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Hey everyone, we are back!!  We landed in Pittsburgh Sunday evening around 8:00pm…all 3 of our flights were great.  Our team was amazing in traveling so much, being tired, giving when there was nothing left to give, depending on God’s strength and not their own…usually had nothing left so God’s strength was all there was….isn’t it funny…many of us generally wait until exhausted to ask for God’s strength instead of asking before the task at hand begins…just a side note but something we faced as well and began learning that it was better to ask for God’s strength on the front end of the work He called us to.  Be watching and listening for a “recap” evening planned for sometime in August.  We look forward to presenting, in person, what God did in our lives and in the lives of many teens in Estonia.  Many of us…even those of us who have had little church experience….can’t really imagine not knowing something about God…Jesus or the Bible.  So many Estonian youth have never heard of Jesus, His plan of salvation for our lives….nothing.  This has nothing to do with their formal education…they are very intelligent…what we deal with in Estonia is a generaltional skip if you will….the Baby Boomers are generaly not Christ followers so they did not teach their children, who did not teach their children.  KOMA, Risttee and Going Up America Ministries are trying to begin with a generation that will come to know Him…live and teach this to their children so that a whole generation will begin a new culture…this one with a God who loves them and sent His Son, Jesus.  All of us are very tired but very energized in remembering what God has done this past week.  We are all humbled to have played a small part in His vision for mankind.  We have also challenged each other to taking what we have learned to our churches and communities.  God is at work in our world…He wants to be at work where we live….we are ready to take on this challenge of sharing our faith with others….there will be more about our trip to come but I’ll be honest…I’m a bit jet lagged so not sure how much more I can write, right now….peace out….dave

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