Blue

Yes, the sky is blue again (ok, there are some clouds) after some days of rain this feels great!

Anyway, what to tell. There is a lot of transformation going on. I still don't understand why I have to keep on changing and moving all the time, but hey, if God things I can handle it, that works for me. Still, sometimes it bothers me that I can't have a "normal" life. BUT God is good and there is no better way than his so I will keep on following him, which sometimes means to sacrifice and leave pieces of my heart behind. Glory to God. Oh, yes, the transformation... I won't be working for OM during winter and after TeenStreet 2007 I will quit my job as Coordinator. Now I have to figure out what to do during winter (only God knows weather or not I will spend winter in Switzerland) and what to do next summer. Well, summer is far away, so I don't think about that just yet, but winter (December - February) must be sorted out sometimes soon. I'm working on that one. All I know is that I want to dedicate those month to God in a special way. I'm open for suggestions ;-)

TeenStreet & the life after

It feels like time passes me and the only reason I realise it, is when people ask me, how old I am.

TeenStreet 2006

Right people, TeenStreet 2006 is history. There were nearly 4000 people, 194 from Switzerland. It was rather strange to be the one in charge for the Swiss. I'm ok with organising but I didn't like the fact, that I did not have time for leading a small group. My passion is youth work, not administration. Still I had time to talk to quite a few Teens, hanging out with them and talking to them about great subjects. Some of them were really open, I love them. My greatest experience at TS was in the meeting which was specially for the girls (the guys had their own separate meeting, too). At the end they anointed the girls and prayed for them. As so many girls went to the front, they asked the staff members to come and help out. That gave me the privilege to anoint some girls and pray for them. It was such an awesome experience. Some of them cried and I was so overwhelmed that I had to fight tears myself.

Holidays in le Porge Océan (France)

I had the privilege to spend one week at the beach, watching the Atlantic raging (well, at the end of the week the crazy waves were gone). The camp was organised through ICF Zurich, but a girl from ICF Basel was with me. We had such a great time. Some of the Zurich people just blew me away and challanged me to stand up again. It's so much easier to be radical when you have people like that around it. The fire I want to consume me. Jesus really swept me off my feet there. Nature captivated me, one day I went walking along the beach for 2 1/2 hours, there I could sing, pray, marvel at what God created. It's hard to be back home.

Future

As always uncertain. I don't know yet what I will be doing this winter. It doesn't make sense to take the trip to Zurich only to sit around, drink coffee, talk to people at the office. There's no work. At them moment I talk to my boss about different possibilities. We'll see. In a way I feel like leaving, on the other hand I know some people here need me, some of my friends are going through nightmares and I don't want to leave them. Still some people keep on telling me, that I can't carry the weight of the world. The truth is, I don't know what to do, where to go, but I also know, that God will lead me, as he did the past few years.

Hey, kids, did you see, Roger Federer won again :-)