Turkey 2010 - Day 1 - Tuesday 10th August

The incredible elation of arriving in a new country is always preceded by 'the journey'. I write this first of many 'Turkey 2010' blogs from the 6.30am easyjet flight bound for Istanbul having traveled by car from Leeds to Gatwick yesterday and then slept for 4 hours in a travel lodge - I can safely say that the team are tired but very very excited - and not just about the 35deg heat that awaits us!

Mosaic mission trips (Durban, Paris, Belfast) have been some of the most amazing experiences of Mosaic members’ lives over the last few years as we as a family of believers continue to trust God not only in our own country, workplaces and families, but in different cultures, countries and contexts around the world and seek to love God, each other, the city, the under-priveleged and the nations of the world.

Today we head to Turkey.  Today, as with everyday, we trust God - but somehow being on a ‘mission trip’ it feels slightly different.  Over the past few weeks I have realised that so often I am asking God about the big things (what happens next? where will we go next?) and not reaching out to Him in the little things, the prayers and petitions for the here and now.  Mission trips enable an opportunity to trust in God for every second and hopefully learn something of His providing nature that will stay with us as a team well on into the future. 

Over the next 10 days, we, as a team, will be blogging as often as we can our thoughts and feelings, stories and testimonies, prayers and worries.  Our hope in doing so is that we will be in your thoughts and prayers, you will be filled with faith for the here and now, and you’ll join us in praying for the difficulties we face daily in a country where none of us know the language or the culture.

Please join us in praying for the nation of Turkey and it’s people, that we would be a blessing to this great nation, and “that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give [us and the people we meet] the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that they may know Him Better… ...[and] that the eyes of their heart may be enlightened in order that they may know the hope to which He has called them, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints, and His incomparably great power for us who believe”. Ephesians 1:15

WORD/PHRASE OF THE DAY:
Tuvalet nerede lütfen? 
[too-va-let ne-re-de lewt-fen?]
Practise saying this phrase over the next day (pronunciation is in brackets underneath), and wait until the next blog to find out the meaning and try a new phrase! Join us as we enjoy this language challenge…