Work Day

It rained off and on during the day, which made it easy to spend most of the day inside working on various projects. We had a good team meeting today in which Ron, Peggy and I talked about our experience thus far – how we sensed God working or not working in us – as well as how we feel we are entering into the life of the people here. I spent the morning reviewing the videos for the next two sessions, seeing if there were any possible problems. Good thing, as the entire session three was missing from the Teen program (Session Two was in twice, the second time as Session Three). So I tracked Metin down and we worked on fixing that. By the end of the day we had Session Three in place. Final translation of the video narrator text was completed today as well, so bit by bit, we’re getting all the pieces in place to get through the final sessions.

We spent the evening at the home of Metin and Özlem. (see picture) Metin works with students at the university (along with Pam, who has been my liaison with the church for this project), and he and Özlem were my hosts the last time I was in Turkey. They are expecting their first child the day we are scheduled to leave, which is unfortunate timing, as I would love to be here when the baby is born. Peggy will be attending a shower for Özlem on Friday. She fixed a rather tasty dish of meat stuffed in eggplant, which, despite my deep-seated aversion to eggplant, being a guest, I ate it all (almost). It was actually pretty good. My wife would be proud. :)

In all, a good day for reflecting, planning, preparing and visiting.

Charlie