burnin the midnight oil

I don't write about my studies because quite frankly, I'm not sure how many would be interested. I've had essays due this past week and in typical schmiddy style, I'm crammin them. Either spend months and slowly research and write essays, or get 'em done when they matter:) They're worth 75% of my grade for each class, and in some classes, you're entire grade is based on one essay. No messing around in post-grad I suppose.
Better get it right the first time:)
Tony's great, he's working on a master's in counseling part-time and wrote his first essay in 2 1/2 decades.........he wouldn't let us read his esaay:)

eating with jesus

what's the first miracle recorded in the Gospels?

Why do you think it was the first and what was its importance?

Tony explores the connection between Christ's ministry and social settings and the powerful implications it offers us as believers.

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Edinburgh Capitals

We have been meeting the most interesting people around here:
We've been looking into different flats because our current flat is just too expensive with $500/month council tax (we're in the most expensive tax bracket because it's in the dead center of the city). We met a letting agent, Nicola, who happened to be very helpful. We saw a few places through her, and Kate began getting to know her a bit.
She's a professional balet dancer, and her boyfriend is a professional hockey player. He played in Sweden for a while, but is back in Edinburgh playing for the Capitals. She invited us to go to one of his games, so he got us into the game for free. I haven't been to a hockey game in ages, but it was a ton of fun.
Following the game, we went into the VIP bar where the players and close friends get together. We hung out with Steven (her boyfriend). His dad happens to be a professional golfer and plays in Germany, so Steven has also just started a golf clothing line. Another player on the team is from Canada who finished up at Yale recently in Economics! These hockey players were super cool.
They invited us to Steven's birthday party this monday with some of the guys from the team.
We are constantly reminded by the Lord that we are here for his purposes and is blessing our passion to meet people.

what a night!

The Murder Mystery was a happenin' good time! I was Captain Ratcliffe, the man about town. Let's just say I was kind of a big deal for the evening.

Kate was a widow in mourning because someone had killed her husband. A side note, I was supposed to look like I was from 1899, though I think my mustache look ended up going the 70's burt reynolds route. We had 40 show up for our party and had a blast!

It's been several months since we arrived, and we've already felt like the Lord is allowing us to have such incredible friends. We're all in this together and I'm sensing this ethos that we keep wanting to emulate is beginning to take shape.

Half the people there had never been to Eikon, but it didn't matter. Everyone seemed to interact very naturally. It was such a great way to break the ice, especially with the friends that Kate and I have connected with so much. Tony got up and less than briefly shared about Eikon and to check us out sometime.

We love this city so much. Kate and I keep telling each other that we're more pumped than ever to be here and building this ministry with the people the Lord has given this small-group church, as we like to call it.

Keep praying for this ministry. We're going to say it all the time, but all you supporters out there: we can't thank you enough for investing in us and Eikon. Maybe it's just this time of the year that allows us to reflect, but we've continued to be blown away by how many people are behind this ministry.

girls team

Kate had the entire Edinburgh University soccer team over to our flat tonight for dinner and rowdy games. I'm in the back studying and all I hear is girls screaming and giggling.
It was great though, Kate is the oldest on the team and the only married one, so she's the elder:) She's been really good with them, they seem to all really look up to her, excited for the relationship's she's building with these girls.

Murder Mystery

Kate and Yvonne have been working like crazy to put together this great Eikon event. I'm sure some of you have participated in these: mystery murder parties.
For those who don't know; it's a gathering of x amount of people to try and solve a mystery. Everyone is given a character that they must play the entire evening and you interact with other characters to piece together clues. It's a great way to meet people and can be halarious. Our mystery murder takes place in 1899, so everyone must dress accordingly.

Anyways, the response has been phenomenal. We rented out a facility that could have roughly 40 people, and we're having to turn down a number of people because we're already over our capacity. Most people's eyes light up when we mention it's a mystery murder. We're praying that this will be a great way to connect and if successful, begin planning these every so often as a great tool for bringing people together and sharing what Eikon is about.

We're also providing a buffet dinner, so we're really pumped for this event!

The event is this friday.

lady in red

I caught this woman looking at me for a split second. They were at the market the other day.

fresh air event

We've started having "fresh-air events" every few weeks. Yesterday, we went to the German market with everyone and got some hot chocolate, and saw the sites.

We ended at our flat and played a competitive game of Cranium. It's so true: games really magnify people's personalities. It was fun to laugh and enjoy each other for the afternoon.

Here's myself and Mike (Master's Commission Director) ad-libbing and acting stupid (joking about how large our event for Eikon was). Obviously, in all seriousness, we had a great time with the people that came out for the event.
There's also a shot of this boy, literally 14 years old that was juggling with a knife over someone's head!

fresh air event

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