Well, it's finally happened. Four years later than we had envisaged. But it's happened. Friday afternoon, we sailed into full-time ministry!! No more "Logos Hope - construction zone"! WOO HOO! After a smooth 17 hour sail, we pulled up to an icey berth in Gothenbourg, Sweden. There were islands and lighthouses and shorelines and bays all covered in layers of white on each side of us...so beautiful. It's a very unusual feeling to be watching all this unfamilier beauty unfold out the window as I work on a pumpkin soup! We sluiced through this giant slushy and pulled into the queyside, and by night time, it had built it'self a new layer of ice all around us again! It looks insane to see the sun glaring off the ice and snow, and our ship sitting in the middle of it all!
Last night there was more snow falling than I've ever seen, and it was knee depth within a few hours! I even took the galley garbage out to the skip in my t-shirt with this crazy snow swirling all around! It was so crazy! Then the captain announced a giant snowfight. So war was declared on the queyside, and I even managed to score snow up my nose...then we ran inside and had ICECREAM! And hot pancakes and delicious syrupy hot chocalate...it was SO good.
Plus, I got to make history by being in the first official-ministry-phase-Logos-Hope team! We headed off to a drug rehab at 1pm Friday, and presented the ship ministry to these guys, then sat around and chatted for a few hours. One guy was really touched and shared his whole long story with us of being a bully and a nazi and a druggie and in and out of lock up and how he didn't believe in God. But after sharing his life, he realised how many times he should have died and didn't, and it surprised him. He's only 22. I don't know where he stands with God right now, but he told me that if God can heal his Hep C, then he won't be able to help but believe in Him. He has an appointment in 3 weeks. If you want, you can pray for healing or for God to reveal himself. He's a lovely guy. His name's Yohan.
That would be sweet.
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