RHP 2022 ~ Athens Greece

So, we got on a plane.  We transferred in Frankfurt.  We passed every control that we needed to pass.  We arrived at the hotel in Athens.  And we breathed a sigh of relief!

Hello Athens!  You're so beautiful and warm and sunny :-)

RHP in the house!!!

3 full days, 4 nights.  Theme of the conference:  praying for those who are persecuted in Afghanistan.  Workshops.  Worship ~ in English, Arabic, Farsi, Dari, Greek.  Meeting the world ~ those who have a refugee journey to share, those who have a ministry experience to share.

This just made me giggle....the "disinfected" sticker that greeted us in the hotel!

Praying in many languages ~ so powerful! 

Take-aways from the conference:

~God’s incredible goodness.  We got there!  We were negative when we needed to be negative (all those Covid tests, get it??!!)

~amazing opportunities to worship together, to learn together, to pray together, to cry together, to listen together.

~important opportunities for each of us to gather more tools for our ministry tool boxes, but also important education opportunities for my refugee guests.

~we have an important story to bring back to our church in Malmö, and wait in anticipation of what God will continue to teach us and how He will use us to encourage our church on our journey together in welcoming the refugee.

Icing the knees....Barb managed to take a tumble down the stairs...

A slice of heaven ~ singing and worshiping together in so many different languages!

A ministry visit ~ those who are caring for young unaccompanied minors

Tools for our toolbox ~ what we took home back to Malmö!

Because it’s our biblical mandate.

And because we love Jesus.

And want to serve the world that He’s called us to serve in our world.