Monday, July 20, 2009

Monday Morning July 20

Today will bring many opportunities. We are participating in a coffee outreach to the party-all-night crowd beginning at 7:00AM. After that we will be doing our cookie outreach to the sanitation workers around noon. Some friends from a local church will join us for this. Finally in the afternoon we will be doing another cookie outreach to the tram and bus drivers.

So far we have over 800 bags of cookies to distribute. These come from one church, our colleagues and all Lucy has baked. Another church has promised to provide cookies and workers to help with the sanitation workers. Just got word yesterday that another church may help with a few more bags of cookies.

You have helped by providing the bags. Our friends are amazed at them. There is nothing like them here and they comment on how pretty they are. They are also excited about how many you have provided. The gifts of bags are speaking clearly to local believers about being community and the desire to be light in the darkness.

Pray for strength. Today will be a long day on the street and it is only Monday.

Yesterday we took the team to worship at De Burg, the church providing the cookies for the tram and bus drivers. After church we had a nice lunch on the Korenmarkt and then came back to our apartment to bag more cookies.

We will try to keep you posted through this blog about the latest news, prayer requests and how God is moving.

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