Friday, July 25, 2008

SO excited!


We just finished up camp with Bratislava a few days ago, and it was so great. I don't even know how to communicate the excitement that I have for what God has in store for this Fall, but if I could put it in a picture it might look like this. Really, I feel ridiculously blessed by what God is doing in this city, and I am completely humbled at the thought that He wants me to be small part of it.

Friday, July 11, 2008

Game time!

This was the first time Roznava did Kecy camp, so our intern team took more of a behind the scenes role to make sure that logistically things went well at camp. This meant none of us were actually part of English classes or activity groups, and instead we helped prepare and run all the initiatives and games/activities. It was a bummer that we weren't available to be as relational with the students as usual, but I really loved walking alongside this Roznava team and getting to spend more time with them.

And, let's just be honest, I also loved sitting back and being entertained by everyone else participating in these hilarious games that we set up. Here are some pics from this time at camp:









However, we did not get by without being pulled into one of the activities, which was so cleverly called "push the trabant." It involved each activity team pushing our camp leader's trabant (which is small European car) as far as they could on a grassy hill in 1 minute. After each team went, we got heckled into doing it also. I wasn't laughing as hard after we did it...

Here we are in the process of pushing the crap out of that trabant. Right as we started the song "American Woman" by Lenny Kravitz came on... it was perfect.


Post push we all immediately passed out. It was a lot harder than we expected!

Roznava Camp


Camp with Roznava was so great. However, we dealt with a lot of spiritual warfare leading up to the camp. Rumors spread that the Roznava camp was a cult, so many students dropped out of camp from fear, but in the end we had a group of 12, and we knew they were exactly who the Lord wanted there. About half way through the camp the students that did come began to realize that we weren't trying to manipulate them into anything, but that all we wanted to do was show them love and to communicate what we believe to be true about Jesus Christ. From that point on the walls fell down and we became one group, not two. And by the time camp was over, no one wanted to leave, and students were already trying to reserve their spots for next year! Quite the transformation from day one.