*Repost from old blog 10/30/2021 My team has made a lot of friends here in Kosovo. One friend we made is my age and he runs a coffee shop. The coffee shop has only been open for about a month now. He works a lot as most business owners do. We asked if he and his best friend, who comes by the coffee shop after work a lot, would come over to our Airbnb for dinner one night. Because of the coffee shop, he wouldn’t be...

*Repost from old blog 10/26/2021 Comfort is something that we Americans fight so hard to have. For life to be easy and not have to worry about anything. We do so much to avoid the uncomfortable things in life. Comfort in and of itself isn’t a bad thing. Comfort for periods of time is what people need. However, no growth ever happens in comfortable situations. I don’t even have to give you a Bible verse on that, ju...

*Repost from old blog 10/23/2021 This isn’t a blog I really want to make. I don’t like the idea of sharing my testimony online where anyone can read it. But when the Lord tells you to do something, you do it. So this is me leaving it in His hands to do with it as He wants. Here is the short version of my testimony. I grew up in a Christian home with two loving parents and two younger sisters. We went to church ...

*Repost from old blog 10/14/2021 Albania is a wonderful place. The people here are the most hospitable people that I have ever met. I’m talking, grandma trying to feed you even when you’re not hungry, kind of hospitality. I love that they want to do that for others, you just have to be careful not to take advantage of their hospitality because they have a really hard time saying no to requests. Sometimes going rea...

*Repost from old blog 10/11/2021 The Lord has been doing a lot in my life since I last talked about my personal growth. He keeps taking me back to the book of Ephesians. I swear this book has been everywhere the last two months. I’ve read through the book of Ephesians multiple times now since I’ve gone on the race. As I wrote in my Keys for the Journey blog, which you can read here, He keeps bringing me back to Ep...

*Repost from old blog 10/9/2021 As I’ve mentioned in a previous blog, Albania has been an ATL month. ATL stands for Ask the Lord. That means we pray about where we are going to go in the country and what we are going to do.  So we first prayed about what ATL would look like for Albania during our last week in Romania. My team prayed, asking God where He wanted us to go in Albania. When we prayed about it both m...

*Repost from old blog 10/3/2021 I’ve been out on the race for almost two months now and I haven’t been to a church service since I left Michigan. You know, a Sunday morning church service. Part of that was due to getting covid in Romania so I couldn’t go and the other part is that there hasn’t been a church nearby in Albania to attend. Despite that, this has been the most involved in the church that I’ve ever been...

*Repost from old blog 10/1/2021 This is part two of my blog about hearing God. If you haven’t read part one you can read it here. Another way that God speaks to people is through others. I’m sure a lot of you have experienced going to church and then the pastor preaches on exactly what you are going through. That’s not just a coincidence, that’s God talking to you. It doesn’t just have to be a preacher giving a...

*Repost from old blog 9/29/2021 There is a lot to talk about when it comes to hearing the voice of God. This is why I am making this a two-part blog. Not that two blogs are anywhere near enough to share how you can hear God. This is why people write entire books about this topic and those aren’t even exhaustive because God is too big for us to comprehend. I want to start this off by saying that YOU can hear God...

*Repost from old blog 9/23/2021  I mentioned in my Hope Church blog, which you can read here, that I spent a few hours doing ministry in a Roma village. I want to share a bit more about what that was like. Hope Church received a lot of boxes of clothes and housewares from contacts that they have in Germany. We filled a van with those boxes and drove to a Roma village that was only about 15 minutes outside Craio...