Apparently, Deophobic is a word that was made up by John Cooper of Skillet. Basically it means to have a twisted misplaced view of God and to be afraid of Him. This word is in a song that we've been working a drama to for use here in Germany. It's been a while since I've been able to tell any of you what is up. We have just started doing programs here in Germany, mainly in schools. It's strange in that it feels a lot like the schools in Russia, but there's a splash of England into the mix.
We've had a bit of time here and there to relax and to reflect on the last while travelling overseas. I should be writing more than I am. Songs that is. There is so much inspiration and I seem to miss out on it most of the time lyrically. It's been fun to expand myself in music. I've been practicing drumming once in a while, and just two days ago I was able to try to play a 5 string bass. It's a lot of fun having a lower string to fiddle with. O.o
It's been a great time here...
We've been staying in a church here and it's packed full of instruments, chairs, tables and chairs... But one thing that I've enjoyed specifically is the interactive prayer room. By interactive I mean that there are stations with visual aids to remind us to pray for specific things. For example, there's a place with Israel's flag, to remind us to pray for the Jewish nation. Things like that. It's been really great to be able to consciencely spend more time in prayer. That's been really good.
Well, I'm going to head out for now... Some of the others are needing the computer. Feel free to check out AJ's webpage as it has the most recent everything on it...(How he aquires time to do this emailing blog stuff I'll never know...)
O.o
Have a great one! May God's grace and peace be with you!
Romans 6:15-23
Monday, March 26, 2007
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Vas?
ThaT means 'what?' In German. We're all safe here and doing well. Though I should have gotten more sleep. We went to a youth event last night with a german leader who spent a year in Winnipeg, MB. So now she has this native german accent, and it's so fun to hear her talk. Wow... Anyways, it's all good. We have to go for breakfast now. Thank you for your prayers! Grace and Peace...
J
J
Monday, March 19, 2007
Implied Meanings
Well, here we are in the last days of the United Kingdom. Wales has been good... :D We went to the ocean yesterday, and that's where these pics are mainly from. Thanks to everyone for your prayers. It's been a trying time here. Always, always busy. And I know it'll be busy in Germany as well. I sure hope God gives us the strength to keep on going. I know He will. ^_*
I'm going to miss all the RE classes. That was one of my favorite things to do here. There are so many misconceptions about Christianity that I am glad to have the classes simply to correct some of the strange things that I've heard. At the same time, it's been interesting to learn more about other kids' beliefs. Everything from Atheism to Muslim. All along the line, the talks have been interesting. It's something I really will miss.
I hope that us as the Church of North America will be able to catch the same passion as the Church here in England and Wales that we've been involved with. They have been hard out for Jesus everywhere we've gone, and it's been so refreshing despite our busy schedules.
Anyways, again, thank you to everyone, and alas, I must be off again. Hope you enjoy the pics. Wow... God is awesome... I have never experienced such a powerful wind...
:D
You can check out more pics at my photobucket link...(the same one with my London pics)
Grace and Peace
P.S.
Happy Birthday Grandpa Witherow! And for anyone wondering, I now have a sister website up for this one. http://encaitar777.multiply.com
check it out! :D
Thursday, March 15, 2007
The Attempt to kill Jaimal
http://lastchancetobreathe.multiply.com/
Yeah...check out this link here! AJ, from my team has posted up literally hundreds of our pics! :D
Yeah...check out this link here! AJ, from my team has posted up literally hundreds of our pics! :D
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Mock-Tees On March 7
I’m alive.
The sun is shining and the air smells like spring. Roadwork is in full swing, and people are complaining about it. We’re definitely back in England! This is our 2nd last week here in the UK. We just finished our time in Chepstow and now we’re in a town just north of Birmingham called, Walsall. It sounds very close to Warsaw because of the accent. It’s interesting to say! Give it a go if you want… Wool-sool. Interesting. Anyways, we did some open ministry yesterday. We were out in the town square and we did some music to have people stop for a moment and listen and then there were a good number of people out there giving out tracts. It was good, but wow, it can be hard. For those who regularly do that kind of thing. I salute you. It’s hard work. It’s been interesting to think about our time in Russia and the UK so far… I’ve been trying to think of what it will be that I remember most importantly. I think that will be prayer. Prayer has been so important. And we never ever spend enough time with God. I don’t anyways, and that’s something I need to work on disciplining all the more. Keeping my eyes on Christ is one of those extremely simple and extremely difficult things to do. But I’ll keep trying, and I’ll just have to trust that Jesus will give me the patience and discipline that I need… and the passion to spend the time with Him that I should.
We will be doing a few different things here in Walsall, such as ‘improv drama’…making stuff up on the spot. But we’ve never really done that kind of thing. I think it’s because they think we’re like a group that has been here called, Life Force. So we’re either going to have to get better at our improv drama, or, we need to let them know we might be doing things a little different. We’ll see how that goes.
It’s been an interesting time here today. We visited with a good deal of elderly folk. It was really a good time. One lady told how she had very bad memory. Therefore I let her name me something more memorable. Fred. Yup and get this! She remembered James because she was calling me Fred! Weird. That is how my mind works sometimes. I was able to play one of my songs for them, but I played it in two parts. Halfway through the song I got a real bad nosebleed. lol, that was interesting. I was able to fix up my nose before I got blood on anything so that was good. Unfortunately it was rather nasty at slowing down and therefore it made doing any songs we had left and one drama a little more interesting for me. That and I suddenly couldn’t pronounce certain words. Words like time, came out as timeb. Or habby instead of happy. Rhys made sure to remind me of this fact or factb every couple minutes. It was all in good fun ^_^.
But yeah. For anyone who is wondering what we would love prayer for, we need prayer for energy. We’re very tired. But until we completely burn out we’re going to go hard out for Christ! And so long as we are relying on Him for our strength we shouldn’t burn out. For his yoke is easy and his burden is light. He will carry us through the hard times and stay with us through the long stretches. It’s all good. :)
Anyways, take care everyone. May God grant to you His Grace and Peace to you today.
Brother J.
***THE NEXT DAY***MARCH 8***
Today was long and trying. But God was good. We did some drama things with the kids in the school, and they all enjoyed it very much. Coralie was able to catch up on her rest and so we're going to be going at this again tommorrow... with I might add, an extra hour of sleep. :D That will be nice.
We are still as a whole very tired. Fatigued... But we're hoping to be renewed. We'll see how that goes. Keep praying! God is working.
Grace and Peace
P.S. We had a good bible study tonight... I now have many things to ponder as I await the JWs who we are hoping will stop by tommorrow night. (Rhys met them when he was sick here at the house and they wanted to come back with an Elder to talk about some of the things that Rhys asked them about... it should prove interesting. I really hope they come!) O.o
The sun is shining and the air smells like spring. Roadwork is in full swing, and people are complaining about it. We’re definitely back in England! This is our 2nd last week here in the UK. We just finished our time in Chepstow and now we’re in a town just north of Birmingham called, Walsall. It sounds very close to Warsaw because of the accent. It’s interesting to say! Give it a go if you want… Wool-sool. Interesting. Anyways, we did some open ministry yesterday. We were out in the town square and we did some music to have people stop for a moment and listen and then there were a good number of people out there giving out tracts. It was good, but wow, it can be hard. For those who regularly do that kind of thing. I salute you. It’s hard work. It’s been interesting to think about our time in Russia and the UK so far… I’ve been trying to think of what it will be that I remember most importantly. I think that will be prayer. Prayer has been so important. And we never ever spend enough time with God. I don’t anyways, and that’s something I need to work on disciplining all the more. Keeping my eyes on Christ is one of those extremely simple and extremely difficult things to do. But I’ll keep trying, and I’ll just have to trust that Jesus will give me the patience and discipline that I need… and the passion to spend the time with Him that I should.
We will be doing a few different things here in Walsall, such as ‘improv drama’…making stuff up on the spot. But we’ve never really done that kind of thing. I think it’s because they think we’re like a group that has been here called, Life Force. So we’re either going to have to get better at our improv drama, or, we need to let them know we might be doing things a little different. We’ll see how that goes.
It’s been an interesting time here today. We visited with a good deal of elderly folk. It was really a good time. One lady told how she had very bad memory. Therefore I let her name me something more memorable. Fred. Yup and get this! She remembered James because she was calling me Fred! Weird. That is how my mind works sometimes. I was able to play one of my songs for them, but I played it in two parts. Halfway through the song I got a real bad nosebleed. lol, that was interesting. I was able to fix up my nose before I got blood on anything so that was good. Unfortunately it was rather nasty at slowing down and therefore it made doing any songs we had left and one drama a little more interesting for me. That and I suddenly couldn’t pronounce certain words. Words like time, came out as timeb. Or habby instead of happy. Rhys made sure to remind me of this fact or factb every couple minutes. It was all in good fun ^_^.
But yeah. For anyone who is wondering what we would love prayer for, we need prayer for energy. We’re very tired. But until we completely burn out we’re going to go hard out for Christ! And so long as we are relying on Him for our strength we shouldn’t burn out. For his yoke is easy and his burden is light. He will carry us through the hard times and stay with us through the long stretches. It’s all good. :)
Anyways, take care everyone. May God grant to you His Grace and Peace to you today.
Brother J.
***THE NEXT DAY***MARCH 8***
Today was long and trying. But God was good. We did some drama things with the kids in the school, and they all enjoyed it very much. Coralie was able to catch up on her rest and so we're going to be going at this again tommorrow... with I might add, an extra hour of sleep. :D That will be nice.
We are still as a whole very tired. Fatigued... But we're hoping to be renewed. We'll see how that goes. Keep praying! God is working.
Grace and Peace
P.S. We had a good bible study tonight... I now have many things to ponder as I await the JWs who we are hoping will stop by tommorrow night. (Rhys met them when he was sick here at the house and they wanted to come back with an Elder to talk about some of the things that Rhys asked them about... it should prove interesting. I really hope they come!) O.o
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Eclipse
Behold the lunar eclipse. We had a great time watching this thing overtop of Wales here. We had seen a full moon heading out to our last program while we are here in Chepstow, and on the way into the house when we got home, Vicki pulled me back outside to see the moon half gone, and then it kept on disappearing. Soon enough, it had turned to an amazing shade of red. It was something else. Just like the rest of this week. We've been doing RE classes the whole time basically and we've had a couple programs. Last night we were all very overwhelmed and very tired. But God gave us the unity and strength to finish strong. And he did work! I had a good but short talk with a couple of the guys, and everyone there I think was touched by God in different ways. Thank you to all who have been praying. This was one of those time that I got into a lot more detail in my testimony. It was amazing to see how simply telling people where I've come from can help others around the world. I hope God keeps on working as he has been. Please pray that our team can soon be refreshed and be able to get more energy into everything we have been doing. We're all running kind of low right now. Thanks so much for your prayers!
Grace and Peace
¬James
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