Again A Long Overdue Update

Thurs 16th cont.. After outreach in Boxi we went to Potsdamer Platz to see a performance run by 'Summer 2 Go' which is a summer program run in association with YWAM (I think!) and it was really great. It had young people from all over the world doing dance, drama, beatboxing, music, worship and a mixture of the previous.

Fri 17th: The strangest weather I have seen in a long time started off 31 degrees and humid, then windy as anything and then the biggest thunder storm, which was quite worrying as we had handed out of many flyers for the open air show that night! But in the end all was well. Radiant concert was really good sound had its issues and so they were very late starting but was a good evening.

Sat 18th: Alexander Platz was cancelled as we spent the day cleaning the house in preparation for Chris Liu (Gabe's friend from Taiwan) who was coming on the monday for 3 and a bit weeks before he and Gabe would go back to Taiwan.

Sun 19th: Mauer Park Church was a little different to day as we had a Dance team with us called M18 who were made up of people from Brazil, Finland, Norway, Vietnam, The Philippines, Canada and Germany. So we did a shorter time of worship at the beginning before they did there thing (Brazilian Music with samba, Hip Hop dance and Mime) and very similar to the YWAM teams we worked with after each section there was a testimony or Gospel shared. Lunch was had in a small Thai restaurant near our house called Koy (which Brad Pitt has eaten in fact!). After lunch we meet up with M18 again and similar to mauer without the worship at Boxi. The then as they had in the morning spread out and started chatting to people. In the evening I had an interesting encounter I was walking home from the tram stop (about 20 mins walk) when I meet this man who asked me for a light which I didn't have so we walked together, I was able to share the Gospel with him which was good but the slightly scary not at the time really but just after was half way along our walk he say something like "I'm 40 year old and gay and you are the kind of guy that charms me" which as I said at the time I was not worried about but looking back after he left it was really sketchy!

Mon 20th: Chris Liu, so was a relatively chilled day, went to ostkreuz in the evening to support M18 but they were not on for too long because a police car came and circled the park and thought that we may have been to loud for the area.

Tue 21st: Bart and Chris' site seeing day we started at Alexander Platz, went to the Berliner Dome, Humbolt University, Brandenberg Gate, Reichstag, Jewish memorial and Potsdamer Platz. Carolyn of the South Africa team was coming over for dinner and we had a BBQ in the park.

Wed 22nd: Day off, and Bart leaves. It was sad to see him go I really enjoyed his time here. Not much else to talk about...

Thurs 23rd: Outreach in Boxi was fun we hung out and played songs for a couple of hours. Radiant were playing in Sage Club that night and we had managed to get on the guest list so we headed there for the evening. It was a bit of a nightmare to begin with because Radiant's guest list didn't arrive until 10:20 so there was allot of waiting around outside but we eventually got in.

Fri 24th: No idea what we did on this day if it come back to me I will update.

Sat 25th: Outreach at Bahnhof Zoo. Meet for the first time a Ukrainian missionary called Tanya whom Bug and Bre had meet the day before in Alex who had been doing evangelism completely on her own. We hung around and worshiped, passed out tracks and Bug preached. We were not there for too long because the Burn was that day (24 hours of worship which had been running since 10 the evening before).

Sun 26th: Mauer Park Church was again different, this time because of a Latin Festival so we had to move from our normal spot, but it was still a good time. After Church we shared a picnic together and headed home. I spent the afternoon chilling and hanging out with Bug and Bre.

Mon 27th, Tues 28th and Wed 29th: All days off because Christian (who leads Leopold Platz) was on vacation with his family. So again not much to report. Went to Berlin Guggenheim which was fun not very big and Artist on show wasn't particularly interesting for me.

Thurs 30th: Outreach in Boxi, we all didn't really feel like doing anything today, but felt like we should so we headed down to Boxi with the aim of just sitting on a bench sing a few worship songs and pray a bit for an hour or so, but when we got there we had only been sitting down for a few minutes when Louis appeared on the other side of the park waving his arms at us to come over to him. Bug and Bre went and sat with him and the man he was with whist Tanya and myself sat on another bench and carried on praying and worshiping. When Bug and Bre came back they informed us that they had prayed for the guy Louis was with and he had said that he didn't believe in God but that he felt something very real when they prayed for him and that he really appreciated their prayer. Then a guy called Alex that we know walked up and started talking to us and we had an amazing conversation with him and Tanya sung him a song in Russian, Then a guy we have never meet before with crazy hair came over and we had a really long conversation with him about his life and again we were able to share the Gospel and pray with him.

Fri 31st: Gabe D's going away party, we went to a beach and hung out and partied all day, the plan was originally to stay over night but the police arrived around 11.30 and told us otherwise, a memory that will stay with me forever is Chris Liu charging in clapping his hand and shouting before realizing there were 10 police men with flash lights pointing at him, and then asking them 'who are you, you guys are nice'.

Sat 1st August: Because of Gabe D's party we lay in, tidied the house before heading out for an afternoon of fun and German learning.

Sun 2nd: (Today) Mauer Park Church soon, rest of the day is a mystery.....

My only real pice of big news is that there is a date set for my return to the UK which is August 18th, which is actually really scary it feel like I am going to something completely new even though it is home. Thanks so much for your support peace Friends.

Nathanael