Over the last couple of months I have been challenged by so many different things. The biggest thing that I have been challenged with is what is my role, what is my place here. My prayer has been "God what do you have for me here". In the midst of this questioning there has been many opportunities to meet people and visit churches. This is the first time in my life where I have had to "church shop" in the sense that there is a number of very good churches to get involved in and be apart of. It is up to me to decide and no one is telling me where to go. This is great BUT not always easy.

One of the very cool opportunities is to be able to help in some graphic arts with the OM team. As some of you may know I have a passion for graphic design and video stuff and it is really cool because I have been praying for an opportunity to grow in this and also use my passions in this area. My main responsibility here is to BCOM and making sure that my students are succeeding in there Internship, but this is also just a part of my ministry. This only fill some of my time, there is a lot of my time that is at my discretion. Most my time is spent in language learning right now. Come May it is go time for me and I will no longer have Language class 4 days a week for 3 hour a day.

My team and I had the opportunity to go with a church that is rather large here to a weekend retreat with the College age group. This was a very full weekend but we were able to really just have fun and meet some new people here in Vienna. We were just attending the retreat and not really involved at all in ministering at it which turned out to be very good because we were able to really bond with the people and really just be on the same page with them. I think that the retreat while good was very stressful for all of us here on the team as we all had lots of language homework and class right away on Monday. So this made for a somewhat hard week. We all survived though.

We are all in place right now of uncertainty with our visa situation. We have received some news about our visa applications and have been told that in order to qualify for our visa we need to have a monthly income of 1400 euro's. This is about $1900 US dollars. This puts us in the position of trying to figure out what to do next. We are still seeking the Lord in what to do and are able to stay in Austria up to 6 months as a tourist but would need to leave for possibly up to three months at the end of this 6 months. This is really not ideal but very easy as we are very close to Eastern Europe and have many contact that would gladly take 8 people wanting to serve the Lord. As exciting as this sounds as someone who would be leading this team into that I have some nervousness about this. I am so grateful in this time of uncertainty for a God that is so faithful and constant.

Please continue to Pray with me for our visa situation and that the Lords will would be done in this time. Please also pray for me as I am still searching for a church that I can be involved in.
Thank you and God Bless