Worldly Holiness

4 Guys in Fez, originally uploaded by papalars.

What you have before you are the stars, at least some of them, of the existing and future Mosaics project team. These are the ones that traveled together for about 10 days in Morocco recently. Pardon the self aggrandizement. If you can guess who belongs to each category, "existing" and "future," you win a prize. By the way, we all got a touch of the bug that affected our digestive systems. It hit me the hardest and the fastest perhaps but hey, what can I say. That is the way the parasite….works it's way into the system sometimes.

This picture was taken inside the medina in Fez, close to where the horse taxi picture was taken in one of the previous posts. We left Nate the day before in language school inside the walled section of the city and he is probably doing well at this point in his Arabic. He was so eager to plunge in head first when we saw him last. Pray for him during these weeks. He is immersed at this point with the language and culture all around him, living with a Moroccan family. He may need a little assistance from upstairs at this stage of the game.

Let's do a little who, what, where on the picture and see if you can match the description to the person above.

One of these guys is a current student at North Park Seminary and will soon be doing an internship at a church in Washington. He traveled with us to see if maybe God was calling to this kind of work. Another lives in France currently but will be doing language study in Tunisia this summer before returning to the States for a six month period of itineration, speaking in churches about the Mosaics project. Another one of these guys is currently studying in Fez, but will return to Texas this summer for about a month before he comes back to Spain to complete a second year of short-term mission work, but this time in our city of choice, Barcelona. He will work with a Latino cell group that we have been supporting this year and also engage our focus group with the Mosaics project. Lastly, the fourth guy in this picture currently lives in Barcelona where he is beginning to make plans for a year of ministry with the Mosaics project and the Covenant Department of World mission based in Seattle. He has three wonderful children and Carol is his wife. She was back in Barcelona during this trip volunteering for the Red Cross and keeping track of their last son at home. Each person loves what they are doing and feels called by God to serve others–mostly focus people.

If you care to comment or make any guesses, drop me an email or post a comment. I just thought you'd like to know a little bit about who God is calling into this exciting and strategic ministry. Do you know anyone else we should be talking to?

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