The Final Days

Hello readers...


My time in Vienna is coming to a close. I'm very sad to leave this place, yet excited at the same time because I miss my family a lot. Over the last two weeks, it has really started to feel like home. If you would have asked me two weeks ago if I was ready to go home, I would have said yes, but since then, God has really started to shape my heart to see what He sees when He looks at this city. He has given me eyes to see a need that goes so much deeper than seeing drug adicts standing outside Karlsplatz. 
Also, in the last few weeks I have begun to see just how important this community is to me. I love the interns that I work with, Lindsay, and the Hunters so much! It has been such a gift from God to work with all of them this summer. It's going to be hard going from such a close knit community, where we have been so open and honest with each other, to a community at college where I've known those people longer, but they don't know my heart. I, as well as my whole team, have taken great risks to make the most of this summer--exposing our sins, loving deeply, and living in such close quarters--and because we loved deeply, the loss will be deep. 
Please pray that during this last week, that the God of all peace will be in our midst and we will feel Him as we say goodbye to this city and to each other. Pray that we would be able to adjust well to life back home as we go through reverse culture shock. Pray that the work that God has been doing would continue in the lives of the Austrians we have met as well as in our own lives. 


Here's my schedule for this week:
Monday: shopping for gifts, retreat time (lunch and quiet time at Schönbrunn palace), baby date with Allie, and roomie night.
Tuesday: prayer walk at International Christian School of Vienna, tourist time, date with Alli and Allie, family night. 
Wednesday: Clean the church, discipleship with Lindsay, tourist time, time with roomies.
Thursday: Clean the apartment, dessert night at our apartment for church ladies and friends.
Friday-Saturday: Debriefing 
Sunday: church activities
Monday: goodbyes, packing, and family night. 
Tuesday: leave bright and early