Wedding Plans and European Prayer Catch-Up

The last several days have been full of wedding plan activity. The wedding planning itself hasn't been too exciting, but it's been really good to be able to spend time with Kristy every day. Obviously, she's enjoying the whole thing more than me, which puts a little smile on my face to see her excitement. There's been a little stress, due primarily to the fact that we're just getting on top of some things that are usually done 3-5 months before a wedding (e.g., pre-marital counseling, purchase of a wedding dress, invitations, etc.) It's all good though. Hopefully the invitations will be going out in the mail tomorrow or Friday. We got some help from a woman who works at Kinkos named Heidi. Heidi was a student in the youth ministry where I interned during my Bible college years. It's been good to see her and talk about some memories that we share together from our days at Brush Prairie Baptist Church.

In the midst of all this transitioning back into life in these United States and wedding planning, I realized today that I've neglected my personal commitment to pray for Europe! So I'm hoping to get back into that. I've missed Russia, Slovakia, and Slovenia. (Kristy posted a nice little prayer for Romania, if you hadn't noticed.)

I think Russia could particularly use prayer in light of the corruption that exists at so many different levels of society, due in part to a former-KGB president who regrets the fall of communism and the Soviet Union. Pray that God's people would exist there as a voice of light and redemption and Jesus-like character.

I'm going to try and have a colleague in Slovakia provide a prayer for that county, since he has been doing youth ministry there for several years.

And Slovenia? I have absolutely no idea how to pray for that country. Try the link above for some prayer requests, and then click here for more info. about the country. Answers.com always has a wealth of information as well.

That's it for now. I'm currently reading a book that has me doing some very deep thinking about the missional nature of the church. I'm hoping to blog some thoughts from that book in the near future. Stay tuned . . .