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.
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Moving Day
We are moving today :( . We have to move into a new scouting building because the Philly team is coming today and they will be taking control of our building. So for the ones who are not usually up this early, up they come! I'm kinda glad we are moving into a new building because it will give us a change of pace which if you haven't noticed from the last couple blogs, yesterday was definitely not a walk in the park kind of day. I love the morning time, I've been sleeping a little longer the past two nights because I've actually been able to sleep but I love having time in the morning when there are just two or three people up and we are all quiet. I need time in the morning to gear up I guess. I can't jump out of bed and run around like a crazy person. I need a cup of coffee, maybe listen to music maybe read the bible, usually doing both. Its my routine.
Last night was so funny. We were all in the girls room and if yall haven't heard about jasper yet, oh man! Jasper is this head that we found hanging on the wall when we first moved in. His eyes are like bug eyes, he has "guts"hanging out of his neck (Its just red paper but its still gross), and jasper is just misfortunate looking. Well, we lost him a couple days ago, and we had NO clue where he went. Then he flew through the window yesterday and we all cheered because jasper was back! wahoo! Then the same idea popped into all of our heads. Put jasper in Keila's bed! See, jasper LOVES keila but keila isn't too fond of jasper. At all. So Alex hides him under her pillow, and when she was moving stuff around on her bed, jasper gave her a little surprise. The look on her face was PRICELESS! It was awesome. She ran out of the room screaming. Hehe.
Well I have to go, its cleaning time. I love you all and thank you so much for praying for my mom, it means so much.
Maria 6:32 AM