Thank you!

Hey! Kiev, Ukraine, March 2, 2007

Wow...what a time in the United States, Denmark and England. We’ve been so richly blessed these last 2,5 months. It’s been wonderful for Jeannette and I to be able to catch up with friends and family members. It’s been great to have so many opportunities to speak about the work we do here in Kiev, Ukraine in various churches in America and Denmark. It’s been wonderful to be able to eat familiar food (no food beat my mom’s food!), go to familiar places, drive in familiar cars, hang out with familiar people, watch familiar tv-shows and movies, relax in familiar couches – all in all it’s been a wonderful time!

We are happy that God gave us all these encouragements these past months. We just wrote down all the blessings that we could think of, and after three pages on the computer, we were still not done.

Our last visit on our trip (which included eight plane trips!) was to our old Youth With A Mission-base, Holmsted Manor, in beautiful countryside England. It was great to be there, meet familiar faces and a lot of new ones, and get a chance to teach on Discipleship in the Discipleship Training School (DTS) there. It was a wonderful, open and teachable group, and I very much enjoyed teaching, discussing and trying to help wherever I could.

God is good! Will be back with more (controversial/interesting/thought provoking) articles soon:-)

And a little piece of travel advice: don’t have your Swiss Army pocket knife in your pocket when you travel by plane....I just lost mine that way. I checked my pocket right before the security check, found my knife and just decided to hand it to the security check lady straight away. I guess there was no way they would allow me to bring a knife, when you can hardly bring a bottle of water on planes these days...;-)

Two small travel stories from the big world: When we arrived in London Heathrow, Europe’s largest airport, there were big, beautiful British Airways-colored banners wishing us welcome in all kinds of languages. I could understand 10-15 of them and could recognize that they all said “welcome”, but the Danish one said “Glæde Sig”, which makes absolutely no sense in Danish, and translated means something like “Forward To”. I did tell some personel in the airport about the mistake, while adding that it would probably only be 10 million people (Denmark and Norway) who would notice anyway:-)

And in Miami’s International Airport: There were hundreds of signs saying how many ounces of liquid you could bring on the connecting flights in America, but nowhere did it say how many ml. you could bring. I did mention that to a security worker that it might make life easier for them, if they wrote some signs saying the allowed measurements in milliliters, since they deal with tens of thousands of international passengers every day and since ounces is really only used in the US and a few like-minded countries. To my surprise, he looked as if I had told him something surprising:-)

God bless, Torben