Freddie and Kandee 
Before After Freddie, eldest of four children, left-hander, easy-going, positive-thinker, day-dreamer, romantic, love for variety, adventure. ENFP in the Meyers-Briggs. I-s in the DiSC. Compare the photos. He lost 35 lbs., and now no more double chin! "Music, all kinds, Jazz may be my favorite, but I love all music. Wow! I love Celtic music too! And Salsa, and all kinds of international music. I love the golden oldies, of course. I love love songs and music from the classic musicals, such as My Fair Lady, Oklahoma, American in Paris, and so many more! Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, all those famous singers from days gone by! Also like David Gray, Damien Rice, Coldplay, Bryan Duncan, Simon and Garfunkel, Beatles, Enya, Michael Card, Michael W. Smith, Harry Connick, Jr., Michael Buble, Nora Jones, Louis Armstrong, George Benson, Dave Brubeck, Emmylou Harris, Mercy Me, Steven Curtis Chapman, Carol King, Carpenters, Bread, Nickel Creek." "I like food! Amazing tastes and textures! I love different specialty cuisines, French, Italian, oh, and Indian is one of my very favorite types of cuisine!!! I love hot sauces, in all different shapes, colors and sizes!!! Habanero is my favorite hot pepper. I love to make my own hot sauces. Did you know that Hot Sauces are really good for you? I love food with garlics and onions! Tarragon is one of my favorite spices and cardamom and curry. I love fresh ginger and any fresh fruit! I enjoy espressos. I love my cappuccino for breakfast. I love wines, drink only in moderation! Red wine in particular, which is good for you, when taken in moderation. I also like dark chocolate, at least 70%. I eat a little bit every day, for my health!" "I like words, ideas, creative thinking, thinking outside the box, brainstorming, dreaming, the imagination. "What if" is one of my favorite sentence starters. Possibilities, opportunities, potential. I tend to be a positive thinker, an incorrigible optimist. I love languages, word origines, grammar, expressions, proverbs, adages, sayings, work plays, word pictures, writing." "I love symbols, symbolisms, studying traditions, understanding people's superstitions, meanings behind names, colors and numbers. I love art, photography, theater. I love mimes, clowns and puppets." "I love learning new things, discovering, serendipity, looking closer at things, backing up and seeing things from farther back, seeing the big picture, a wise man is always learning." "I love growing, changing, getting better, learning new skills, enjoying new things, hearing new sounds, tasting new foods, seeing new things, feeling new things. Sensing with all five senses! Sometimes even a sixth sense. I want to always learn from my mistakes and stay humble in my successes." "I sleep lightly and dream a lot. My dreams are usually funny, strange, but rarely scary and sad. I remember my dreams almost every morning for the first half hour of my day. I sometimes write down my dreams. I have learned from my dreams. But mostly I have laugh a lot from my dreams.
I like to relax, play, read, watch movies, talk about movies, talk about dreams, talk about experiences, talk about little things or just to sit there. I like smelling flowers, watching the sunrise or sunset. I love watching the moon and the stars, finding constelations and seeing falling stars." "I'm sentimental. I am sensitive. I cry at parades, rodeos, fireworks, recitals, weddings, funerals and at least once during most movies. I get all teary-eyed when I see a dad walking with his son, a grandpa playing with his granddaughter, a baby take his first steps, two people reconciling their differences. Without trying too, I usually begin weeping when some else is weeping. Weep with those who weep. Laugh with those who laugh." For more explanation of my personality type according to Meyers-Briggs: Please Understand Me 
Kandee, eldest of three children, artistic, creative, decorater, product-oriented, practical, speed-reader. ISTJ in the Meyers-Briggs. I-d in the DiSC. In music, Kandee likes classical: Vivaldi, Tschaikovsky. She actually likes the sound of silence more that other people do. In books, we loves to read: historical novels, missionary biographies. In food, she likes simple recipes, although she is a teacher of cooking. She does like French cuisine, Indian cuisine. She is an artist, who has painted portraits, has painted in water-color, oil, arcrylic, pastel, charcoal. She has created many things with her hands, sowing, building. She likes to stencil, grow flowers. She prefers sunny weather. She is a very amazing conversationalist, an great teacher, a singer, and musician (piano, oboe, trumpet, guitar). 
Here's a photo of Kandee and Freddie at the GEM conference (August 2005) in Budapest, Hungary. Harris Herald Fall Edition Freddie and Kandee Harris, Missionaries in Europe Fall 2006 Berlin, Germany — The World Soccer championship in Germany this summer offered Christians an amazing opportunity to preach the good news to thousands of people from all over the world! EuroTeam partnered with an Evangelistic umbrella organization, Kickoff 2006, proving to be an excellent collaboration! Kickoff 2006 had stations at two key locations: at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Gedächtniskirch (Memorial Church), one of Berlin’s most famous landmarks, and at the Brandenburg Gate “Fan Mile.” Both Kickoff stations were in a place where literally thousands of people passed by every day! Our team gave free cool water to passers-by who came to rest a few minutes in our lawn chairs at the Memorial Church station., taking opportunities as they presented themselves, to talk to people about God. Our “Fan Mile” station had games for people to play as well as a world map, where people could put a pin on their own town. “Wo wohnen sie?” People were so fascinated by the multitude of countries that were represented. Freddie said, “There were so many people from all over the world that by the end of each day the world map looked like a huge porcupine!” Kickoff 2006 had very attractive pieces of literature which presented the gospel and testimonies of Christians soccer players who were participating in the World Cup. Anna was a Chinese-American on our EuroTeam team. A Buddhist for 50 years, she had only been a Christian for about five years. Whenever she saw a Chinese walking by our Kickoff 2006 station, she walked up to them and began talking to them about God. She had never shared Christ like this before, but her excitement for the Lord was contagious. She led several of them to the Lord! It was a very special joy to have three French Christians on our outreach team in Berlin. Having French speakers on our team was definitely an advantage. Myriam, one of the French members, being Alsatian, also had a mastery of German, which was very helpful. Samuel, another French member, spoke French and Dutch. Our EuroTeam team had the privilege of working side-by-side with German Christians, as well as teams from many other countries: Lithuania, South Africa, Cameroons, Korea, Singapore, Australia, England, Brazil, and other teams from North America. We were all there for the same cause: to share the good news with those who need it and to fortify the Christian family. We’d get together and pray before and after our outreach activities. God worked in us and through us in Berlin. Romanian Pastors Conference Bucharest, Romania — This Fall we will do our second European Pastors Conference. Last year we did a conference for Romanian pastors in the western part of Romania. This year we will be in Southeastern Romania, a poorer part of Romania, both economically and spiritually. Entering a village evangelical church has the feel of walking into a nursing home, with the odd absence of children and young families. The Romanian evangelical church is going to die, if children and families are not reached. Today, there is an exciting window of opportunity open to us. Our conference theme this year will very appropriately be “Contending for the Faith and the Family.” The average Romanian pastor oversees 5 to 7 churches at one time. He unselfishly dedicates most of his time, including evenings and weekends, to visiting his churches, leading Bible studies, doing funerals. The village pastoral couples have no access to spiritual resources such as Christian radio or TV, Christian book stores, Christian ministries that could encourage them. The village pastors need encouragement. Our EuroTeam team will be there to encourage these pastors and their wives. Our team is composed of North American Christians, some teaching pastors, but all of them will be there with the express purpose of encouraging and uplifting Romanian/Moldovan Church leaders and their spouses. We will be there to bless these Christians, who suffer so selflessly in the service of the Lord, to "wash the saints feet," as it were. Freditorial: "Pray without ... snoring." This morning I woke up with one of those nauseating sinus headaches. Sometimes after my hot shower and hot cappuccino, the pain subsides, but this morning I felt a little more desperate, so I resorted to a Benadryl, which makes me feel drowsy, yet relieved. At our 9:00 EuroTeam prayer time, I had been asked to close in prayer. I jokingly told the person next to me to nudge me if necessary. I was following the prayers of others relatively coherently ... until the last person's prayer. As the person was finishing his prayer, I fazed out, for what I guessed to be a couple seconds. I suddenly realized that there had been an awkward silence as everybody waited for me to close in prayer. I got teased a bit. One of my wittier colleagues said, "Hey, Freddie, remember to pray without ... snoring." I made a bee-line for the espresso-maker. A triple shot, please! As I work at my desk this morning, I am listening to some loud music, in my earphones. At least I don't have a headache. When I was studying at Multnomah Bible College, I remember going to the campus chapel across from the boys dorm, which looked like the stereotypical little country church. I got up every day to pray in this chapel. On some days I had stayed up late to finish homework so I was more tired than normal. One morning I fell asleep during my prayer and when I woke up I realized that I had slobbered all over my Bible! "Hey, Freddie, remember to pray without ... slobbering." Graduated from Multnomah, I came to France for my very first time. I spoke some French, but as you might imagine, PRAYING in a foreign language is tough. Being more an introvert, I was already a bit self-conscious about praying out loud. When I pray in public, I tend to think more about what the people are hearing than what God is hearing. That's why I prefer silent prayer to public prayer. Silent prayer is much more meaningful and meditative to me than corporate prayer. So imagine how I felt that first time the pastor asked me to close in prayer! Caught off guard, I launched into a very clumsy prayer. The difficult thing about praying in French is the subjunctive verb case, a case that is not used much. In my prayer, I would start one sentence and not know how to finish it in the subjunctive case, so I would re-start the phrase another way, only to realize that I still couldn't properly finish. My prayer had become a grammatical disaster. I finally finished with a safe phrase, "Merci, Seigneur, pour toutes ses choses au Nom de Jesus, Amen." "Hey, Freddie, remember to pray without ... stuttering." Driving down Hauptstrasse of Kandern, as I past the Turkish Doner-Kabab restaurant, where we are faithful customers, I see a person walking on the sidewalk who immediately makes me think of a dear friend in the states. "Hey, Freddie, remember to pray without ceasing." I pause a moment to pray for my dear friend, with my eyes open, of course. I woke up last night for a brief moment. I must of had a dream about Bob, another friend, because I was thinking about him. "Hey, Freddie, remember to pray without ceasing." "Lord, help Bob right (yawn) now. Amen.” Hey, Kandee, look at that license number, RDH 1511, that's Remy's initials! God wants us to pray for him at this moment. I'm shopping now. Hmmm? I wonder what it's like for the missionaries we support in Chad to shop? “Lord, help our dear friends as they serve the Lord in Chad.” Pray without ceasing. That's a lot of praying, but God did ask us to pray that much, didn't He? Harris Home Highlights Kandern, Germany — Kandee is enjoying another year of teaching “Independent Living” at BFA, excited because BFA has renovated and she has a brand new class room, much more adapted to her needs. She is responsible this year for the fancy meal of the BFA “Candlelight Dinner,” a very big evangelistic event where literally hundreds of Germans attend. Delice, now with her BA in Psychology, is working at Mission Training International in Colorado Springs. She is looking to working next year in Europe. Remy worked at a Christian camp this summer. This Fall he is working at an Assisted Living Center. He is preparing to serve the Lord full-time in a ministry of compassion to street people. (More details to come.) Merritt is a Junior at BFA, captain of the JV volleyball team, very involved in music, in a rock band and a worship band. God has so blessed him. Alexandra is engaged to be married to Preston Wallace, a Moody Bible school student, whom she met at the Spanish Bible Institute. We are so happy for both of them. The wedding is planned for this Spring. We have a BFA senior living with us again this year: Jason Howell. His parents work in France with the same French family ministry that we work with. Romania, as you may know, was ravaged by communism and the destructive tyranny of Nicolae Ceausescu. The country that was once considered the "bread basket" of Europe became devastated and destitute. Today, almost 17 years after the revolution, Romanians are still suffering the consequences of nearly forty years of cruelty and corruption. I have been in Romania about 6 times in the last 3 years and my heart really hurts for the Romanian people. Romania is still a very impoverished country, struggling to survive. The Eastern Orthodox Church, the state church, wields its power in almost as oppressive way as the Communist party. Evangelical Christians are present, but not growing. The average age in many evangelical churches is in the 70s.
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