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So, here we are-- November 28, 2012, a lovely autumn day.  And what are we doing exactly?

We began the morning with prayer and worship together with our team.  After that, Wim went to be a "taal maatje" (language coach) with a man from Ivory Coast (he's been doing this for a few months already).  And now he's busy working together with DTS students cleaning up leaves at one of the Heidebeek buildings.  That's one of the dis/advantages (if you could call it that) of living in a forest-- lots of leaves! ;-)

I've been busy most of the day working on our songbook for the Prayer & Worship Centre.  Since we sing quite a lot, it's really nice to have a good, updated, relevant songbook with both English and Dutch songs.  I'm revamping the style of it a bit, trying to make it more user-friendly and it sure is tedious work!  But it's a much easier than making the songbook in Tbilisi-- having to find songs that are in English, Russian and Georgian... all three of which have different alphabets-- read:  completely different letters, ways of reading, etc.  And then, trying to make all 3 translations of one song fit on one page while trying to make it look as least confusing as possible...ummmm, yeah.  Let's just say that that project makes this project look like a piece of cake! 

But since I'm sitting a lot, I decided to take a walk at coffee break.  Here it's dark when we wake up and dark when we get home (like, it's 4pm now and the sun is setting), so sometimes I feel like I don't experience the day because I'm in the office most of the time!  There are days that I don't really care to "experience"-- especially when it's cold and rainy, as it often is here in The Netherlands... but today was really beautiful and sunny!  I couldn't resist!  (By the way, if you are living in Norway or Sweden or someplace that has like 23 hours of night in the winter, please forgive my complaining...)

Another thing I think is a bit funny, is that miniature ponies are just like normal here.  They're almost like pets, like everyone has them (exaggeration...) and I still feel a bit of that childlike excitement when I see one!  There was a "herd" of them today and so I took a picture...and yes, they are drinking water out of a bathtub... normal, right?!) :-)

Have a nice Wednesday!

"aan Zijn voeten"

God is looking for worshipers that will worship in Spirit and Truth.  We want to be those kind of worshipers!

We've been busy preparing for "aan Zijn voeten - aanbiddingsavond".  We're looking so much forward to spending this time with our beloved Belgians worshipping God!  We're praying that people will be able to find and express their own unique ways of showing love and worship to God, as well as finding their place in the corporate expression of worship!

Let's GO!

The past days have been really great!  The GO Fest has come to Heidebeek, with so many young people ready to go out into the world to represent Christ to the Nations!  Here's a photo of all of the teams (leaders and participants) who will be going out!  The festival is over today, and the teams head out (some have already left).  They'll be gone for 2 weeks and after that they'll come back to gather again for a reporting service.  Can't wait to hear all of the good things God will do through these people!

Wim and I both have been helping out as volunteers:  Wim as a referee for the volleyball tournament, and I with the worship band!  Here's a photo from one of the worship times, I'm there sitting at the piano!  It's been so much fun-- I think being around all of these young people just gives a youthful atmosphere that affects all around!  Feeling very youthful, joyful and excited about life!