koinonia

Purely as a blessing from God, we were able to get all 13 members of our team in one place at one time last night. We got to enjoy a wonderful spaghetti dinner, a ton of laughs, worship, and a talk by Grant's mentor, Mike.

Mike is very interested in the Islam religion and will soon be on his way to Turkey to continue ministering to the Muslim people.

During this "lecture" (it was far too captivating to consider a lecture), we learned a few things that will be helpful to know for our trip:
1. Muslims think Christians are arrogant for assuming they will go to Heaven because they don't really understand the concept of grace.
2. Though their religion is based on the Koran, they rarely read it. Instead, they read the writings of Muhammad and try to follow it to the t.
3. They believe Jesus was born a virgin, sinless, and performed miracles, but they do not believe he was the Son of God or crucified.
4. They have such a bad views of Christians because they think that all Americans are
Christians and our pop stars don't paint a very good example of "Christianity."

This "lecture" was amazingly helpful and made us all even more excited to hop on over to Egypt and get the show on the road. :)

We decided one of the best ways to talk to them is to be full of grace. It will be then that they will see our Father's love for us and through us.
"Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone." Colossians 4:6

~For His Glory~
Felicia

Here, for your pleasure, is my amazing team:



Bottom (L to R): Chelsea, Lisa, Robyn
Couch (L to R): ME!, Addy, Kendyll, Hillary, Brooke
Da boys: (L to R): Isaac, Ben, Grant, Mikel, Matt

A fine team I must admit :)