I just returned home after spending the week in Indiana at a week-long missionary training. It was the second of two trainings required for me to complete before I can depart for Albania. I was one (and the oldest) of 5 people at the training. There with me
was my Albanian partner,
Katie, Lauren who is heading to Zambia and
Sam and Sean who are going to Australia. We spent the week learning about
different topics such as: cross-cultural ministry, personal security and hostage survival,
spiritual warfare, and many other "-ology" sessions. The days were long
but the information was valuable.
We were privileged to stay at
Shunem House - a home for missionaries. Let's just say we definitely weren't roughing
it. Jim and
Jeanette (the hosts) took good care of us. Each morning we awoke to breakfasts similar to what my mom makes only on
Christmas morning. Katie and I were able to spend some extra time there to create promo-video for Shunem Ministries. It
was a great time to relax and get to know each other better.
I will now recap the week with pictures.
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| Limos are the cheapest mode of transportation. So... we took a limo from the airport |
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| one of the 19 rooms at Shunem |
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| Katie, Me, Lauren, Sam and Sean |
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| Lauren took advantage of break time! |
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| Playing Settlers of Catan on our lunch break |
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| The Shunammite woman serenades us with her accordion at breakfast |
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| We made it to the wall of fame! |
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| A friendly game of Catch Phrase (the girls won!) |
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| Shooting the promo-video | |
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| our editing suite! |
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| Sad to leave these wonderful people... |
*special thanks to Katie and Sam from whom I stole these pictures ;-)
Thanks for the update! I know you guys were excited to get this information but maybe even more excited to pass this milestone. By the way Sam was my daughters roommate at IWU for two years. God bless!!
ReplyDeleteWOW! Looks like you had an enjoyable time ;) Excited for your future!
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