truffles? Yes please!

The last two days have been filled with training and adventures around Belgium. Since our primary purpose here is our training, I'll start out with that.

A group of us... Abby, Liz, Jenni, Rachel, Vitaliy, Marissa, and I... were assigned to do our internship at the Korean church in Brussels. We went and met with Pastor Choi who has been the pastor there for the past 3 1/2 years. He is wonderful and had tea all laid out and waiting for us even though we were nearly 45 minutes late since we missed our train... ahh! We're still getting used to public transportation here. We will be serving the church by sharing testimonies in church every week, meeting with small groups, and also meeting with the young adult groups, the youth groups, and maybe Sunday schools. We are hoping to build relationships with some people in this congregation. We anticipate the Lord using them to teach us far more than we have to offer them. I have heard that Korean believers are passionate for the Gospel... they are prayer warriors! So I am excited to learn from them!

Other news from our training: We have been doing sessions together covering topics such as... integrating into new cultures, how to break stereotypes, how to work on a team, recognizing how you function on a team, etc. We've been using some fun activities to get us working together and it's neat to see how different people start stepping into their natural roles. I'm sure that will continue to come out as we spend time together. I'm also really enjoying leading worship... so that's been a huge plus.

I've really enjoyed meeting the people here at the OM center. I haven't gotten to talk much with the workers here, but they are great and so willing to serve us. I've gotten to talk some with other MTW missionaries who are just passing through. What a blessing to get to talk to people who are on the field laboring for the Lord. It's so encouraging and reminds me again of how the great the need is and how faithful the Lord is to use His people to be part of His work.

We did get some fun pictures on our way to and from the Korean church, with a little detour into the city on the way home.

The train station in Schaarbeek on the way to the church. After taking the train and two trams (a two hour trip), we discovered we can take the bus directly there in 25 minutes.

Just a cool house and fun playing with my camera

That's right... a chocolate shop! We got awesome truffles here.

My European favorite... 4 fromages pizza! Yum!