Klaipeda: Hellos + Good-byes

My first day back in Klaipeda I met up with seven or so students who were SLI students from the previous year who had just arrived for their first week of class at LCC!! We swapped summer stories and played a whole bunch of tunes. We were also joined by a couple people I hadn't previously met, who ended up being half the worship team at chapel the next week. It was awesome to get to pray with these old and even some of these new friends! You can pray for them too, they are definitely leaders on campus and God has plans! :)

I also met up with my buddy Robertas, my friend Kristina, and Šarune, who had been in the states interning with a church this summer and was going through a bit of reverse culture shock. As Kristina was leaving, I prayed for a bus to come pick her up, because we weren't sure another was coming, and sure enough, the road cleared and the next car, without any others in sight, was the bus she needed.

On my last evening there, LCC student life had me DJ their "back to school" welcome event. More dancing, games, and fun music. :) After this I met up with Ingrida and Roberta, two very different friends with hearts for God. Ingrida had just seen the Pope in Spain, but saw God more in a German church who took them in when their whole bus broke down and they had to send for another one from Lithuania! Roberta had some strange and awesome experiences at a Christian youth camp she was involved with. Something about that conversation was just cool, God was speaking through me and was definitely in that conversation even before we prayed.

Then, after less than a week back, I had to say good-bye to LT. I met Skaiste and her sister in the morning before school to say good-bye to them, before bidding adieu to my mom and Kate. Unfortunately, my dad was in California because of medical issues so I didn't get to see him this time around. Hopefully they'll get him sorted this week, you can pray for that, so far he's having to teach his courses online. :(

I must say, I miss Lithuania, and my friends. Pray for LCC, it is so cool the things God is doing there. Pray for my sisters, Kate and Skaiste, and my parents that God would annoint them, use them and show them how He wants to do that this year. Pray that we would all grow in faith.