Today Sherrylee and I are leaving for three weeks of extensive travel through Europe for Let’s Start Talking. From the beginning of this missions ministry thirty years ago, we have felt that it was important to know well the sites that we are sending LST teams. It’s important also for them to know LST well. If we don’t know them well, we might send a team to a site that was ill-suited to them. If the mission site doesn’t know us well, their expectations of what would happen when an LST team came could be totally misaligned. Either of these errors can lead to very poor mission projects!
For the next three weeks, we are making very short stops in Turkey, Romania, Ukraine, Hungary, Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium. At the end of our trip, we will attend the Euro-American Retreat in Rothenburg, Germany.
I will not be taking my own computer, so my hope is to be able to get on the internet as we travel in order to keep you up to date. This could mean that the blog schedule for the next few weeks is a little erratic, so I hope you will understand.
It’s going to be a great trip with many good conversations with great missionaries. I hope to introduce you not only to the cities and countries, but to the great heroes of faith that we get to visit on these kinds of trips. You’ll enjoy it, I promise.
So, Auf Wiedersehen–well, not really.
The Germans actually not only use this phrase which means literally “until we see each other again”, but also Auf Wiederhoeren, which they use formally on the telephone to say “until we hear each other again.” I guess I’ll say Auf Wiederlesen–until we read each other again–or something like that!
Mark's Blog 
Au relire et bon voyage!