Romania, here I come!

I'm excited to tell you all that I'm headed to Romania in August. It will be for a short term mission, but I am hoping that it will lead to more.

Over the past year and a half that I've been home, the doors to go seem to have been closed. Either what I was planning to do was changed in the field or God just didn't give me peace to step out, and I know there were also moments when I stepped back out of fear.

But now, I am happy to tell you that I have a ticket and my bags are packed! Well, ok, it's a little too soon for that last part, but I've been mentally packing them since I bought the ticket. 

I'll be going for 10 days with Operation Mobilization and then visiting my friends at Calvary Chapel Bucharest before coming back. I'm looking forward to biking through part of Romania with the short term team with OM! We are starting from Pitesti, which I am told is not terribly mountainous (actually the word used to describe it was "flat," but I'm not getting my hopes up too much, knowing that the Carpathian and Transylvanian Alps are nearby).

So with that news posted for the world to see... i think I will go get on my bicycle while there is still light and get a ride in for today. I've started training for the trip. So far I know that I can bike ten miles in a stretch with just one biking buddy. At the end of the month I'm going to try biking 15 miles with a group.