Crossroads Bible Church, Team Holland 2006 Official Blog Site
Dates of our trip: July 12--July 30, 2006.
The team has been assembled and preparing since January, 2006.
Departing Flight Information July 12: British Air Flight #2192, Departing DFW 4:20PM. Arriving London Gatwick 7:20AM. Connecting flight from London Heathrow, British Airways flight #434 to Amsterdam Schipol arriving 1:45PM.
Return Flight Information July 30: British Air Flight #8110, Departing Amsterdam Schipol 7:00AM, arriving London Gatwick 7:10AM. Conntecting flight from London Gatwick, British Airways flight #2193 to Dallas/Fort Worth arriving 2:30PM.
You can also use the links on each of these sights to find out even more information!
In order to prepare for the nature of direct outreach in a postmodern culture, our team read the book "How Should We Live Then" by Colson & Pearcy. It's an excellent read for an introduction to worldviews, their effects and their results.
Some of the most influential books on the subject of postmodernism would be by Francis A. Schaeffer, including "The God Who Is There," "Escape From Reason," & "How Should We Then Live" (which obviously influenced Colson). If you're interested in some basic quotes on postmodernism, you can get them here:
2003: Brent McKinney, Rob Edwards, Deb Stevenson, Jess Semmelbeck, Liz Stevenson, Alicia Garcia, Jude Miniat, Christy Thrasher, Abby Lorenc, Cristina MacGilvra, Matt Eaton, Justin Bascue, Faith Oldenburg, Kayti Edwards, Kim Church.
2006: Brent McKinney, Steve Davis, Debbie Schmidt, Michelle Davis, Thomas Egbert, Schuyler Crabtree, Kayla Russell, Alex Ehrich, Keila Lorenc, Bailey Price, Olivia Schmidt, Maria MacGilvra, Alicia Garcia
First and foremost, this trip is 17 days long and for many team members it's the longest they've been away from home. We'd love to hear from you, so feel free to check back often and comment by clicking on the spaces beneath each entry!
Secondly, pray for the team members and those they'll come in contact with. This ministry is entirely relational...and each day we'll simply be waking up and trying to find someone to share the Gospel with. We'd truly appreciate your thoughts and prayers!
Finally, when this team left, we were short of our financial goals. If you're so inclined to donate, simply go to the church website and click on "contact us," send an e-mail saying you'd like to contribute, and you'll be given the necessary instructions.
Saturday, July 15, 2006
Hi everyone!
I'm in EUROPE! i guess yall knew that. but anyways. so many things to say but i will try not to repeat the other people! yesterday was wonderful. i love the weather as you have heard... and the people are interesting. they aren't openly politely nice but once you introduce yourself and get to know them, they are wondeful. for those of you who know me... i'm an outgoing person but this takes real guts. We literally run up to strangers and say DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH? I'M AMERICAN! I love experiencing a new continent. i love the buildings and i LOVE watching the Lord use our group. Today we went down town. And we "shopped for girls". We met some that didn't speak english (so that didn't work out) we met others who were busy and then we met 2 girls who were 13 years old. There were fairly good at english so myself, schuyler, tom, maria, bailey and alex treated them to McDonalds. I know... I'm in holland eating McDonalds. but that's what these girls wanted! God works in INCREDIBLE ways and we ended up running into 2 more girls that we had introduced ourselves to earlier. They were 14 and so entertaining!!! We ended up chatting about dutch, english, holland, america and the most important... what God meant to them. They didn't really know what to say. they said there must be SOMEONE up there taking control but they weren't sure what or who. It was wonderful and SO much fun. we laughed at their english... they laughed harder at our dutch but we now have 4 names... 4 numbers... 4 email addresses. and the 2 14 year old girls live SO near to our building. I'm so psyched to serve the Lord here. Thank you so much to everyone who supported me. Know that it was worth it. Jesus Christ is alive and is here and i couldn't be more thankful! i'm sorry if this was confusing, or bad grammar, or rambling... but i so love all of you!
kisses to all family and friends... i do miss you! COME TO HOLLAND!
Keila 2:43 PM