Move from Michigan to Tennessee (1) Originally uploaded by pcpersson Howdy! After quite a bit of adventure flying stand-by from Vienna to Grand Rapids (I had to find lodging in Paris and New York enroute to Michigan - all unplanned), I finally made it to Grand Rapids to help my brother-in-law and niece move some of their things [...]

Hi for one last time today! We have been very fortunate to have had our daughter, Birgitta, her husband, Brad and their children, Maddax and Vienna here for the last 10 days. We don´t ever have enough time together and so we try to enjoy every minute that we can. They were to have flown [...]

Hi again. Tomorrow, August 3 has special meaning for Celeste and me, and Sunday August 24 is a sort of personal milestone that normally doesn´t get recognized by normal people! First, tomorrow is our 34th wedding anniversary, which of course is a meaningful event for the two of us. We both praise God for His [...]

Howdy! My concluding report about the European Soccer Championship has had to wait a while because I hadn´t received anything official from the task force leading the charge here in the Vienna area. But I finally was able to get something in writing, which I include below. I hope that this isn´t the concluding report [...]

Hey there! The final game of the EURO has finally come - it will start in just over 2 hours as I write this. Yesterday was the big outreach downtown. We were able to hand out 1000s of pieces of literature, whistles with a gospel message and game attached, as well as mints with a cute [...]

Thanks for your prayers during our outreach this week. Lots of conversations are taking place in the downtown area for which we are very grateful. In the 2 previous weeks quite a number of people apparently became believers, and some this week as well! It has been very warm and we have had some terrific/terrifying [...]

Hey there. Nothing big in one sense to report today, but I wanted to relate to you something that just happened to me. I was downtown checking in with the people who are leading the evangelistic charge during the EURO just to make sure that everything was in order for the coming of a short-term team [...]

Surge Outreach 7 Originally uploaded by pcpersson The Cascade Surge, a soccer team made up of Christian soccer players from the States is here right now doing outreach through soccer. If you follow the link to our pictures you can see some of their activities. This last Saturday they played a local soccer team where one of [...]

Fan Mile 1 Ursprünglich hochgeladen von perssonpc Hey there! The outreach during the European Soccer Championship is about the begin for me here in Vienna. In the downtown area a huge pedestrian zone has been set up so that people can come to watch the games together. Many groups are using this opportunity for outreach. For example, a [...]

The European Soccer Championship is taking place in Austria and Switzerland right now. We had a “Public Viewing”; in our church basement last night. I unfortunately took these pictures at a time when many weren´t there yet. Dumb! But we had a number of outsiders there, which was the point of the evening. [...]

The idea behind this blog, just like almost every other one, is to report on the journey that the blog writer(s) are on. Let me report to you on a very down-to-earth part of our trip - the fuel costs here. I just calculated that a gallon of diesel is now $8.31! Ouch! Just like [...]

P5110040 Originally uploaded by pcpersson I don´t suppose that you can say that there is such a thing as a “typical Austrian Sunday” but Celeste and I did experience something yesterday that is very common here, and very good for the soul as well as for relationships in a church - let me explain. Yesterday (May 11) was [...]

Group Picture at our Spring Getaway Originally uploaded by pcpersson Every year from Palm Sunday to around (Maundy) Thursday (Green Thursday here), our team of WorldVenture people, along with some longtime friends of our team´s and usually a couple of additional invited guests, gets together to reflect, pray, and have fun for a few days. [...]

experiencing God more deeply Originally uploaded by pcpersson One of our supporting churches asked us recently to send a picture of us doing something that we typically do. I decided to send this one showing me (on the right) leading a course on the spiritual disciplines. Actually we have 2 groups taking the course, which [...]

Hey there. Not having a scientific background I usually can´t understand any discussion in that realm. For a number of months I have been receiving monthly emails from a former WorldVenture missionary in Italy who discusses facts of nature that even I can understand, at least most of the time. Here is his latest post that [...]