i'm going to try to highlight a few of the more exciting things since my last post.

two weeks ago (ish) i went on a middle school retreat, we took 20 something kids from here and went to camp with over 100 middle school kids from around germany, it was kind of nuts.



pictured above is the group of girls that i had for the weekend. i took them because i like to have the toughest group at camp...and goodness they were. only moments after we'd got to camp they had picked a fight with a group of girls from another group...lets just say there was some serious name calling, but i was determined to not let Satan have them that easy so me and the leader of the other group had an intervention and for the most part it worked. we had a good time and we laughed a lot and i wish i could say that they all left loving Jesus...but they didnt. it's one of the greatest pains for me to walk with kids to the feet of Jesus and have them say 'no thanks.' but i trust that the Lord isnt done with these girls so Jesus and i will continue to pursue them in love for as long as the military keeps us in the same place. pray for us.

on a similar but different note this is cameron (right) and hayden (left). hayden is one of my favorite middle school boys (he's quite sarcastic which i think is why i like him) and cameron is one of our student leaders for high school (he's on our SALT team) and we brought him to be a leader on the middle school trip, he did amazing. like seriously, he was such a good leader. he told me that he thinks he wants to do something like this next year when he's at college. (and a fun fact about cameron: he's an amazing dancer and was in sierra's two step video...oh and for those of you vbc-ers he reminds me of jason hicks...like they are kind of the same person, just cameron is a little younger)


i had our SALT team (service and leadership training...aka student leaders) plan a club and they planned a club called 'fight club' i thought it was quite clever. above are a couple pictures from it.

on friday after chaperoning a middle school dance (it was right after school, how strange is that?) we had ice skating with the high school kids.


and then saturday i took the day off and played. it was great, we went to trier and played at a park, then drank tea from the third floor of my favorite tea shop in downtown and then later that night i went out country dancing with some friends.



and finally today was thanksgiving olympics at club



tomorrow (wed) i'm going to a thanksgiving dinner at the hospitality house with a bunch of other people and then super early thursday morning i leave for morocco for a couple days with some friends, should be fun but please pray for our safety.
hope you all have a joyful thanksgiving.