Courage reflects on Scotland!

Courage here!

I am finally over my jet-lag and am safely back in the states from Scotland. I traveled with seventeen other Athens Link Family members. We set off from the USA on Friday June 3^rd and spent ten heavenly days in Dunfermline with the Scotland Link.

Reunited and feels so good!

OH YES! Mercy and I were ear to ear the whole week during the mega kingdom family reunion. From American football to mountainous “hill” hikes, I had a blast.

This was my first mission trip. What was the mission you say? BUILD BUILD BUILD relationships. They are soooo important to Father God and Jesus. Did you know that the great commission cannot happen without relationships? We need each other. We need community. And it seems to me that relationship between Scotland and Athens Link is really growing. All 18 of us separated among the congregation in Dunfermline. Our host homes were incredible cockle-doodle-doo. They welcomed us like family! Needless to say, Scotland Mission Trip’s mission was fully accomplished.

Here are some of my other highlights from the trip…

Visiting together:

cakes and fellowship!

but most of all...my FAVORITE-FAVORITE part was seeing...

YOU!

Operation Andrew!

Hello everyone! Mercy here... We are still missing all our friends from Athens Link! Courage, please tell them all we said hello. I will see you soon! Katie and Josh have said I can go to America with them next week when they go on holiday and I am so excited about it.

Here at Link Dunfermline we are getting ready for Impact World Tour which is coming to Dunfermline in November. It's going to be great as lots of people will get to hear about Jesus and how much He loves them. Even kids can get involved in getting ready. Operation Andrew is all about praying for your friends. The Bible says this: "The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon... and he took him to Jesus." Just like Andrew brought Simon to Jesus, we can do the same for our friends. Ruth said that the boys and girls in Athens can still join in Operation Andrew even though they will not be in Dunfermline for Impact World Tour. Here is what you have to do -

PRAY - for three friends that don't know Jesus. Pray they will become friends with Jesus and that they'll know how much He loves them.

PLAY - invite your friends to play and be extra nice to them.

SAY - Invite your friends to Impact World Tour (or, if you live in Athens, to come to Athens Link with you!)

Why not start today by drawing a picture of your three friends and writing their names underneath? Then you can put it somewhere where you'll see it every day to help you remember to pray for them. Let us know how you are getting on!

Mercy X

Courage reporting from Scotland!

Howdy y'all! Courage here from Scotland. 17 of my friends from Athens Link came with me on my trip to see my best friend Mercy! We have been having a great time! I have been around some of the kindest people, have seen some awesome sites, and have learned lots of Scottish phrases that I will be using back in Athens! Diana has taken a lot of photos that she will share on here when we get back to Athens. I am so sad that our time is coming to a close!

Sorry for the briefness of this post; I have to go and iron my cape before the big fundraising dance tonight! Whereas the last fundraising dinner was at Chick-fil-A and I didn't go for obvious reasons, I think I'm safe at this one. There is supper before the dancing, and they are serving something called haggis.

I am loving our new dual blog; it is such a great way to stay in touch! And, I can't wait to share pictures and more stories from my time here!

Our new blog!

Hello! Mercy here...

Courage and I have had such a lot of fun this week while he has been in Scotland with the rest of the team from Athens Link. We have stayed so far at Katie and Josh's house with Noriene and Silus, at Daniel's house with Alex and at Ruth's house with Diana. All this time together has meant we could have plenty of long chats and we came up with a fantastic idea!

As you all know I write my Adventures of Mercy blog whenever I go on a mission trip anywhere, and Courage has even written some posts on it recently. That's where I hit on the idea that we could have our own special blog together and that would help us - and the boys and girls in both Link churches - to keep in touch! We'll let you know whenever we write a new post and you can even sign up to get an email telling you when we've written something new.

We're thinking up lots of things to blog about and you can give us your ideas too! I'm feeling a bit sad as tomorrow is Courage and the team's last day here but tonight we are going to the ceilidh at church so we're both very excited about that. I hope I can teach Courage how to do the Scottish dances!

Courage - it is your turn to write a post! And please ask Diana when we can have some photos on here...