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.
Sunday, July 16, 2006
This morning we went to Dr. Haye's church which was a pretty cool experience. The sermon had to be translated to us as a guest speaker from Spain was speaking in dutch. The songs were mostly the same as ours except also obviously in dutch. It was really interesting because we so often get wrapped up in our little flowerplex world that we forget that there are thousands of other people in other countries and other languages worshipping the same God in a very similar way.
But at the same time we have to remember the millions of people that do not worship our God and don't even know Him. Which is exactly why we are here.
We've met about six different girls so far at the market ranging from ages 13-16. Two were Christians, two said they believed in God, and the other two claimed to not know what they believed. We tried our best to discuss our religion and the reasons we believe the things that we do but I really don't think we've made much of a difference.
I guess the important thing to remember is that we started relationships and got a few phone numbers so that hopefully we will continue to develop these friendships and create more oppertunities to talk about God.
I dont know. I guess its just frustrating that there is nothing really all that exciting to report. And I'm surprised at how quickly I started to feel homesick. Not necessiarily for my friends and family, thought I miss them all terribly, but more for the familiarity of America and English and Dollars and Fast food. WHATEVVVVVV...two more weeks. I'm still pretty amped about what's to come.
Going to the beach today, hopefully. Don't be jealous!
And keep up the good work on the comments! I dominated everyone's face yesterday with number of comments and I'd hate to see it end now. :)
PEACE OUT.
bAiLeY 10:49 AM