Wir haben Erdbeeren gepflückt!!

What? English translation, you say? We picked strawberries! Saturday afternoon, we needed to get groceries and on our list was assorted fruit. The strawberries at the store are imported, but there are strawberry fields everywhere. While we waited at a nearby farmer's stand, our American neighbors walked in, fresh from picking their own strawberries. They told us of the spot and we hurried over to do the same.

A Quiet Day at Home

As I write this, our windows are open on this sunny, 70 degree day. Jana and I stayed home today to work on some German and relax after some long weeks. They were not long enough, but in many ways, they were too long.

Fuzzy Internet

Okay, so we had difficulties getting internet at our hotel during this last conference. I'm sure Thad will love to elaborate on the irony of the situation, so I will leave that to him.

The conference was wonderful and basically focused on developing leadership skills, and also on buidling stronger teams and learning to work together. Agape Europe currently has what we call a "virtual" team...basically, that means that we are not all in one place...with leadership serving/living in over 14 different countries (I don't have a count on the number of cities!!). Since we serve on the Communications team, our jobs have grown with the need to provide creative and useful ways for our leadership and staff to interact with each other.

We had the opportunity to meet with several leaders withion Agape, and I'm really excited about the upcoming possibilities/projects!

On a project update, we passed out 1000 of the forty-four page booklet that I worked on, and it was really fun to see everyone's excitement. We are now in the works of editing for a second printing, and we are even trying to work out details for having it printed in other European languages.

If you would like to take a look at the brochure itself, there is a PDF version on the Agape Europe website. http://www.agapeeurope.org/