Animated Bible Reading......

Every Thursday we, as a team, have Bible Study and prayer. We are starting a study on Judges so our last Bible Study, Peter wanted us to ready through Judges together. However, when we read he wanted us to read with excitement, animation, and with different voices. At first I was thinking, "oh man, I stink at this kind of thing. Plus, is anyone really going to get into it?" Well, Peter started us off and he read with vigor, zeal, and passion. He made the story come alive. As we went around the room everyone used their announcers voice and got into the reading. When we came to Judges 5, where Deborah sings of her victory over Sisera, it was Matt's turn. He sang the whole thing! It was great! If you ever wanted to now what Deborah's song sounded like, it had a farmer joe with a banjo kinda melody. :) I loved it! It was so much fun and refreshing to read the Word of God in community with zest and liveliness. I would encourage you to try it! It may feel awkward and weird at first, but once you get past that, you feel like you are able to step into the story and partake in what is happening. :)

First Agape Meeting!

Last Wednesday we had our first Agape Meeting of the school year! Jason and Peter did a great job planning a Film Festival! We watch 3 short films and would have a discussion after each one. The students brought great insight into the discussions. Speaking of students, 12 came! All but one were from surveys we did when the summer team was here! It was incredible! Four of the students signed up saying they would be interested in doing a Bible Study and 3 students signed up saying they would be
interested in doing an Alpha Course which is learning about Christianity.
PRAISE GOD!! It was a fun and encouraging evening!

Go Lithuania!!

During the European Basketball Championship we had some girls over to watch the game with us. It was the night Lithuania played Croatia and of course Lithuania won! WooHoo!!












Tiana, Laura, Monika, Akvyla

Up and running again......

We had a summer team come for two weeks at the end of August/beginning of September. They were an amazing group of people! Left to right- Bob, Anita, Paddy, Erin, Noah, and Julie. God used them in incredible ways here; not only in reaching the students, but also being a huge encouragement to us. Thank you, P-Town Team!



During the afternoons we would split up in teams of 2 and go do surveys. Jen organized about 650 gift bags for us to give to the students that we met while we were in the dorms. We gave away about 500 of them! I get so excited just thinking about how many students heard the gospel and/or experienced the love of Christ last week!



Our first event of the week was a suppose to be Field Games outside, but God had other plans. It ended up pouring Monday night so we ended up meeting in a pub that is on the main university street by KTU (Kaunas Technology University). It was a perfect place because the European Basketball Championship started last week so we played pool and then the guys got to watch the game with the students. That night 16 guys came! That is unheard of! It is always girls and maybe 1 or 2 guys.

This is Tadas. He is a student that came 3 out of the 4 nights.









The second night we went to a bowling alley, but there was some misunderstanding and we could bowl as a huge group. However, the second floor of the bowling alley was all pool tables so we played pool again! This time there were about 20 guys!!




The third night we had a scavenger hunt around the city the P-Town Team planned. We split up into 4 teams and hand an hour a half to find certain things around the center. This photo we had to find Anita at a statue and put on clothes and have our picture taken.




We had to buy a Kebabi and share it amongst the team.
Jen and I took this task very seriously! :)










Here is our team. We got 2nd place. :)







Then we went to a pub called Fortas and watched the basketball game. The last night everyone was invited to Tiana and I's flat for games and a slid show of the week. There were 13 students that came! It was a great time to have one on one conversations and to start building some friendships.