Update on the trip: Training and Language learning!

Yesterday we began our training!!  It was so good and although all 4 sessions were great, if I would be lying if I didn’t say that Dr. Joseph Dimitriov stole the show in session 4!  I have been telling our GSU students about him for a year, and he lived up to every bit of the hype!  Dr. Joseph is the president of Conntinental Theological Seminary here in Brussels (where we are staying and receiving training for our mission trip).  He grew up in communist Bulgaria and has 3 European doctorate degrees (they are harder to get in Europe than the US btw).  He is brilliant, humble, a gifted speaker, an awesome man of faith, has LIVED through European history (he was in Berlin when the wall came down!).  I can’t begin to blog everything he told us but let’s just say he told us much of his life story and the history of Europe in an hour and a half (a better history lesson than the students have received at their universities, I’m sure!) and at the end had Brad, myself, and everyone else in the room crying…

That’s not a joke…we really were crying as he told us his story of God’s calling on his life and moving mightily to get him out of communist Bulgaria to CTS!