I had the chance to sit down for breakfast yesterday with the missionary who will be overseeing our time in Austria. He shared with a group of my teammates and I what life will look like come January, when we traverse to Vienna. Prior to this meeting, I had several conversations with folks around Bethany telling them where I was going, what I was doing, who I was staying with, and so on. Whenever I mentioned this missionary's name, those who had met him before lit up and couldn't stop saying good things about him! Apparently he had left a pretty good impression on them! We also got to hear about some of the ministry work that he and his team are doing with OM East (Operation Mobilization) in Eastern Europe, whose focus is bringing hope to the forgotten peoples of Eurasia. Their aim is to strengthen and serve the local church. It sounds like an awesome group of people with awesome hearts for God. This is the team we get the privilige of working with and living among. From what I gathered, the team is quite multi-faceted with different ministry directives allowing us interns to have an exciting array of opportunities.
What will it be for me? Maybe spending some time with a band of Gypsies in Slovakia, maybe AIDS awareness with teenagers in Hungary, maybe graphic design with the literature division of the ministry, maybe all of the above?? Alas, those questions needn't be pondered here and now, for there is plenty of life to be lived in the present.

"So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. "Matt. 6.34 True 'dat!

Life is mellow around here, just staying in the word, fundraising, fellowshipping with some awesome brothers I met at church, biking a lot, soaking in the vivid fall blazing leaf colors which will soon be no more, drinking tea, smoking my pipe, and 'wondering whispering wisdom that's eternal from the heart to the mind to the hand to the journal'.-josh garrels (if you haven't heard his new cd, buy it asap!)

Peace!