Day 6

Now the pergola is done, only have to put up the actuall cover that will give our caravan some nice and cool shade... at least it want be as warm we hope. And next week we will be bussy making the insulation to not make it to cold in the winter... We have now decided to take the walls out, check if the present insulation is fine (no mold or stuff), put it back and put some new and then put the old walls back (if they last our test). Then we only have to paint and so put our bed, benches and cupboards back... Well Nasia has already started helping us painting the cupboards.

We took Harald with us to see his new home. He didn't like it at all! There was lots of cats that didn't know anything about hospitality and a very scary dog. Well we hope he keep away from the dog, he has already killed a few cats...
These tomatos are growing next to our new "bedroom" (the caravan). Aren't they beautiful!


(took the pictures yesterday- day 6)

Day 4

Kenneth has been building a sun shade for our caravan.
I have been home packing.
Harald has made sure we wan't forget to bring him.

One moment he was playing in full speed, next he just fall asleep
- I thought he broke his neck and died or something...

day two

Harald on the beach. last summer

Day two in our project- making the caravan our home- didn't give much reward.
We're missing the material that we are used to from Sweden. They don't have the same stuff in the shops here!
So today we spent a lot of hours just trying to figure out how we can make it instead.
But we did buy some things, nothing that we could use though because we are still missing other things.
Then it was to hot to work in the day and to dark to work in the night (we tryed it both).

Anyway, putting a nice picture of our cat from last summer because even though we didn't get far with our projekt our cat is still our joy and actually we did got some other things done. Kenneth is working on a commercial for a camping on the island. Lena has been babysitting a 3 month old baby! super lovely!

Making the caravan our home

This past year we have been living in an beautiful apartement on the top floor overwieing the roofs and the acropolis of Limenas. It's been a big and nice apartment, good for hosting friends and family.
But it's not ours for much longer... In two weeks we are moving out.

What it looks like right now we will from September on sleep in our caravan and use the church in the daytime.
The caravan is not much like a home at the time so this coming week we will have lots to do. But it's fun. We're not sure what it all will look like in the end but somehow I belive God will help us put everything in order. We have to fit our stuff in the church with the things allready going on there, decide what to bring to the camper and our cat has to learn to live with a bunch of more or less wild cats that already lives at Pelidis house.
Trying to figure out how to fix the heating system.

The caravan has been at our pastor Dimitris house since we came here. It's for some time been used as a music studio where Michalis have had his drumes. The kids also slept there some nights. Some time ago Kenneth together with Michalis was starting to empty it to make more space.
Now we want to make it a bit more isolated and nicer so we have been emptying the last bits and tomorrow when the stores are open again we will go to find material- something for the floor, isolation, wood and paint. Have to go with the flow and use what is a available to a resonable price.
Then when we fixed that we will put cupbords, bed, table back again and make it our home.

Night life

These days has been hot and we are not functioning as normal, everything is a bit slower than in the winter.
We have started to take "siesta" to see if we function better in the cooler hours in the night and the morning, so far it seems easier to use the late hours than the early... But it's for sure nicer to be up when it's less then 30°
So tonight after 10 Lena started working in the kitchen, making yummy cinnamon rolls and "Pink Lemonade".
Kenneth is at the computer, trying to understand and finish a summer course in 3D animation.

Love actually-Love in action

Thassos Christian Fellowship have had a conference at pentecost for a few years and so we did this year. This year pentecost was quite late and so the conference was in mid June. It was a good event as always, brothers and sisters gatherd to hear good biblical teaching, fellowship, worship and get new challanges.
The theme for this year was "Love actually- love in action" and we wanted it to be a practical teaching for everyday life. We did not only have teachings but after every sermon we took time for workshops to ask our selfs- how does this apply to my life?

The first session our pastor, Dimitri, was teaching, giving us an introduction to the weekend.
In the evening Tommy (a Swede living in Thessaloniki) was talking about reaching the community around us and then the next morning another Swede, Bosse (that is working with rehabilitation of addict peopel) was beautifully charing from the story of the good samarian (Luk 10:25-37)- who is your neighbour in need? Later, in the evening, we had a german brother working as a missionary in Turky visiting us talking about our call to "Pain and joy"- and he know pain is a risk we take, his brother in law was killed a few years ago because of his calling to spred the good gospelnews to whoever wanted to hear. On Sunday morning we had our last meeting and a british friend, Jerome, was concluding the event with a sermon from 1Cor 13- In what ever you do, do it from love.Love is for sure the bottom line for all our work and that was also our conclusion at most of the workshops- “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’- If you do that you will find it easy to do what's right.

The family Schut visiting

Hans and Jeanet on the top at Limenas

Playing "throw the stone as near the first stone as possible"

Finding amazing, juicy, tasty berrys on a tree. We named them "bloodberrys" because that's what it looked like...

A visit in Filippi, the top picture is the market place mentioned in the book of acts (16:19) and then down right what is traditionaly called the prison of Paul (Acts 16:23-31)

Hans is teaching at our Tuesday gathering on the beach.

Thank you Hans for letting us use your pictures! They are very nice.