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Stories
from the Field
August
2003
Olympic
Ministry in Thessoloniki
With the Olympics just 12 months away, Greece is quite
the scene at the moment for volunteer activity. Many
folks are desiring to come and minister to people from
around the world who will converge here for the Olympics.
Our team in Thessaloniki, Greece, is busily preparing
for nearly 300 volunteers next summer. That is our
biggest prayer request.
This past summer we saw the power of college students
who were on Mission with Him. We had a team of six students
Texas come and spend 4 weeks here doing personal and relational
evangelism. The soil is very hard in Greece and there are
very few believers. These students, however, loved meeting
local Greek Nationals and quickly made over 40 good friends!
This was almost more than they could even manage and far
blew away any expectations that we had - funny how our
expectations seem to never be on scale with God's. College
student volunteers here are so effective because one of
the largest universities in Europe (Aristotle University
with 70,000 students) resides right in our backyard. It
was incredibly rejuvenating for our small team here to
work with these college students in planting seeds all
over the city. We are awaiting their return for six weeks
next June.
This past June, one of our team members also hosted, to
our knowledge, the first foreign lead baseball clinic in
Thessaloniki. Baseball is developing in Greece and they
are in need of assistance. We had a small team from the
States come in with a great deal of donated equipment and
they helped facilitate this week long event at a local
sports coliseum. God really blessed their efforts and plans
are underway for a repeat performance next year.
The needs in Thessaloniki are great. We need teams of
college students to survey young adults in our city and
do personal evangelism with them. During the summer, we
will host International World Changers, iWitness Ministries,
Global Impact, and 8 other ministries from the States.
Many of these projects depend on college students to be
successful. Our sincere prayer is that everyone reading
thE-TASK will consider coming to Greece for a short time
next summer. The world will be focusing on our country
over the next 12 months - our goal is for them begin focusing
on God instead. We hope to see you here soon!
The
Thessalonki Team!
Projects
in Thessoloniki:
International
World Changers
July 15 - 24, 2004
Call 1-800-789-4693 for more information.
Collegiate Teams
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