Tuesday, February 05, 2013

it's miserable and magical at the same time.




        It’s hard to believe the end is here. The past 2 ½ months have been an incredible journey and there’s no possible way to sum up everything into a single blog post but here are some highlights from our experience.
        We had some visa issues so instead of spending the whole 10 weeks in China we were there for 1 month and we spent the other 6 weeks in Hong Kong and Berlin.

What made this so great?
:: Christmas caroling and team bonding in Germany
:: Baking nearly 5,000 cookies for our art show and a homeless ministry
:: Getting to create at MADE Creative Space in Berlin…incredible. This deserves it’s own blog post
:: Swing Dancing with my friends and watching them use their gifts to make connections. Charlene got to Blues dance and Patrick got to play with the band. Holla!
:: Volunteering at an amazing NGO in Hong Kong that serves as a hub for receiving/sending out donations to other organizations
:: Interactive Playground art with kids
:: Live art and music at TST, one of Hong Kong’s more popular spots for both locals and visitors
:: Meeting Sherry and Coco, two amazing Chinese women who let Kenzie and Kaitlyn use them in a photoshoot
:: Celebrating Christmas with a multi-cultural lunch turned drum circle.
:: Four Gallery Shows at a gallery in China. Each one was special and led to incredible discussions about identity, freedom and why we do what we do
:: Speaking in Chinese university classes about life in America and forming a special friendship with their sweet professor, Mrs. Li, who gave us Chinese names. Mine means little cat…go figure
:: Painting and dancing and falling in love with the noodle shop family who faithfully made us food every day
:: Celebrating New Years with dragons and Chinese lanterns
:: Spending time at an orphanage with the most precious disabled kids I‘ve ever met
:: Swing Dancing in Hong Kong
:: Prayer walking through the Red Light District
:: Seeing hundreds of people healed at a Kingdom Culture conference led by Bill Johnson
:: Being invited to speak about creative worship at the Hong Kong YWAM base
:: Prophetic art collaboration we will leave around the city

:: Eating traditional food in an alley and laughing at anything and everything possible

:: Debriefing and Dance Partying on the pier 
:: but most of all...getting to baptize three of the most amazing women who have been beside me during this journey

Germany, we're coming home. 

1 comment:

  1. Of course you are little cat. That does not surprise me at all. Proud of what you are doing.

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