Frederick Beuttler's blog: Week 3: Basics of Faith

Well, I've been here for 3 weeks, and I've got to say, that it keeps getting better and better. I'm growing so much in my relationship with God.

The speaker that was speaking this week was Christane Keller, a German woman, who spoke about the Cross and Basics of Faith. She explained even more about the character of God, and the reasons we believe in very simple language.

On Friday, we all had a Culture Night, where we all introduced our countries. Me and Jessica presented the US. We didn't say much about the nation as a whole, but she talked a bunch about Minnesota, and I talked about Chicago and DC. and we made Rice Krispie Treats, which turned out pretty well. but the Swiss don't have any normal marshmallows, so we had to use this odd marshmallow candy. The treats turned out fine, but they were kind of green. But the Germans, the Swiss, and the Dutch gave us all chocolate, so we were pretty happy.

On Saturday, though, we did an outreach in Bern with King's Kids, the children's ministry associated with YWAM. We helped out with a children's program called Jump, that King's Kids was running for the children in a low-income housing area in Bern called the Gabelbach. I helped set up a trampoline, and supervised the kids jumping on it. Then, during the message, I was in a short sketch we did. The message was about everybody being important, but I didn't understand most of it, because it was all in Swiss German (different from regular, or High German), but the skit was about Zaccheus, and I was Townsperson #2. It was outside, though, and really cold (not for me, of course, but I did need to wear two sweatshirts), so not many kids came to the program. Overall, though, it turned out pretty well. I really felt like we were doing God's work.

Here's a picture of one of the buildings at the Gabelbach:

And here's a picture of two of us in animal suits for the kids: Micha, one of the staff, is on the left in the bunny suit, and Allard (the Luxemburger) is on the right in the bear suit.