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So yesterday was the national day of Greece (the spring one, they have another one in October).I asked Nasia to tell me about the national day. This is what she told me:

”Turkey had come, they wanted our country. For some years we were with the turks. We started an επανάσταση (revolution) saying ”We want our country back!!” Then we started war and so on.” ”And then you got your country back?” I asked. ”Yeah, something like that” she replied.

For us the day started in the church with... well I don't really know since it's all in Greek... but the priests were reading prayers and blessings, someone was going around taking up an offering and sprinkle water at the peoples hands, nice smelling water.

Then we went to the square where they were putting wreaths in memorial of those who died in the war.

Then the highlight of the day: the parade. Nasia have been a good student so she was allowed to carry “the flag”, she did it very good! She was beautiful in her national dress and we're all proud of her.

Then we did something almost as good, we were having ice cream!! :-)

Outside the church they put a basket with buns, the kids were quick to find them.

Waiting for the parade to begin.At the square

The yellow one read : I am the light of the world. Lena was very proud that she could read it on her own! The blue one sais: Keep your hands clean but also your heart
(or something. And you can read it backwards and it still reads the same, cool huh.)

But it was not all fun this day, my friends that's been visiting us went back to Athens and are going back home tomorrow, have a good flight! It was great having them here and I'm glad they were able to come all the way to see us!

Friends visiting

Laura, Amanda, Lena

Lena is all happy to have her friends from USA here!
Today we first went up in the mountain for a nice "goat safari"
and then in the evening the girls came along to the workshop,
here we are proud to show our creations!
Now we're looking forward to celebrating the Greek national day tomorrow.
More about that tomorrow...

Jesus is the life

A beautiful day for a nice springwalk in the neighbourhood.

For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light. Psalm 36:9
(We're not talking about the gnome, he just happen to be there :-). No we talk about Jesus!)

Because I like pictures

Ok we have done things lately but still what you get is pictures from when we where in Athens more than a month ago...
We start off with some pictures from Helenic Ministrys that we where visiting. It's a missions organisations that was recording some testimonys in their studio when we where there. Jeanet work fulltime with HM and is just a sweet soul. When the recording was done the teenages started to prepair for their sundayservice by practising their handbell choir. cool stuff



From the Hellenic Ministry we could see the Acropolis, and the next day we made our way through the Plaka (old city) up the hill to the old impressive buildings. A must when beeing in Athens we thought.






Now we are preparing for a team that will come here in May. It's a team from a bibleschool "Livskraft". We are really looking forward having them here. There are some practical things to arrange, we've found a place where they will stay and now we starting working with the program. We pray that the Lord will use them greatly and that they also will be inspired from the time here.

Dog in the park

.. and us.
Pictures from a couple of weeks ago
when enjoying the sun
in the park behind the parlament.
(at Thassos we were having snow this morning!
no enjoying the sun here...)

Marjo is on the move

Our dear friend Carina, that was here in the winter, is a masseur and had brought her massagebench with her. It was for sure a blessing for many as she is a very skillfull lady. And she's also a lady to plant visions. Though I do think God also been involved... Anyway she challenged Marjo to learn massage but Marjo said "no, nothing for me". But then when Carina left the thought couldn't leave her and now we have another massagebench in church and Marjo is finding ways to learn, and ones again we are all blessed for Marjo is a tallented women as well.

Next to the massageroom we have made a nice sittingroom to relaxe and enjoy a cup of tea after the massage. It's great fun to see one room after the other come to live and be more used than before.

Another masterpiece by Kenneth, new doors to our bathroom cupboard.