Ordnung muss sein!

Ordnung! Ordnung muss sein! (There must be order!) This past week we met with our Affinity Group. We had opportunity to learn new stuff from our Member Care team about how to better get along in our new setting. Our Affinity Group Trainer - who just happens to be our new supervisor while we get started being real live missionaries spoke with us on the topic of "iWitness". From those discussions, we'll be working out our family core values. David will also be our mentor and guide. Sounds like a lot for one person to handle . . . but he seems like a pretty capable guy in the Lord. As a group, we shared with each other about how our people group (in our case, the Germans) view their world - when we get to the field, we'll have the opportunity to test out our research and see if we were correct. We will be a part of an online community after we get to the field so that we continue the training process together as a "small group." We also discussed several issues that we will face on the field. It is better to know them up front as opposed to waking up one morning with them slapping you in the face!
It was a great time to grow Spiritually and in the knowledge of what we are going to be doing once we finally land. Speaking of which, once we get to Lorrach, we'll have about a week to get our feet on the ground before we start language school. We'll be attending the Goethe Institute in Freiburg im Breisgau . . . a tough school, but then we NEED to be correct in our language. We'll ride the train to get there and back which if we are disciplined will be a great opportunity to get our homework done before we even get home.
Our apartment is waiting for us to arrive. We'll even have visitors. Some of our teammates from Munich will be in the area for training and will stop by and see us before they leave to go and do other stuff.

I looked online this morning to check on our flight information to Germany. From what I could see on the TWO websites I looked at, the booking for our flight to Germany may have been canceled! Please join us in prayer that it will get straightened out in the next couple of days - we are supposed to fly on Sept 24.

We are going to Washington DC this week on a field trip to practice the stuff that we have been learning. Please pray for a great trip for all of us here at FPO.

Please share the following prayer requests praying God’s Word from Philippians 2:14-16
Pray for us that we will do all things without grumbling or disputing.
Pray for us that we will prove ourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation.
Pray for us that we will appear among the German People as lights in the world, holding fast the word of life so that in the day of Christ you will have reason to glory because we did not run in vain nor toil in vain.

Tune in again next time when you will hear our hero, say, "Gollybobhowdy folks did we ever have an exciting adventure in Missions in the Washington DC metro area . . ."