WiLLoW fReAk...wHaT a tRiP !!!

I don't even know where to start (I warn you this is gonna be long...but with a lot of pictures)...
we arrived 2 days ago from "Willow Freak" (Jesus Freaks Leadership gathering) in Germany, but we're still recovering...I went with Jasmin, Ben and Juran (this picture is in the way back...we're totally knocked out)...it was really cool to not travel alone this time... It was really hard for all of us to go to Germany when we were already enjoying the summer here...it was literally like going back to winter...And that was NO FUN AT ALL !!! We are so glad to be back in summer again :-) ...
Ok, at Frankfurt-Hahn, we had a ride with Debora, leader of "Jesus Freaks-Frankfurt", a real sweet heart and a blessing to us all... it all went fine to meet her and start the trip...till the car broke :-( half an hour away from the airport, we were not even in Frankfurt yet (for those who don't know, Frankfurt-Hahn is about 150 Km out of Frankfurt :-) )...So we waited around 2 hours till the tow truck came to pick us up...
cool truck by the way... Ben is next to me right now and he wants me to make sure I will mention that we had to add more and more layers of cloth every once in a while because of the cold (poor guy, he suffered)...well, we even had to exercise coz we couldn't wait inside the car (german rule) and it was getting too cold for us...Thank God the rain had stopped !!! "Nach mude com bleut" !!! - a german proverb I learnt last year :-), I'm sure I spell it wrong, but it basically means "when you get tired, you get silly"...I guess we were on that stage :-)...at least we kept the good humor :-)
But check out the car we got in exchange :-) ... much better... I guess God was planning ahead...you'll understand when I mention the way back :-)... the car that broke was an old one from Debora's mom and unfortunately there's no repair :-( ... but she was not so bummed with that...Thank God for ADAC !!! :-)...
The rest of the trip was smooth and nice ... having time for some sleep as well :-)...





















After more or less 3 hours driving, we finally arrived in "Siloah", a christian Eco Village where "willow Freak" took place ... It's such a beautiful place... I love it and it brought me good memories of last year when I met the Jesus Freaks for the first time :-) ... I feel like family among them already !!!
It was really nice to see again all those I met last year during my trip, specially those with whom I got to spend more time in the rainbow gathering or those who came by to Lisbon...
Besides the weather, rain and cold, we had really cool times in worship and prayer, hanging out with people and having fun...we spent a night till 2am just jamming with a guitar, "self made" percussions and goofy lyrics... we also found some sun glasses which all those around had to put on... it was really fun, and I loved Silvia's laugh, a girl from Poland I just met there, I couldn't stop laughing with her :-)...you know when it gets contagious?! we were like that !!!




This was the goofiest guy making up lyrics...He wan the night award !!! :-)

This is why I never use sunglasses :-) ... Maybe I don't have enough nose :-) of too small face...





Our troubadour...


Amazing worship time with this acoustic group...

And also some anointed hard core worship with Obadja...check out www.obadja.com (link on the title)
They started from Willow Freak their tour around Germany, Czech Republic and Poland...and after the tour they will keep moving as a "Mobile Church", taking the presence of God wherever God will take them with the vans :-) One of the couples, Frauke and Dominike want to come down to Portugal for the winter to have their baby :-)... Pray for this family on the road!!! This "Mobile Freak Gemeind"... And support them in whatever means if you feel led to...

The place we slept after the first night... I actually slept well in the tent, but I was between Ben and Jasmin and they didn't say the same... too cold for them... so, we moved to the tea room... it was actually really warm because of the straw :-)... the only problem was that we had to wait till everyone went out so we could come in and make our bed... well, Jasmin in the last day just slept anyway in the middle of a "Sushi Party" :-) where they were sharing about Japan and challenging the freaks to join to what God is doing there among the punks... amazing stuff as well...check it at www.jesusfreaksjapan.de


The cutest little girl...


Amazing times with friends...






O.K., now the way back...and you 'll understand why I said God was thinking ahead... because if we had the old car, most probably was for us to get stuck in the traffic and not get the ADAC tow truck to come to us... we were around 6 hours on a traffic jam... And I thought the traffic in Lisbon was the worst... Juran even went out of the car and walked... we end up meeting a lot of Jesus Freaks also stuck in the traffic...some even used the opportunity to distribute flyers for the "Freakstock" festival :-)

Some got bored and went to the roof of the car :-) Silly Tobi !!!



Ups... the police came....but the guy was nice and understood :-)... anything could be excused after hours in that traffic...

well... some things were weird...like some ladies coming out of the bus to pee, but totally choosing the wrong spot... everyone could see everything...oh no !!! No pictures, don't worry !!!

we also spent a lot of time worshiping with Jason Upton (another detail, the car that broke had no music :-) )


But the worst was to choose between MacDonald and Burger King to eat....there's nothing else along the high-way, besides the expensive stopping places...oh well, I surrendered...but at least NO MCDONALD'S, we chose the B.King instead !!! We cannot complain of Portugal on that...we don't miss choices to eat :-)



O.K., this is too long already...
Broken, tired, ill, but really happy to be back in the sun... Check this sun at 8.30am :-) we even got in a convertable :-)



Love you all
Shantii Shantii