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A typical day in Greece:

Up around 5:30

Breakfast and Personal Devotions

Bus 1 hour to the work site
-either painting at the mental institute or picking up trash in Volos

Work for 5-6 hours

Bus back

Showers and laundry

Supper

Team Devotions

Free time

Reading missionary biographies

Bed at 9:30

Our home base in Greece was a camp owned by the Greek Orthodox Church, so it was a miracle that we were allowed to stay there at all.  They had never had Protestants stay there before.

Our local missionary/pastor was Melleti.  I really liked him.  He’s short and a lot of fun!  He spent four years trying to lead people to Christ, but they just got offended because they’re already Greek Orthodox.  About four years ago he started serving more than talking and since then has had much better results over time.  They were all so happy that we were there.  My favourite was when I sang a solo in church at the English service.

The goal of our team to Greece was to draw attention to the Gospel and increase the perception of evangelicals who are held in very low esteem by picking up trash and painting the fence of a mental institution. 

We wore shirts and hats with messages from the Greek evangelical church while we picked up trash on the highways and byways of Volos for about 5 hours a day. I’ve never seen so much trash. we gave presentations in church at both the Greek and English services to encourage the local believers. The mental institute put a letter of thanks into the biggest newspaper and on the last day the governor of Volos came and put us on TV and so we did leave a  good witness.

 I’m glad I went, and I met great Greek people plus my team members and ate amazing food. 

We put Thálion on the plane in Spokane, Washington this morning. We got a call from him by the time we arrived back home—he has completed his flights and should be at Boot Camp now. Please continue to pray for him.

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My name is Thálion Friesen. I’m thirteen years old, and I’ll be travelling to Suriname this summer. This is my web site.