I'm 21 Years Young

Week 2 in Berlin.

Fri 22nd: Like the Friday before was a chilled to start, as we did not have anything on till youth church in evening. Was a really quiet service, had the Swedish YWAM team lead the service through. After the service we went to an 18th birthday party of one of the young people from youth church. We spent most of the evening in his living room playing again Texas Hold'em. I was also given an opportunity to hear a woman called Jenny's testimony, which was really inspiring. Gabe was also able to share the gospel with one of the young people. Afterwards we got a cab home and half watched a film.

Sat 23rd: I woke up and felt called to go into Boxhagener to speak to Isa, which I arranged to do and invited him along to church in Mower Park which he accepted. The rest of the day was spent together with Kim, Bre, Gabe, Thilo, Anna D, Heidi, Steve and Patrick. We had a BBQ in the park and hung out together. In the evening true to form we played Texas Hold'em with a group of friends that I won!

Sun 24th: Unfortunately Isa did not come to church with us, but service was a really great time together, we has the Homestead, Derby and Swedish Teams this time so we had a bigger presence in the park, plus there was another American outreach team in the park so they came and worshiped with us. In the evening we went to a service that was held at a church based in an old Turkish restaurant. (First time I have ever worshiped from behind a bar!) It was also the first time we meet the Swiss YWAMers

Mon 25th: Berlin DTS day, went to Boxhagener with free hugs/free prayer/Jesus signs which was so effective the original plan was to go to Boxy to see some of the friends we have there like Isa and then to head to train station with our signs but God changed all that and we did not even get that far. Hard to explain in word how it all happened but we ended up on a street corner with Louise (a Venaswalen man from Boxy) him, Israel and Erik had free hug signs and they got loads and behind them was Markus and Irina with Jesus Revolution type signs and behind them was Bre, Kim and myself with free prayer signs. So as people walked by they got the love (hug), then the reason for the love (Jesus) and then the option to receive the love (pray). That evening was spent in with Bre and Heidi as Gabe had gone to band practice.

Tue 26th: In the morning I went with Kim to print some flyers, before we went to Alexander Platz with the Swiss team plus a few extras, we hit Alexander Platz with our free hugs and prayer signs but it was not amazingly successful as it rained like crazy. Gabe and I left early as my ticket ran out slightly before the end of the planned time and we were briefly able to share with a guy at the station. In the evening we went pasting images of Jesus around our area with the YWAMers.

Wed 27th: Our YWAM duty was cancelled as there was an event in the evening called Burn which was lead by a group from Texas about worship and prayer evangelism (a bit like 24-7 prayer but all worship) it was so so so amazing, to start we had a crazy time of worship (involving dancing!) reminded me of the freedom I experienced at Soul Survivor. Then a short talk about what they do and why they do it. Really exiting stuff too much to go into followed by a response that was intense. God moved in some mighty ways, again cannot put down but trust it was immense. From that we head home and got back at exactly mid-night (my birthday)

Thurs 28th: My Birthday, waffles for breakfast! Then onto the second part of Burn, worship on the street we were a little late and because of rain people had already decided to call it a day but Thilo just started to worship the clouds parted and we worship for about 2 hours in the centre of Berlin with all the YWAMers. Following this a small group of us head back to the park near us after some food, had some drinks and through a ball around till about 7.45ish. We then went back to ours for yet another game of Texas Hold'em until about 10. Then Gabe, Thilo, Anna T and Me went to a club that was closed! So walked along the East Side Gallery (part of the Berlin Wall) to another club had a bit of a dance and then walked home.

Fri 29th: (today) got up late as was shattered from last night. Have no plans other than youth church and whatever happens after is mystery.

Again thanks for your support, it means the world to me, there is so much more I wish I could write down to show you how much God is doing but I just do not possess the vocabulary to do so, God is good and every day he gives me something new and exciting it totally mind blowing.

Peace
Nathanael