New Job

A week and a half after I get home, and I have a job already!!! God is so good! The week before I left for the summer I was freaking out about not having a job. I had quit my job, and told them that I was not coming back. I wanted to go back because honestly that would be the easy thing to do, but I felt like God was saying no. So, I told them I would not be returning. Well, the Friday before we got home, Kyli and I were on the bus to Tallinn to fly to Amsterdam. I was checking my messages, since the bus had WIFI, wireless internet. My friend had sent me a message that a position had opened up in the worship department at my church. So I emailed my friend, Larry, who works in that department to get the scoop. He said that they were interviewing and to get in there to fill out an application as soon as possible. We got back Wed., and Thursday morning I went in to fill out an application and had an interview also. AMAZING!!
SOOOO, my job will be the Admin. Assistant to Clarence Church, the worship pastor at Vineyard Church of Columbus. I am very excited because of his vision, and his vision for me. I will be doing mostly administrative things, and also supporting two other guys in the worship department. I am still in shock, but I am so excited to see how God grows me, and my worship leading. To be around these caliber of worship leaders is going to be such a blessing! Please be praying for me as I start my new job, and that God continues to grow me. My desire is to be where God wants me, doing the things He has gifted me to do. I am excited for what He has in store for me.

Kyli's first day of School

August 19 was Kyli's first day of school. She started 5th grade!!!!! It is so crazy how time flies. Everyone is also saying that she has grown so much over the summer. She will probably pass me up soon! That is not saying a whole lot though!! :) She like her teacher so far. He seems to be the best 5th grade teacher, which I am excited about!

She was also so excited to get home!!! She could hardly contain herself with excitement! She seems to be adjusting to life back in the states very quickly!!

Amsterdam

Rusted Bicycle in the canal
Beautiful Flower growing in the street
One of the many canals in Amsterdam
Can I say Bicycles??? I have never seen so many bicycles!!!

Dutch Windmill

Anke & Bart
Me, Anke, Annika & Abe
Haarlam

We left Estonia on August 8 and flew to Amsterdam! We stayed there for about 4 1/2 days. I was excited to see the city since my sister had lived there for almost a year. It is also very cool to see another place in Europe since I have really only seen Estonia. Like I mentioned before, my sister lived here for about a year so we met up with one of her old friends, Anke and her husband and 2 kids. They picked us up from the airport on Friday, gave us dinner Friday night then took us to our hotel. Then Anke came and picked us up Saturday morning, and we spent the entire day with them. She took us to see the windmills, we then went to have lunch at their house. Then we went into Haarlam which is right out side of Amsterdam, where they live. We saw where my sister worked, lived and went to church. Then we all went to the beach of the North Sea, walked on the beach and then ate dinner there. It was such a blessing to be shown around by someone who knows the area. AND, they made us lunch and dinner, and took us out to dinner. They were so generous to us, which was such a blessing.

The other days we spent walking around and exploring Amsterdam. We got to go to NEMO, which is a science center like COSI in Columbus, if you are familiar with COSI. We also took a canal tour which I really enjoyed. Kyli was not so excited about a boat ride, but she did ok. Amsterdam is definitely a beautiful city. I loved the water and canals. If you ever get a chance to visit, I would recommend it.

Interns & Debriefing

Lake Peepsi




Scott, Brett & Evelin



Scott, Brett, Joel, Kyli & I


I wanted to show a picture of Chris who is in the red shirt. Chris led our intern team all summer!




The last week we were in Estonia our intern team went to a Hostel by Lake Peepsi, the largest lake in Estonia. It was a great time of just hanging out, spending time alone with God and talking through the summer. It was great to take some time alone with God to just listen to what He has next for me. It was also good to reflect back on what God did during this summer, and to see His hand in what we did!

VIIMSI, so beautiful

These are such beautiful pictures. After camp last week we went to Tallinn with the Atlanta team which is 2 hours from Tartu. Since we were up there we stayed with a girl, Kertu, that was at our first camp. She lives in a little town about 15 minutes from Tallinn called Viimsi. It is right along the coast of the Baltic Sea and these are pictures! I think this is officially one of my favorite places in Estonia. It was so beautiful! And, we got to swim in the sea off of a private beach!! Such a great time!!!

CAMP #3

People we so sad to leave that some cried a whole puddle of tears!!
Our Master's of Ceremony!! They did awesome!
Two of my favorite people of camp - Maria & Liis
This is Gunnur iwth his daughters, who is the pastor of the
church in Rakvere where the campers were from!!
The infamous leg game of camp! Quite painful at times!!

The Atlanta Team
We are so cool!!! :)
One of the best stories of all summer!
Kyli and Kaylee, two of them
SO SAAAADDDD SAYING GOOD-BYE

This week of camp was a great end to the summer! We had a team from Atlanta come, and they did a great job. God did some really cool things this week! The Estonian kids were so open, more than normal. There was one girl that God just loved on all week through so many of us. She loved music and singing so that was how I personally connected with her. We did worship every morning and she helped with that singing worship songs! Pretty crazy!! So cool though. She had been through some pretty hard things, but God just used us to love her and help her to lower some of her walls. She said that when she went home that her mom was going to not know her because she actually has emotions now. Such a God thing!!!! There was also another guy, pictured in this last picture labeled "SO SAAAADDD..", and his whole purpose of coming to camp was to disprove Christianity. By the end of the week he was saying that he needs to know more about this God because his friends need this God. Huge step for him. He also agreed to meet with one of the missionaries here on a monthly basis. So SWEET!!!!

So now that all of the camps are over we are just trying to connect with as many students as we can before we leave. Then next Monday we leave for 4 days for summer debriefing with the intern team. And, on Friday, August 8, we leave Estonia!!! This summer has flown by!!!

Some Pictures from Camp #2

Here are some pictures from camp number 2. We had a team from California here. It was pretty crazy because we ended the first camp on Friday afternoon. Then we went back to Tartu for about 24 hours, and had to head back to camp for the next week. It was a little easier since all of the interns were together this week, but we were still really pretty tired. We just got back yesterday from the second week. We now have 2 days completely off which is very nice. Then on Wednesday we are back to work to get ready for our last week of camp. We will have to split up again since we have 2 camps in the same week!! Our time is half over though which is pretty crazy! Thanks for reading our blog!! Peace to you all!!