End of a Great Year

As I think about this last year and look towards the next year I am reminded of God's Faithfulness in my life, sometimes even despite my lack of faithfulness! This Christmas weekend I spent with family and friends and celebrated the joyous celebration of our Saviors birth! I spent time with my mother's side of the family on Christmas eve and day, and went to Illinois to visit my Dad's family after Christmas. we were blessed to meet our new baby cousin, Leah. She is such a beautiful little girl and was a reminder to me of God's love. Seeing my cousin and her husband with their new baby reminded me that we are God's Children and that he cares for us far more than my cousins or any one cares for their own children! If God cares so much why do we so often not trust his guidance and direction? Why do we doubt his love for us? I am reminded in this new year that God has my best interest in mind. He cares and is the one who provides purpose and meaning in life! Please continue to pray for me as I make the decision about my future. I also ask that you continue to pray for the young people in Slovakia who still do not know the Lord our Father and his love for each and every one of them!

First Week Home

Well I have been home for a week now. It is is weird for me to be home it almost feels like I am on Vacation. I hope that many of you have received my letter in the mail this week. If you have not it should arrive soon. This week I have been meeting with people that I have not seen in a while and trying to get adjusted to being back home. I was able to meet with my friend Andy who was in Slovakia for the whole summer. This was a nice time to catch up and finally hear a little about his experience the last couple of months. I was also able to connect with one of my Social Work Professors from Taylor and two classmates. On Saturday night I went to Dave and Jayne Walter's Christmas party that they do for their small group that my parents are in. This was a joyous time of fellowship and was very good for me. As I think about the next couple weeks and the birth of our Savior on Christmas. I am reminded of how gracious our Lord is! He has blessed us in so many ways besides just Jesus, though this is the greatest gift. I am reminded to be thankful for everything, for it is all from God! I wish you a wonderful Christmas and a time of rememberance with family and loved ones. Please continue to pray for those I have mentioned in Slovakia in other posts and also for me that I will make a decision about my future that is pleasing to our Lord.

Coming Home

Well Everyone I will be home on Friday, tomorrow. I should be able to function by Monday or so. If anyone is interested in meeting write me at Howiehilljack@gmail.com. I do not have a phone in America yet. Thank you everyone for your support

Roznava Good Bye

Now I am in Rožňava and spending my last time in the town where I did the most ministry. It is a bittersweet good bye but I have really enjoyed my time spent with them. We had a little party on Monday night, which was a good time to connect one last time with everyone. Finally today I was taken to the bus station by Rudo and his family and I am on my way home.

Presov Good Bye

The second city I said my goodbyes to was Prešov, the city in which I lived. On friday I spent some time with some of the students from camp. It was a good time to say goodbye and to continue to share God’s love with them. On Saturday I went with my neighbors Milan and Lydka to one other city to the Christmas Market to spend the day. as usual I really adored the time that I spent with them, they are like family to me. In the evening I spent time with the youth group and afterwards I went with Maťo one of the boys I had been discipling. We walked for awhile and talked about life and his plans for the next couple months. In the morning I went to Milan and Lydka’s house to celebrate Mikulaš day. This is the day when Santa Claus comes and fills their boots (stockings). On Christmas Baby Jesus brings them presents. This was a very fun experience for me to spend another Slovak Holiday here and experience Slovak cultural holidays. In the afternoon I spent time and Peter’s house, my leader. It was a great time to reflect on the fall and dream about the future.

Levice Good Bye

Well I began my goodbye tour this week. I started in Levice the the town where I did my second camp. It was a really great time of fellowship and a good byes. They surprised me with a going away party. It was so perfect, I did not expect it at all. I really felt loved there and a part of their community. I am so thankful for the grace God gave me in allowing me to be a part of this community and to work with the young guy leaders in Levice and encourage them in their ministries. I was able to spend time with one of the students that I have been meeting with, Mišo I am really praying that this young guy will come to know the Lord. As of right now he is a confused young man who does not know really what he believes. Please continue to pray with for this young man, that he will experience God’s love through the group and come to know Him personally.

Thanksgiving

Well I had a good Thanksgiving away from home. Every year the American Missionaries in Eastern Europe with Josiah Venture get together in the Czech Republic to celebrate Thanksgiving together. It was really a great time. I got to spend time getting to know the other missionaries better and of course have some good American food! After Thanskgiving I still had the weekend off so I decided to go with some guys from Slovakia and one guy from Czech to Berlin. It was a good trip and quite interesting to see Berlin. I was able to go to the wall, the Parliment building and the Jewish Museum. It was a good time but kind of sad also because it proceeds the last week and a half that I will be here. I am finally getting together my schedule for my good bye tour to all the towns I have been working in. Please pray that I will wrap up well here in Slovakia and travel safely home.

Last Roznava Visit

Well this weekend was my last official visit to Rožňava. It was a very good visit. On Friday I went to one of the schools to teach a couple English classes. By this I mean that I went in and talked with the students in English. This is quite fun because, while the students think they are getting out of school work the teacher knows that they are still in fact learning. On Friday night we had KECY Club. Because it was my last KECY Club Rudo asked me if I would be willing to talk. I spoke on the spiritual realm and some of the differences between what we believe as Christians and what other religions believe. We also had a video made by the American team that was here at camp this summer. The students really seemed to love and appreciate this video. On Saturday I went to one of the boys houses from camp. His name is Kris. This was a very blessed day of some really good spiritual conversation. He is another young Catholic man that is now after camp asking questions about the differences between faith and works. Please continue to keep this young team in Rožňava in your prayers! Also please pray for me as I spend the next two weeks rapping up what I have here and traveling to all the places I need to go before I leave.

Levice

Well I had quite a good weekend in Levice this week. I was able to find a good number of the files I lost on my computer using a program a friend had there. But this was not the high light :) One of the high points was the KECY club that we did. The theme was multiculturalism, so everyone dressed up in costumes as if they were from another country. It was quite funny to see people dressed up and acting like someone from a different culture. After this one of the boys from the camp was speaking with one of the leaders and decided that he wanted to start a relationship with God and to start living different. This was so amazing, it is so great to see God working in this young man's life over the last couple of months since camp. I was also able to spend a good amount of time with the guy leaders there I am really excited about some of the steps they are taking to be more intentional in their ministry. I also was able to go to three programs called stuskovas, which are basically a celebration for being in the last year of high school. The students dress up like they would for prom and invite a date. During the night the class puts on a performance about themselves and their class for their friends and family. I went with a couple of friends to see this performance. It was quite interesting. Please continue to pray for the group in Levice. Also pray for me as I am wrapping up here and getting ready to come home, that I can adjust well and that I will be protected from Satan's attempts to discourage me.

HELP!!

I have a big need. I was in the office today and went to open a document on my computer that I have been working on. When I went to open The document I found that the entire file it was in was missing. This is very bad because this file also contains ALL the work I have done since August. I have no other copies of it. Please pray that I can some how recover this file. It is almost 2 gb of documents! Also if anyone knows some way to recover files from the trash on a mac please write me at: Howiehilljack@gmail.com

Important to read!

Many of you may have received this message from me:

This December before I leave to come back to the States, we are trying to do an event we will call KECY tour. This December will be a test run but will help us with a vision of how to do it in the future. The idea of this tour is to go into all the cities we do English camp with and help their church to be known by the youth in the community. We will do this through a presentation in the school and a work project to help the community, and finally a concert and activity that all the youth from the town will be invited to. The town we have chosen to do the first KECY Tour in is Rožňava, the town where I have been traveling and serving. We are expecting the Slovak Church to pay for part of this, but we are also trying to raise some money. I need to raise about $300 for the event. I have one donor already but I need a little bit more help. If you would like to help or would like more information please email me soon at: joshua_howard_slovakia@yahoo.com! Thank you for your support!

There has been a change to this. We had a meeting last night and determined that December will be too early to do this event so it will be in January. I therefore will not be a part of the event but still have a major role in planning it. We still have financial need for this event and the following KECY tours in the other 6 towns that we are involved in. The amount we still need to raise is about $300 per city. I know some of you have expressed interest in sponsoring this. If you are still interested please email me at:

joshua_howard_slvoakia@yahoo.com

Thank you for all that you do for the Kingdom of our GOD!!

For His Renown!
Joshua Howard

Milan With Taylor

Many of you know Taylor Friesen. He is studying in Madrid, Spain right now. This last weekend I had the opportunity to meet with him in Milan, Italy (Which is between us and happened to be the cheapest place for both of us to travel to). It was a great weekend to relax and spend time with Taylor who was in my small group for quite a while. He also brought a friend with him, who is religious, but we were not sure if he understood faith. On Sunday afternoon I had the opportunity to share the gospel with him. He told us that he had not ever heard this before. It seemed to really touch him. I told him that he and Taylor should discuss it more and that if he had questions he could ask Taylor. I think that this was a real great opportunity for me to share the Gospel and disciple at the same moment. This was not all that happened! On the way to Milan a girl sat down by me in the plane. I felt that I should talk to her so I introduced myself and began to speak with her. It turned out that she was a Slovak girl from Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. We talked that whole flight and found out that we had the same flight back, so we decided to sit together. I decided that on the way back I really wanted to talk to her and tell her about Jesus. So I began to pray that God would give me an opportunity to, and that I would have the boldness to do it. Well, it just so happened that on the return flight this girl, Andrea, started to tell me about her problems with religion. I thought, wow here is the opportunity! So I began to tell her about our position and who Jesus is. Half way through she told me she didn't like this idea, she didn't want someone to die for her, it was not fair. I told her that he already did and she began to cry. She did not make a decision then but said she wanted to think about it and ask me questions later, so I gave her my contact. Hopefully I will be able to connect her to some of the Christian girls in Bratislava that I know. Please pray for these two young people, Andrea from Bratislava and Jimmy from California. Pray also that Taylor will have wisdom and strength as he lives as an example for the other students he is around at school. Also continue to pray that God will grow and use me in this last month here in Slovakia. Yes it is my last month today :(

Great Meetings!

Well I wrote in the post below that A weekend a go I had everyone I tried to meet with cancel on me. On Monday I had some great meetings with some guys. The first I met in a town on my way home from Rožňava. His name is Mišo I have written about him before. He is from Levice and is the boy who wants to be a pilot. I spoke with him about his future and uncertainty of where he should go for pilot training. I encouraged him to pray which he thought was silly because he does not believe in God. I told him this is a perfect way to find out if God exists. He said he might try it. After this I met with Filip who I have written about before and had a really good conversation about relationships. He is a really neat guy to talk to, he has a lot of wisdom for a young guy. After this my neighbor Milan came over and we were talking about music. During this time he asked me about my purity ring. It was a great opportunity to share with him about my faith and why purity is important to me. Please be in prayer for all three of these guys especially Mišo and Milan as they are not believers.

All Saints or Halloween Weekend

Well I have not written for a while because I have not had much happening. The weekend before was one of my hardest weekends here. I made a special effort to meet with some students that are only in town on the weekends; after making this effort they all canceled on me. This was very discouraging for me, but God had better plans for this last Halloween weekend. I spent the weekend in Rožňava. On the way down I stopped in another town were Maťo (the boy I was teaching guitar to) is going to school. I met with him and had a really good conversation about personal time with God and having disciplines in his life. After this I traveled on to Rožňava. While I was here I stayed with one of the guys Ivan (shown in the picture cooking). This was really a great time for me to get to know him and spend a lot of time encouraging him. During the weekend the youth group went on a mini mission trip to help repair a church in a gypsy village. This was a real bonding experience for the whole team. Saturday evening I gathered all the guys from the team that I have been encouraging and discipling and we had a small group of accountability. It was an amazing time. There were a lot of things that came out in the guys lives and I believe really allowed them to see the need to stand together against the enemy and not try to go at it alone. On Sunday I had the pleasure of having lunch with one of the elders in the church. This was a really great opportunity to share a lot about the youth in the church and to get him excited about the group. In the evening I went to the cemetery, yes the cemetery :) In Slovakia they celebrate Halloween a little different than we do. They call it All Saints Day and instead of dressing up and asking for candy they go to the graves of their family and light candles to show their respect for the saints that have died. It is a very beautiful site to behold! It was quite the experience for me! This ended my weekend in Rožňava.

An Old freind

Last night I had the opportunity to meet with an old friend here is Slovakia. One guy you might remember from my emails last year, Slavcy. This was a really good time to catch up with him but he also told me about a really hard situation in his life. We were able to talk through it and I think he gained a little perspective on it, but there is still a lot of work needed, and a lot of restoration of some relationships in his life. Please pray for him. Also pray that I will follow God's lead in this relationship with him.

Roznava

This weekend I was in Roznava. It was a good weekend I spent a lot of time with the leader of the youth there, Rudo. It was a great opportunity to encourage the team! We also had a KECY Club on Friday night. Two boys from camp that had not been coming decided to come this week. One boy Jozo has been pretty much refusing to come to the groups but finally he came and he told me that he absolutely loved it and thinks that now he will come back. I was pretty excited to hear this, it was such a blessing. Now one of the guy leaders that I have been mentoring decided that he wants to disciple this young guy to Christ. It is such a wonderful thing to see!

Tour of my flat

Here is a video of where I live.

LEVICE

This weekend I spent in Levice encouraging the team and meeting with some of the students from camp. On Thursday evening we had our club from the camp and had a good turnout. The theme was music so I dressed up like I was a famous singer. It was a lot of fun. The next day I had an English class that I taught there was a pretty good turnout to this class and I believe the students learned a lot from it. I was able to meet with each of the guy leaders and share some ideas about discipleship with them. I also spent sometime helping them think about some personal goals they could set for themselves. On Saturday evening I had the opportunity to speak to the high school youth group. I talked about Jesus‘ parable of the wicked servant and forgiveness. After this meeting I was going to go hang out with one of the boys from camp. This boy does not believe in God and is not interested in church. When I was talking to him on the phone I invited him to the youth group and to my surprise he said he would come. After wards we went bowling and he told me that he enjoyed the story I told and he would like to hear more. He was especially interested in the parables Jesus taught that were focused towards the religious leaders. He found in fascinating that Jesus also had a problem with “religion” without faith. This was a really good opportunity to share about God with him. I hope and pray that the guy leaders in the church will stay connected with him! Please be praying for the team in Levice that they will continue to be open to Gods’ leading in their town, and that they will not get discouraged. Also pray for boldness as they try to connect with students in their town.

My neighbors

Well I have not written much about them but if you recall from my first week in Presov post there are two young people a brother and sister who are my neighbors now. There names are Milan and Lydka (Lydia). I have been spending time with them every week. Sometimes I will go to their house and sometimes they will come over to mine. They are two really special people to me they are the same age as my brother and sister. Therefore, I affectionately call them my adopted brother and sister, and they say I am like their older brother. On Sunday we spent the whole day together. We began the morning with a nice American breakfast that I cooked (we have been trying each others cultural meals). Of course it is pancakes! We hiked up to this spot above town called Calvaria. This was a great opportunity to get to know them better. We had a good conversation about God, his existence, and what faith is. It was really interesting to talk about this because we all had a different perspective on the topic. As I continue living in relationship with these two I am praying that God's love will be seen in my life and that they will experience His love and acceptance as I have. Please pray that God's love will flow through my life and that each day I will grow closer to him and become more like Christ in the way I live and act toward others!

Retreat for the Soul

This last weekend I spent some time in the Tatry's which is the tallest mountain range in Slovakia. I went there to take some time to pray and read God's word and search out God's will for the future. It was a very blessed time for me to have this focus. I would like to ask you to continue praying for wisdom for my future as I am trying to decide whether God wants me to move to Slovakia on a more permanent basis. Also continue to pray for the students I am interacting with!

Great weekend of Discipleship moments

Wow this weekend has been amazing I was working in the town of Roznava where I did my last camp. I spent time with each of the guys on the team and talked to them about setting goals for the fall for their ministry and personal spiritual growth. There were some really amazing things that happened during these meetings. I am excited to see these young men grow during this year! Please pray that God will give them focus and clarity on setting goals, and that they will follow through with these goals. When I returned home to Presov on Sunday one of the boys I am mentoring here came over to my apartment for dinner and then I went with him to a worship service at his church. When we were eating dinner we began to speak about relationships. He informed me that him and this girl he likes talked about dating and decided they were not going to date right now because the only difference they saw in dating and being friends is a physical. difference He said that neither of them wanted to risk going to far so they would stay away from the physical and just focus on their friendship. This was so amazing to hear! Please pray for this boy Filip, that he will continue to make wise decisions and that he will be bold in sharing his faith at school! Personally I am doing well right now but last week I had a breakdown. the process of changing into the fall routine and the language barrier got to me along with Satan's discouraging words and I was feeling quite depressed, but through prayer and wise council I was able to see through these lies. Pray that God will make me strong daily and that I will constantly be reminded of who I am and Who's I am!

An amazing conference

This last week I went with 16 other Slovak Youth leaders to the Josiah Venture Conference in Czech. This was an amazing week of encouragement and extremely challenging talks. The topic for the week was passing on the baton. It was about discipleship. There were so many amazing stories from people in other countries and so many good teachings from the word. It was a great encouragement to be able to talk with people from all of the 11 countries Josiah Venture is in. It was so encouraging to hear about how God is working in their countries. It was also a good time to hear about the struggles in others countries, to see how similar they are, and to be able to encourage each other and pray for each other. I met a couple of really great people there from the countries of Poland, Ukraine, Latvia, and Romania. It was so exciting. After the conference I traveled with Mike, one of the missionaries over here, to Prague, to visit a couple of the students from my first camp that are studying in the University there. This was a great time. I had a really good conversation with one boy about faith and about how he could be an example to the others on his campus. It was really exciting to see this young guy so interested in living how God wants him too! It was a great opportunity for me to put into practice what I had just learned at the conference. The First picture is my group from conference. The second is from Prague the guy next to me is the one I was talking about.

Encouraging the guys and Train evangelism in Slovak!

Well I know that I just posted about my experience so far in Presov, but I have something new to write already. I traveled this weekend to the town of Levice where I did my second camp. I was there for the purpose of encouraging and equipping the guys on the team there to connect with the younger guys from camp. It was a really rewarding time for me! I was able to help the guys on the team connect some things in their minds about how to connect with the male students from camp and to be involved in their lives. I was also able to have a conversation with two of the boys from camp about God and what He means to me. We talked about how the church has screwed their thinking of God and how God was different, that he loves them for who they are. In the end I think they understand God a little better than they did before. On Sunday I was able to connect two of the older guys on the team with them. Please be praying for the guy leaders in this group. They are very afraid to step out and take the initiative with younger guys, Pray that they will have courage and strength! The final thing I would like to share was the amazing opportunity God gave me to connect with one girl I met on a train. I was sitting in the train compartment on my trip back from Levice and a girl came in and sat down. She spoke to me which I thought was interesting. Generally I do not want to talk to people on the train because my Slovak is not very good, but I thought to my self maybe I should try. So I proceeded to speak to her in my broken Slovak. Lo and behold the conversation turned out to be really good. We spoke for nearly an hour and a half in Slovak. I shared what I was doing in Slovakia and that it was because I was a Christian, she informed me that she did not believe in God and told me it was because of her parents. I was able to share the gospel with her and to share how God had changed my life, IN SLOVAK!!!!!!! This was amazing to me because I know it was not me, I do not speak Slovak well enough to have a conversation like this! I know it was the power of the Holy Spirit working in me!! It was sooo powerful for me! Though she did not accept Christ or anything she told me that it had given her something to think about.

First Week in Presov

This week I began life in the town of Presov. It is interesting to be a part of normal life here, riding the bus and buying my own food at the grocery. On Monday Presov had their end of the summer party for the youth that were apart of the camp this summer. It was an interesting time, I believe the students really enjoyed. I also made one really cool connection this week. This last year I was introduced (online) to the younger brother of one of the girls who was in my English class at last summers camp in Presov. I found out that he lives in the apartment building behind mine. I was able to meet with him at a pizza place and get to know him better. I am excited that he lives so close to me and that I have the opportunity to connect with him this fall! Please pray for this connection and the connections I have with some of the other guys here in town, that God can use me to be an example for them!

The fall Begins

To begin the fall I am going to the after parties in the towns where we did camp. The after party is a party that KECY has that is an end of the summer party and also introduces the students to the clubs or youth groups that will be going on during to school year. The hope is that students will want to come and be connected during the year and have more oppertunities to hear the gospel or grow if they are already a believer. The first party I went to was in the town where I did my second camp, Levice. The party was really neat, we had a good turn out and a lot of kids that are interested in continuing to come during the year. I had some good converstions with a couple students about God and what they were thinking. I believe there are a couple of students who are coming close to understanding of God. The second after party that I went to was the one for my last camp, Roznava. As you have probably read this camp was full of students who did not believe in God and had really not been exposed to any real Christianity before. This party also went really well. The biggest thing I was encouraged with was how close I was seeing the group grow. It seems now after camp the students are really wanting to be a part of the community and to come to the youth group. There are also a few who are making some very serious steps toward Christ! Please pray for the students here that God will continue to soften their hearts through their connection with the Youth Group and also pray for the leaders, Rudo and Lenka, that they will have the wisdom in leading and the energy to keep up with everyone. Also one of the girls from this town got into a car accident with her father and her father is not doing very well from what I hear. As I move into the fall please pray that I will have God's wisdom in my ministry, that I will know where to connect and where to spend my energy!

Holiday

Well I spent some time off and went on a little trip to France. I was able to stop some other places along the way there. It was quite fun and it took no longer to get there than driving to Florida from Fort Wayne. It was quite an exciting trip. We got pulled over twice and our vehicle searched for drugs. Apparently we looked like drug smugglers :) I am back in Slovakia now and excited to be here. I am looking forward to starting ministry again! Next week all of the camps from the summer are having their end of the summer parties. I am excited to go see the teams and all the students again! After this I will move into my Apartment for the fall and begin life in Slovakia with out camps. Please pray for me as I make the adjustment to living by myself as an American in Eastern Slovakia and continue to learn the language and work with the youth!

A Blessing

Well I just finished my last camp and boy was it an interesting camp. It was a lot different than any one I have ever experienced. This area of the country is very hard to work in. It is very closed to God. But the camp was still amazing. Last year there was twelve students signed up for camp and 6 of them dropped out because of a rumor of the church being a cult because it is a small denomination. This was a real discouragement for the team last year. This year we had 36 students!! It was such a huge difference. The students were fun but they were also pretty hard to connect with. This part of the country was especially influenced by Communism back in the day. Today it is a very atheistic part of Slovakia. We found as we went through the week that the students did not only think there is not a God, but they didn't really even care to talk about it. Most atheists will want to argue about why there is not a God. These students would just say to us, “Well that was a interesting story but God does not exist, lets talk about something else.” We soon realized that we would not connect with them through telling about God but would only connect by our love for each other and for them. During the week the students made comments about how they could see we were different and they wondered why we were. By the end of the week there were a number of students at least interest in considering that there might be a God. There were some that decided they would like to spend more time with the Youth Group. Ten students decided that they are going to a Christian Music festival this weekend called campfest, which is put on by Youth For Christ here in Slovakia. Both of these things were very encouraging despite the fact that none of them accept Jesus into their life. As for me this camp was an interesting experience. I spent a lot of the camp doing a lot more program things, allowing the Slovaks to spend more time with the students. I also spent time working with the leader Rudo, encouraging him and showing him how to lead better. He is someone I will be working with in the fall, I am very excited about this. Despite the fact that I was doing all this program stuff I still seemed to be having an impact on students. One of the coolest things for me was something one girl said to me at the end of the camp. She said, “You are the best American I know, No one has ever carried my bag for me and that was the first thing you did when I got to camp, I will always remember that.” This was so interesting to me. When the students arrived I carried as many bags in as I could, because it was what I should do. I never thought that it would have such an impact on someone. I was also able to connect with one boy named Erik. he was an interesting kid. He is a Christian, but does not really seem to know how to really show it to his friends, to be an example. I talked with him about how his friends were atheists and how allowing Christ’s love to flow through him to others could be such a good example for his friends. I really enjoyed this camp! I appreciate all of your prayers for me and my team. I also ask that you pray for the other interns as they prepare to go back to America, that they will adjust well and find a place to connect again. Also I ask that you pray for me as I prepare for the fall and all that it brings, that I will continue to trust in God through it all. Thanks!

Kecy - Levice

Well what can I say? It was another great camp! God was really at work in the hearts of the students. We only had 6 boys at the camp but it was still pretty good. There were enough girl leaders to connect with the girls and for the 6 guys there was about 14 guy leaders. It was really neat to be able to connect with the guys and to talk with them about God and life. They all seemed pretty interested in God, Let's pray that they will finally decide to follow Jesus! We did have two or three girls come to know Jesus as their Lord and Savour through this experience. Please pray for the team in Levice as they will continue connecting with the students and building relationships. Pray that they will have boldness in sharing their faith and in pursueing the students. God is really in the ministry here it is so neat to see young people here taking their faith seriously and seeking others. I really hope and pray that there will be a revival in the youth here in Slovakia. There are so many students searching for meaning and purpose in life. It is so cool to have the oppertunity to be able to share it with them, and to encourage the Slovak believers in relationships! Also for those who were praying for my friend and his Father, Thank you! His Father is doing a lot better, they think he will be fine. I think that this young Slovak guy just caught a glimpse of who God is through this experience. Please pray for me as I go into this next camp that i will have the energy I need to connect with students and to do everything I need to. Also pray for the team as it is only their second year doing camp and they are a young team. Pray that they will not get discouraged with things mess up and that they will be bold in all they do and lean on God for guidance! Thank you everyone! Enjoy the pictures!

Castle visit

We went to this castle: