Our pre-ship training

Following our 10-day mission training in the Netherlands, we took a bus to Koge, Denmark on Saturday, August 30 for another 10-day training. This training consisted of missionaries all headed to the Logos Hope. The training was held at a very rustic youth hostel about 40 minutes from where the ship is docked. The hostel was set on the North Sea (in the shadow of a Viking Memorial!), so it was quite a gorgeous and peaceful site for the training.

We had a very full 10 days in Koge! We spent the majority of the time going through a Basic Safety Training (BST) course. We learned about fire safety (we each took turns putting a fire out!), crowd management, ship terminology, personal survival, and what to do in many emergency situations. We also completed a basic first aid course. The highlight was spending one afternoon at the pool! We had to flip life rafts and learn all sorts of cool techniques to survive in the case of an emergency. Throughout our time in Koge, we also received training on public speaking, writing and delivering our testimonies, storytelling, relationship building, living and working with other cultures, and more!

There were 70 people at this training from 30 nations!! We’ve started to build friendships with people from France, Mexico, Whales, England, the Netherlands, Japan, Chili, Canada, Germany, Malaysia, South Africa and Singapore… just to name a few! There was just one other married couple at the training, so we spent quite a bit of time with them. The wife is from the USA and the husband is from France, so I've been practicing my French! :)