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The Bench

Normally I use park benches to stop and tie my shoes while on a run or something. This morning I realized that you can actually stop and sit down on them. What a novel idea for someone to put a park bench in a strategic place. I love living here in Germany. We have a [...]

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Key Business as Mission Components

I have the opportunity to talk with quite a few of our Skybridge Community members. We are indeed a community in various stages of our journey here in Europe. • We are pastors looking at this as a viable way to send workers to the field. • We are marketplace workers looking for a job [...]

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member care

We do a lot of things on these trips. Our days and evenings are quite intense. We keep on the go a lot. We log in a lot of miles each day on foot and in the subway. We also try to go to fun places in the city. We also spend a portion of [...]

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The Second Setting

A few months ago I was doing some training at a conference for new cross cultural workers here in Europe. One of the presenters was Jennie Hatchel who works on a team focusing on the Roma people group. You should check out the cool stuff they do here. She did a presentation entitled “The Second [...]

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Italy

This was the first time that I have visited Milan and Turino. One thing that we have been talking about as we have traveled south  are the similarities and differences of the different cities. We started our journey in Denmark and now we are in France after visits in Germany and Italy. We have noticed [...]

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Cross Cultural Church Planting Assessments, part five

I am in cold and snowy Copenhagen, Denmark. I am not complaining. I actually like it. I really think I am made for this climate. It is actually a remarkable place. I have always been fascinated with the Nordic countries. I arrived this afternoon and toured the city a bit with a guy who will [...]

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Dependence

Today I am writing from Ukraine. This is my first time here. Though it is not extremely far from Southwest Germany it is a very different culture and way of life here. I arrived yesterday at about 2:30 pm after about a one hour wait in line at passport control. It was already getting dark. [...]

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