Finishing Well
Tonight I write to you from the home of Marcel and Silvie Boszczyk. They are two of the wonderful members of the Church in Český Těšín. Marcel, who I met […]
Why Jesus?
Today’s evening program culminated with an interactive experience where students were encouraged to process the realities about Jesus that they have heard so far this week. Everything up to tonight begged a single question: “why Jesus?
Different or not?
It is 11:00pm as I am writing this blog. I am seated on a coach in the clubhouse room (“klubovna”) on the second floor of the hotel. Outside the closed door, I hear loud laughter and talking as students interact with each other during a time of unscheduled activity…
Highs and lows
We have settled into a rhythm at camp with our days starting at 7:30 with devotion time. We are busy most of the day with student activities until 11:30pm, then […]
Following Jesus…
What an amazing day at camp. Today we started our first day of English Lessons as well as had an afternoon water day. After dinner Pastor Andrew gave his gospel presentation about “I am the light of the world”…
Perspectives…
In one of my previous international travels I saw several pieces of art that changed their appearance based on the position that you viewed them from. For instance, what appeared to be a statue of a car from one direction, looked like a horse and buggy from another…
Weather…
Humidity hangs in the air of my hotel room as a palpable reminder of the steady afternoon rain that we received today. Although the weather cleared several hours ago, the clammy feel of fabrics, paper, even the keyboard of my laptop computer speak to the earlier downpours and the lingering summer heat…
Training
Luke 10 is an amazing passage about Jesus sending out 72 messengers to proclaim good news about the kingdom of God. These were people who had followed Him, and presumably heard his message, but there is no indication that they had advanced training in evangelism. They were regular people commissioned by Jesus to do the extraordinary…
Sweet Dreams
Spending over 20 hours in transit and traversing 9 time zones plays tricks on the mind and I have seen most of the team struggling to make sense of the huge difference between what our body clocks say we should be doing though all our senses tell us otherwise.
First Steps…
“He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.” Mark 16:15
Outside the lonesome call of a morning dove and the occasional crow of a rooster signal that the day has already begun. Soon the house will be full of commotion as we hastily stuff toiletries in bags and travel to meet the rest of the mission team at church. Today will be filled with moments of intense activity: airport check in, security, plane transfers. It will and also be filled with long periods of inactivity…