Yasas!!!

Hi everyone! Greece is so amazing! I am sorry I have not been updating…we do not have much Internet access here.

I want to thank you all for your thoughts and prayers. God has been so faithful here!!!! Since I last wrote, we have hosted a kid’s camp (ages 8-12) and a Teen’s camp at Porto astro.

Porto astro is an amazingly special place. God moves here in incredible ways. At teen camp this past week god brought ten teenagers into his kingdom. There were also 30 teens that came forward and said they felt they call to missions! This is unheard of in Greece, with close to 20,000 people for every missionary here. It is a very forgotten land. The prayer here has been that the Greek’s would rise up in their own country and spread god’s word. Praise the lord that this is coming to pass!!!

We had a baptism in the sea, and 8 people were baptized. It was so incredible to see god’s spirit move in so many powerful ways.

Throughout the teen camp I was working with a girl with cerebral palsy. At first it was very challenging, and I was not sure I could do it. Through prayer and god’s grace we worked together and learned from each other. She has an amazing spirit. She is 18 and this was her first time away from home. She wanted to go home and the beginning of the week, and by the end of camp she was telling us she wanted to come back next year. It was incredible to watch her transformation. As the others leaders and I worked with her she began to smile more and open up. The other campers accepted her as well. All the glory to god!

My team and I are headed up to operation Joshua tomorrow. This operation is set up to hand out Greek bibles to everyone in Greece. We have 60,000 bibles’ to hand out, which is quite an undertaking. We will be splitting up in teams and covering many different villages around Sparta!

All the Money for the bible’s is raised by Hellenic ministries. We have been in prayer for the bible’s and god has provided! My friend Kirsten gave $300 towards the bible’s and prayed that it would be made into $30,000 dollars, and it was!!!!!! God is so very good!!!!!

Please continue to be in prayer for operation Joshua and the people of Greece. Your prayers are being heard!

With grace and peace and much love!

anika