KECY 2010 - Training Weekend

This summer, our English Evangelistic Camp Outreach, KECY, theme is Redeem. And we are gearing up for another crazy, wild, fun-filled and life-changing experience for our Slovak and North American youth groups, interns, team, and students.

Last weekend, we have hosted our training weekend where we brought all eight youth groups to Zilina to prepared and trained them for this summer’s experience. Our desire during the week was to focus less on the camp logistics and more on follow up, especially one on one discipleship. We see the camp as a tool to build relationship, trust and an opportunity to share the gospel. And after camp, a time to strengthen those relationships, build community and leading the students into a growing relationship with Jesus.

Please pray for our 8 youth groups to grasp what God wants them to learn and use to help build His Kingdom.

Throught the weekend my main task was to lead us all in to the presence of God through worship.

Youth leader’s conference – filled to capacity!

“I have prayed for two years”, one young woman said with tears, “that God would teach me what to do with the girls I am leading. And this conference has been the answer to that prayer. Now I know the specifics about how to disciple”!

Over 600 youth leaders from all over Slovakia gathered together for a four day conference of inspiration, help and training. As it seems to be every year, the auditorium was packed and overflowing with excited participants eager to learn.

To “pass the baton forward” was the challenge. Like relay runners, it’s our calling to personally hand off the life we have in Christ to another person through personal evangelism and discipleship. Everyone received their own baton and the spiritual tools to put the “hand off” into motion.

In one session, each participant was given a few minutes to write down names of specific people to whom their baton could be passed. In those moments, God seems to say to me that these moments of specific application were changing the spiritual landscape of Slovakia! Potentially thousands of young people will be raised up to run the race.

God is at work in this generation in Slovakia. Run!

9 Years of our marriage.

Today is 9 years since we said YES to each other speaking words of promisses to each other love and faithfulness.
God is good to us. He has thought us one major truth about us. That there is beauty and danger in our differences. Beauty because we allways bring two perspectives to one result. Danger when we are not walking closely with God we hurt each other by being to much in the center of attention.

I praise God for beautiful woman full of wisdom. I have privilage and honour to be her husband. I praise God for 3 amazing children to us.

Tomorrow we will meet with Dave Patty (Josiah Venture director) to pray and seek God to help us walk more in His strength. We will seek to know if there are is anything that has chance to distort Gods given autority and His image in us. We desire to walk in complete freedom experiencing Fullness of His joy and presence in our lives.

ECAV worship

Lutheran church in our city organized a weekend of purpose and vision for their ministry. I had got an invitation to come and speak about worship. We looked at some theory but most of it was very practical as how to prepare the next meeting with worship incorporated. We saw that they needed to work on the ways how to involve their young people. This was a great honour for me to serve at their planning meeting.

Visiting Rumbolds

I took 3 days vacation and our whole family went to the far east of our country 4 and half hours away. Bardejov is the city where our new missionary family Ed and Wendy Rumbolds moved their whole family from US to serve in local a Lutheran church in Slovakia. It was great time we had spend with them. Our kids played with their 5 children. We cooked and ate together. We learned Slovak language together. We jumped on the trampoline. It was fun. We love spending time with them. And they are an example of courage and faith for us. I have learned how much they live the principal of the old testament where Jews has been encouraged numerous times to teach their children the principals of Gods word all the time and all the places. It is just when there is little disobedience or attitude Ed or Wendy would immediately identify and put it in to the light of Gods word. Yes that was very inspiring. At one moment I have had wooden spoon in my hand as a tool of helping with the obedience and I had realized that before I would use it I would point to the truth of the Word of God first.

Our Church

A year ago I asked the leadership to free me up from the eldership of our church and it has been a good decision as I see it so far. Mainly that Zuzka and I get to be more involved even together. I am more free to be involved in other church activities like Sunday school which I really love to teach kids but also to teach bible study at our small group. I have also had few attempts to write new songs but I have had only a few musical ideas but no a song yet.

Johanka`s Birthday

We celebrated Johankas 5^th birthday on February 15th. She is growing. She made the list of people that she wanted to invite. We had to erase some of the names because it would be a very big party. We rented Café and decorated it and prepared a lots of games. It just happened that I had all mine and Zuzkas siblings were able to join us. It was great reunion and great party time when we could just celebrate the gift of life and enjoy each other.