So much has happened since I blogged last!
After a whirlwind trip to Germany (which I will get into more detail later, don’t you worry!), a ten hour flight back to Atlanta, and a two hour drive with 20 youth ministers on the crazy Covecrest bus, I showed up and immediately jumped back into life at camp: getting the chapel ready for Mass, helping to serve dinner, and praying with the folks here for Spring Training.
Welcome back!
Honestly, as crazy as it was to jump right back into the thick of things (all while trying to adjust to the time change!), Spring Training was awesome. It was great to have all the youth ministers here to share with us their blessings and struggles in ministry—many of which are the same we face as missionaries. It’s good to know that the young people in parishes all across the country are in such good hands; hands that are imperfect, yes, but striving for holiness nonetheless. I was filled with such hope for the Church, knowing that God is moving in powerful ways in the hearts of these youth ministers, and that He is just overflowing from them onto the teens they minister to.
Speaking of hope, I think that’s the word that best describes my experience while I was visiting Life Teen Suesterseel. The harvest is abundant, and the laborers are few! The beauty of that fact is that the harvest is abundant, which is something that only inspires hope for the future of the Church there. I really don’t know how to fully articulate everything that I experienced on my trip to Germany, but I think the chorus of this song says some of what I want to say:
“There is no one like our God!
Greater things are yet to come,
Greater things are still to be done in this city!”
I still don’t quite know what part I will play in the new evangelization that’s needed in that part of the world, but I know that great things are about to happen there. There is so much more that happened while I was there; I couldn’t even write it all down here. If you’re curious about some of those things, send me an email or give me a call and we can talk a little bit more about all that went on. I’m still processing, and I’ll be praying about Germany for a long time!
Thank you so much for your prayers for my trip, and please continue to pray for me as I discern where God is calling me next.
1 comment:
That was the last song I heard before I went to sleep last night and am still singing it. There is lots to be done, but in His way and time. Keep up the hope! You're an amazing woman of God!
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