That is one of the main things that I have been learning here at YWAM DTS. I have been so concerned with what God wants me to do rather than what he wants me to be. I thought that I would be coming here to DTS to get some great bible truths about my relationship with Christ. Right after that, I thought I would be going to Haiti to take those truths to the Christ hungry Haitians. But Abba is shattering those plans extremely fast. When people receive a passion for a nation, like myself, we want to do something right [View Full Entry]

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I rolled down the window. The breeze was chilly. Very chilly. It was early June, but northeast Minnesota did not seem to care. In the late spring of 2006, I embarked on a week of fishing and sightseeing in the Boundary Waters region of Minnesota with my father. We were to meet in late afternoon on a Saturday, but I decided to leave Norman, OK, early on Friday. Early ended up being about 1 pm, but that still falls under the definition of the word in my book. The drive was solely to be I-35 until the town of Cloquet, after [View Full Entry]

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Early next week I will write a detailed entry of how amazingly Youth With A Mission Discipleship Training Sschool is going. J Right now though, I would really appreciate all of your prayers. All of us students and staff met to hear about the details of each outreach which will take place from December 30-February 20 as part of DTS. The two choices are Peru or India. Each one of us students will be individually praying about which country God would like to use us in to fulfill his will. We just went over the details and will be praying and [View Full Entry]

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And now for something completely different! I've been contacted by people from all over the world who have read my blog and I'm now up to 8700 hits. So I'm taking a momentary break from Saudi Arabia blog entries, to give you some photos from where I live. There is nothing more Minnesotan than the Minnesota State Fair, which takes place at the end of August. Here are some photos that my daughter took while we were there. These photos are the essence of being Minnesotan. In fact, these could be used in an anthropology class at the University of Minnesota [View Full Entry]

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It has been 4.5 months since I arrived back to the civilization I know as Minneapolis, Minnesota. How great those two words sound together. Still in Nicaragua the last week in May, I didn't want to leave the country I never thought I would call home. My very last day and night in Nicaragua was unforgetable. I said goodbye to my friends in Granada, one of whom took the bus ride with me into Managua. Having to say goodbye is never fun. I emptied all my Cordoba out of my bank account, transfered it to USD and spent the afternoon shopping. [View Full Entry]

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Hello all, After a very long day (and night) of flying, I am back home, and in one piece. Although, getting through US passport control proved once again to be the most difficult part of the trip. That Syrian Visa gets them every time, and this particular agent made me state again and again that my travels to 'that part of the world' (meaning, I presume, the Middle East) had nothing to do with my work (as if they know what I do...). In the end, they let me through, although I think it was largely due to the fact that [View Full Entry]

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I had a good night's sleep and woke up way before my 8am wake up call. That's great and all, but the 2 things I wanted to do for the day don't open until much later, so I kind of lazed around. I spoke to our Nairobi travel agent and we (i.e. he) decided it would be best for me to have a driver for the day. That way I wouldn't have to try to find a reliable taxi back to the hotel, and I wouldn't be wasting that time as well. So Sylvester picked me up a little after 10 [View Full Entry]

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Again, for those of you who are asking... My travel companion for Jordan is my friend Amil, who currently lives in San Francisco (and works at Wells Fargo, but don't hold that against him...). We met many years ago now when we both were enrolled at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (UK) and living at Harvey Court (ugh). I could tell you stories of the classes we took together... for instance how the Professor teaching 'Philosophic Themes from Descartes to Wittgenstein (Alan Hobbes) spent most of his time pontificating against women academics ('they spend too much time reading and gr [View Full Entry]

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Ta-daa, så er der nyt! Nå, jeg tror lige jeg skal huske hvor jeg kom fra.. Efter LA er jeg taget nordpå, amerikanerne kalder det nordvest. Jeg synes nu mere der er østpå!? Anyways, jeg boede de første dage hos Kelly. Kelly er en veninde fra Buenos Aires, eller hun er nok mere fra Peru. Sven og jeg rejste med hende i Peru i en lille måneds tid. Tror jeg gentager mig selv, men det går nok. Hvis man vil høre/læse mere om Kelly kan man læse tidligere indlæg. Nå, men der sov jeg så på sofaen i 4 dage. Jeg [View Full Entry]

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Hello all, With less than a week until my departure for Egypt (four days and counting...) I have already been asked if I am planning on taking another picture of my shoes. For those of you who might not have followed along on my last adventure (and therefore are wondering why someone would expect to see a picture of my shoes), a brief recap, with photos... Not long into my last trip (into the rain forests of Central America) a Costa Rican friend and I decided to spend a day on an extreme hike up an inactive volcano in the middle [View Full Entry]

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