Guten Tag Aus Deutschland!!

Hello everyone!! I`m here in Germany! And my oh my it is soo beautiful here! Alot has been happening to me since the New Year! I had an absolutely wonderful time at the New Years festival in Hamar Norway. All of YWAM Norway was gathered for a pretty epic time of teaching prayer and worship :D What I really enjoyed was the 24/7 Worship on New Years day! It was so great to let yourself worship till 4 oclock in the morning until you passed out from exaustion and knowing you could sleep the next day. So yes after the main worship ending at 4, a group of us went to the prayer room where we all continued to worship (either awake or asleep). I remember sitting there looking around the room full of people I didn`t know from all the different bases around Norway and thinking these people are my friends and family. The unity in the room was overwhelming!

So yes, it was an absolutely great time of listening to God`s voice. He has really been prodding me forward and giving me new and fresh ideas about my future. I was really encouraged and prepared to keep prodding forward with my walk with Him. Heart surgery is the best!

So now I`m here in Menzingen Germany! The first week we have visted 4 different schools in the neighboring villages doing programs for 9 different classes. We`ve been doing two different programs. One Anti-Mobbing program which the Germany team did last year, and a new Violence Prevention program for the first school. It`s been so much fun! And we`ve had alot of great discussions with several of the highschool students. I really think we`ve made alot of them think and encouraged them with God`s truths. I`ve met so many young people this week, when we ride the train to and fro from the villages Its almost impossible not to see someone you already met.

We also met with the Mayor of Kraichtal which is a city made of 9 neighboring villages, Menzingen being one of them. He was a nice man! Showed the same program as last year, as I was told :p Free pretzels and apple fritzer was really nice too! So it was very cool to be able to pray for the City Council there and inform him of the youth work we do during the project week.

The weekend was soooor nice! We traveled to Heidelburg which is by far one of my favorite European cities. It`s absolutely beautiful! Wonderful streets and just a great atmosphere! We toured the castle there and also took a walk on the Philosophers Walk. Very icy and steep, but a very beautiful walking path overlooking the Rhine river and the Castle. We also had starbucks!! Coolest starbucks ever with a tower room... ahh that was cool! We don`t have them in Norway, so the Norwegians were very excited to say the least...

And that brings me to this week! This week we will be doing youth workshops with 80 youth from the neighboring villages here at the local state church. It`s an all week program with workshops a meal and fellowship! It`s sooo much fun! Tonight I had the first testimony which went really well and I felt like it broke the ice for God to do some great stuff in their hearts :) And It seems I`ve been recruited for the worship team so that was very fun as well! Haha I`m a little confused about tomorrow however... I`m supposed to be cooking bread with this German fellow that doesn`t know any English. We will see how that goes!! :D It will be an adventure that`s for sure!

The youth here are so much fun to hang out with! And I Can`t wait to see all that God has in store for us this week.

That`s a quick update! I hope you are all doing well! Praying and missing all of you!

Go Under The Mercy
-Sam