I have a title!

I am the new Outreach and Education Director for Lydia Today in Athens, Greece. Woohoo!

I will be the liaison between the international agencies working on trafficking, and we hope to have an international conference in Fall of 2009 in Athens for the region on trafficking and training. I get to do a lot of university outreach and education there to recruit and train Greek college students (they speak English), and that will be a little bit of evangelism/ministry/discipleship of my own. I will be teaching the Hands That Heal training a lot (for working with trafficking victims) and I even get to have Vanguard University (and maybe Biola) interns during the school year!

There are lots of language schools there, so I will be able to do some intensive language stuff every day for the first several months and then continue going twice a week...forever (as long as I'm there). I guess between learning the language and finding a place to live, the actual transition stuff is more scary to me than being there. But I'm really excited!

I have an interview for that Salvation Army summer job in the morning. I forwarded my email and resume to the right person this morning and they called not 2 minutes later. I'm a little nervous about that, because it will involve a lot of presentations in Spanish. It has been a long time since I used my spanish regularly. A couple years ago it would have been no problem...we'll see.

Yay Greece! I hope to be there by October. Tentative goal. First I need to graduate from seminary...