For those of you who are reading this for the mission updates, there's been a change: my mission team now has it's own blog, and that's where I'll be posting everything. Check it out:
http://www.airdrie09.blogspot.com/
Anyways, enjoy the new blog!
-Joel
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Arrived!
I've arrived!
After the grueling (not really) set of airports and flights (Kansas City-Chicago-London/Heathrow-Edinburgh), I'm finally in Airdrie, Scotland. I didn't sleep much on the flight over the Atlantic like I had planned, but hopefully tonight I'll be plenty tired enough to get some good sleep and get in to the right schedule for Scotland. Oh, and the Mountain Dew made it over okay, too. :P
In Chicago, I, Brett, and Amelia met up with 3 other team members - Ben, Heather, and Jacque. From there, we traveled together the rest of the way. The only other team member here currently (3:45 in the Afternoon)is Stephen McCollum, our team leader. The other three team members will be joining us later - Joe and Maggie will get here this Saturday, and Staci will arrive in the middle of June.
We met with Andrew Quigley, the pastor here at the Airdrie Reformed Presbyterian Church, and tomorrow, we'll start planning for the school presentations that we'll be doing.
I can't write too much - I haven't found a wall outlet adapter for my computer to charge with yet, and my battery is low. Here are some pics of the team members I have so far:
Stephen McCollum - our Fearless Leader
Brett Schmidt
Amelia Ward and Jacque Decker
After the grueling (not really) set of airports and flights (Kansas City-Chicago-London/Heathrow-Edinburgh), I'm finally in Airdrie, Scotland. I didn't sleep much on the flight over the Atlantic like I had planned, but hopefully tonight I'll be plenty tired enough to get some good sleep and get in to the right schedule for Scotland. Oh, and the Mountain Dew made it over okay, too. :P
In Chicago, I, Brett, and Amelia met up with 3 other team members - Ben, Heather, and Jacque. From there, we traveled together the rest of the way. The only other team member here currently (3:45 in the Afternoon)is Stephen McCollum, our team leader. The other three team members will be joining us later - Joe and Maggie will get here this Saturday, and Staci will arrive in the middle of June.
We met with Andrew Quigley, the pastor here at the Airdrie Reformed Presbyterian Church, and tomorrow, we'll start planning for the school presentations that we'll be doing.
I can't write too much - I haven't found a wall outlet adapter for my computer to charge with yet, and my battery is low. Here are some pics of the team members I have so far:
Stephen McCollum - our Fearless Leader
Brett Schmidt
Heather Miller
Ben Gordon
Amelia Ward and Jacque Decker
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Aye, Scotland!
Hear ye, hear ye: I'm going to Scotland.
"Scotland?!?", you say? Aye, Scotland. I'll being going over there for a month on a RP Missions trip to Airdrie (near Edinburgh). I will leave tomorrow afternoon, and be back in the US on June 25th. While I'm there, I'll be using my blog to post pictures and updates of what's going on. Stay tuned for some really good stuff!
What I, and 9 others, will be doing while we are over there will be several things:
Literature distribution - going door to door and handing out flyers and pamphlets about the Airdrie Reformed Presbyterian Church, etc. This will be the toughest part for me- I've never truly done door-to-door stuff before. Pray for me!
School Presentations - These will be (as far as I can tell) mini-Vacation Bible Schools. I don't know what age groups or schools we will be at, so keep posted to find out!
Painting, Gardening, etc. - We will also be doing some manual labor around the Airdrie Church. Don't know what all that contains.
Working with the youth - the Church Youth don't have a lot of contact with Christian peers, so we'll hang out/work with them some, too. I really look forward to this part. I'll be taking Mountain Dew over there, because the youth really like it- but it's not available in the UK.
So, post a comment if you have questions, etc. I won't post every day, but I'll post somewhere around twice a week.
See ya'll later!
"Scotland?!?", you say? Aye, Scotland. I'll being going over there for a month on a RP Missions trip to Airdrie (near Edinburgh). I will leave tomorrow afternoon, and be back in the US on June 25th. While I'm there, I'll be using my blog to post pictures and updates of what's going on. Stay tuned for some really good stuff!
What I, and 9 others, will be doing while we are over there will be several things:
Literature distribution - going door to door and handing out flyers and pamphlets about the Airdrie Reformed Presbyterian Church, etc. This will be the toughest part for me- I've never truly done door-to-door stuff before. Pray for me!
School Presentations - These will be (as far as I can tell) mini-Vacation Bible Schools. I don't know what age groups or schools we will be at, so keep posted to find out!
Painting, Gardening, etc. - We will also be doing some manual labor around the Airdrie Church. Don't know what all that contains.
Working with the youth - the Church Youth don't have a lot of contact with Christian peers, so we'll hang out/work with them some, too. I really look forward to this part. I'll be taking Mountain Dew over there, because the youth really like it- but it's not available in the UK.
So, post a comment if you have questions, etc. I won't post every day, but I'll post somewhere around twice a week.
See ya'll later!
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