Off Again

I am headed back to Germany on Saturday April the 28. I will be going back to the same place in Germany that I was before. I will be doing another School! It is called a school of Strategic Missions! It is a school that will prepare me for being a missionary full time later in life (hopefully)  a lot of what this school focuses on is Church planting and a lot of stuff what it takes to get a ministry started in certain  places. I am very excited for what aim going to be doing. I will also be working with some other people in Germany doing ministry with them so it will not all be school stuff It will be a lot of ministry as well. I am very excited! 

Please continue to keep me in your prayers! 

Thank y'all very much 

Topics covered in the school include:

• Thinking and Acting Strategically in this hour
• Globalization and its affect on everything
• Cross Cultural Ministry
• Learning new languages and paradigms
• Biblical Christian Worldview
• Strategic Research
• Worship, intercession and spiritual warfare in strategic missions
• Church Planting
• Principles of Mobilization and Church Partnership
• People Group Advocacy
• Community Development strategies
• Leadership development
• Urban strategies
• Strategic Initiatives in the spheres influence in society
• Team development

DTS Is Over

It has ben a Awesome 6 months, God has revealed Himself to me in so many new ways. And I also met so many young people that are on fire for God! Over and over again I got to see Gods faithfulness.

The Last 3 weeks were very good! We got to go on a Faith walk witch is where you don't take any money and you just go where God tells you and you get to see Him provide for you. There was a group of 5 of us and we went out with nothing. Some groups took sleeping bags and there backpacks with extra clothes. But my group didn't take anything, I took my toothbrush :) It was awesome we always had a place to stay and we never missed a meal It was such a amassing time to of watching God provide for us. The last 2 weeks where back in Herrnhut we had lecture the 2nd to last week each one of our staff spoke to us for the last time. They spoke what was on there heart, preparing us to go back home. The last week they talked to us a little bit more about going home, it was really good. On thursday night was our graduation night. we had our graduation it was a good time. Afterward we ended with worship! It was so good! It was a awesome time to end the school with worship.

Also I will be headed home very shortly! America, green chili, Dr. Pepper, Hamburgers, just America!! 

Dutch Pancakes

The Last week I was in Heerde Holland, I had the privilege of staying with a host family while I was there. There was a very fun family to be with, when we first arrived there was American flags on a few of the doors so that was really special. The husband of the family spoke broken english and broken german enough where I could understand him. While we were there we did some a lot of street evangelism and had a few good talks with people. We had nobody come to Christ from it but God can work in there life. One of the Ladies that two of the girls in my group was staying with, she invited us over one afternoon and here grandson also came who wasn't a Christian and we got to talk to him, he didn't give his life to Christ that day but he did the next day PTL! We also did a program in a few youth services and also in a Church service that was broadcast on the radio. We shared what we did on outreach and shared some encouraging testimony and a few times some of us preached. We also went into some homes where then have small groups and we got to go there and share some more with them. It was a really good week I really enjoyed it. We got to do a lot of different things, building up the church like Paul talks about a lot, and also street evangelism talking to people about Christ. Another really fun thing is they ride bike everywhere, so i got to ride a bike from the house i was staying to the house where we would meet every morning that was really fun and it is so flat that it is really easy, it something that I wouldn't hardly do at home. It was such a good week God is good!!

                The Front Gate                  

A House In The Woods A Little Ways From 

Where I Stayed

Real Dutch Shoes

A Real Dutch Bike (There Are Fake Ones Too)

Jayson C Wendeborn 

Go God!!

Amsterdam

I have been in Amsterdam for about a week now and on saturday morning I am going to a Dutch village and we will be doing a lot of street evangelism and also we will doing speaking in Churches about what God did on our outreach! I am also really excited for this next week. While we are here in Amsterdam it has ben a week of debrief about our 9 weeks of outreach and also a week to recover from all of the work and the busy schedules that we had. The debriefs have gone well it has really helped me to look back and remember things and bring back to my remembrance of what we saw God do on outreach and how God worked through us. It has been a very good week.

So hopefully I will have a little bit more to share next time I update my blog.

Athens

Athens where to began! When we hear on the news about the financial crisis that Greece is in, I guess in American we think it doesn't matter it isn't effecting me. But once you are here and see it for your self. WOW. The Greeks are very effected by it. But not nearly as bad as all of the immigrants. Many of the people in Athens are from Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan. They come from there homes to Europe seeking a better life. But I would think that it is worse. I talked to one guy from Afghanistan he has ben in Athens for six yeas the first four years he was in Athens he lived on the streets. to me it doesn't sound like it would be better. but what do I know. I am so privileged where I live. In America I never have to go to bed hungry to sleep in a park bench. I am so privileged to be a American! One encouraging thing is all of the Afghans that I have talked to Love America and Love the Army and are thankful for what we are doing in Afghanistan.

Most of the work we are doing here in Athens Is working with different organization that are working with the Immigrants and homeless people. (2 of the 3 organizations that I have worked with are American based and the U. S. embassy and some of the Greek churches supplies one of the organizations with clothing for the families) Most of the time the people come to these places at certain times and we would feed them and meal and share the gospel with them. One of the organizations is for families with children and another one is for single men. It is encouraging to see these organizations at work and work along side them and see the people get fed and even more important hearing about Jesus. Most of the people from Afghanistan say they are muslim, but they do not actually practice.

Please be praying for Greece and the hard financial situation that there are in. Also pray that God would give us the strength to keep going strong this the ministers. Also when I see this it reminds me to pray for my country because I do not want to see my country go through what Greece s going through.

Thank you for your prayers
Jayson Caleb Von Wendeborn

Last Week in Italy

Happy New Year!
This year has already be a very exciting year so far! last week in Cosenza we did a youth camp at a church! It went really well, everybody in my team had a chance to speak at it and the main topic of the week was on hearing Gods voice. I did my talk on Prayer. We also got to do a lot of street evangelism with the youth as well. For some of them it was the first time they did street evangelism but they did a good job. We got to have so really good conversations with the youngsters. And one of our guys played the guitar and he got the play with some young people that and build a connection with them. We didn't convert any to Christ but we got to show Gods love for them through us and just show them that having a relationship with Gods isn't boring that some people make it out to be. We could show them its so much fun and we are really sincere in what we believe. One time me and some of the guys started talking about poker. and I always have a deck of cards with me (you never know when you have time for a game of Euchre) and I got out my cards and showed them how to shuffle and do the bridge and do the spring. because in Europe most people don't know how do shuffle that is just a american thing, and it opened a door to talk with them.

This week we are getting to do a lot more street evangelism and pass out tracts and talk to those that will listen to us. It is real good because the people in Italy are very open and a lot of them know of God because  of the Catholic church but they don't know about a real relationship with Jesus Christ.

Thank you all of your prayers! I am also praying for all of you that God will bless in this New Year.

With Christ

Jayson

This is suppose to be the place where paul landed when he came to Italy to go before Caesar 

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

Sorry it has been so long since I have updated this! Internet is very limited.
After I left Switzerland on the 15th of Dec we went back to Germany to get our visas and then I went back to Switzerland on the 17th (so 2 9 hour drives with 1 day in between) to meet one of the guys in our DTS and to be with the France and Spain team for a few more days. Then my team picked me up on the way from Germany to Italy and we made it to Italy in the early morning of the 20th. We spent a few days in Turin doing street evangelism and working with a church there and we did a few church services with them. Then we travel south on the 24th we went to Piza and saw the Tower of Piza and we also went to Florence then we traveled to Rome and spent Christmas day in Rome! Rome is a very Beautiful city and I got to see a lot of things. The next morning we traveled to Naples and worked with a church there and did 2 church services in 2 days with them and also some street evangelism. Then we traveled to Catanzaro where we have ben sense the 28th and we will leave here on the 2nd of January. It has been a very fun and exciting time of outreach! I have seen God do some really amassing things! Please keep me in your prayers!

Thank you very much and God Bless!!
Jayson