2/15/2010 - Our Staff

Today the Living Bread Staff traveled to Jericho / Jeriho / Yeriho. I've seen it spelled multiple ways and I'm not sure if there is a wrong way to write it as long as you pronounce it correctly. Haha. But before I share about my outing, I want to give you a background about what most days are going to be like for me to give you an idea of how to pray for me.

• Mondays - Worship @ Living Bread Church - 9:00AM
• Tuesdays -Worship @ Living Bread Church - 9:00AM
• Wednesdays -Worship @ Living Bread Church - 9:00AM
• Thursdays -Worship @ Living Bread Church - 9:00AM
• Fridays (Shabbat begins sundown) -Worship @ Living Bread Church - 9:00AM
• Saturdays (Shabbat ends at sundown) - Off / free time
• Sundays -Worship @ Living Bread Church - 11:00AM

Most days, it seems like I will be having fellowship at church and from there go on to other activities, such as going to Jericho. We'll come back from church to the ministry house and prepare for the service, eat, pack up and take off. It seems like a pretty relaxed schedule. Things might change though after Pastor Karen comes back from Gaza. . . I think either way I'll have a really good time just because of the people I will have the opportunity to work with.

• Mike (Canada): 21-22: full time staff
• Stephania (Italy) 40-something: volunteer
• Kat (North Dakota) 18 going on 19: volunteer
• Rachel (Australia) 40-something: full time staff
• Briana (South Dakota) 28: volunteer
• Jeffry (Washington) 28: volunteer
• Tristan (Singapore) 25 : full time staff
• John Mark (?) ?: Karen's son / full time staff
• Karen Dunham - the leader of Living Bread

There are a few other staff that I have not yet met and whose names I do not know. Volunteers come and go constantly and stay anywhere from a few days to months at a time. But everyone here is so incredibly kind and welcoming I feel like a part of the team after 3 days! I talked with Briana and Kat for a long time tonight and shared testimonies and life stories and we're all on the same page. It feels awesome to be with people who are really focused on and dedicated to God in the same way that I am. Everyone here was willing to put their life, their agenda, their plans, their financial situation, their stress, their job on hold and come to be a part of a dynamic group of people looking to see Israel changed for the better. Because of this almost sacrificial lifestyle that everyone in the ministry has come to lead (for whatever amount of time) we are all really free to listen to God's direction and are able to be totally spontaneous. Not to say that the organization is discombobulated or irrational, but there is an easy freedom that I feel that I have not yet experienced before. Maybe its the presence of God =)