The Adventure Keeps On Trucking Day 5

Firstly I would like to thank all who have written messages to me today. I’m afraid Ann you will be the most disappointed and you will find out why a little later. All of your messages have lifted me today and I have been in a much more chipper today than i was feeling last night.

So I woke up this morning, looked out of the window and saw it was raining!!!! Rain = no busking today!!!! Sorry to disappoint Ann but it will be on tomorrow I have been assured by Hans. I’m not sure wether he will stop the rain himself or construct some sort of marquee to cover me while I’m outside?? He is german and very efficient.

The Day kicked off with another awesome breakfast and then off to the electrical store where Hans insisted on getting me a new memory stick as mine broke yesterday. Whilst sitting outside the store waiting for it to open we got chatting about the biggest challenges he faces with discipling his young volunteers. I won’t go into it now because I am aware that some of them are reading this. That conversation led onto chatting about “More to Life” and the idea that “changed lives authenticate the message of Jesus”. This was interesting to him and we changed our plans for the morning after that so we could chat for a couple of hours about the training and then started dreaming about other things which I won’t go into now because I should probably chat to my bosses before putting it on my blog.

After that we went to the Hot where lunch was being prepared. A guy called Aljo told me he hated me because I didn’t put him in my blog so now I have (Aljo was the first and last person to get in my blog through asking!! I don’t want this to end up like signing of autographs because i might need a whole team of people on it!!!!) Fro lunch I had this top notch soup stuff with what I can only describe as two giant tortellini. I taste awesome tho. Then a young lad called Julian (not King Julian!!!) came in and we got chatting even though both of our opposite language was pretty bad. I beat him at FIFA 11, then demolished him at Kicker. Just to clarify Kicker is the german name for Fussball or table football. He was fairly distraught but you learn nothing through winning all the time!!! After that some of his mates came in and I was able to start up a conversation about Jesus out of nowhere which was cool. Marco a youth volunteer translated.The conversation pretty much started because I started talking about 1 of their rosaries. I asked them if they knew what it meant and what it represents and they did. I asked them if they knew how brutal it was?? and they said no, so when i asked if they would like to see a short film about it they were very up for it. I showed them part of the bbc passion clip of Jesus being crucified and then they had more question to ask. They were very grateful of me being able to explain about it to them.

This evening was the second installment of the broadcast about Faith or trust. The guy talked about how we can trust God because he became human to reach out to us. He talked about that in order to be able to trust someone you need to be able to give them a chance to prove they can be trusted. It was again just ok but could have been better I think. Again I played some songs before and led a time of sung worship after the broadcast. I could really feel God was moving in that place tonight.

The adventure usually stops there but tonight I have been into Bochum with some of the guys for a drink and something to eat. We went to a cool bar called Three Sixty. The beer was great and the pizza was huge. The company was great too I spent most of my night chatting to and getting to know Tine and Jule.

I Love Germany!!!!

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It’s 2.15 here and I am falling asleep writing this!!!!

Chat to everyone soon.

Big Love