This is our very first Christmas here in Slovakia – and there is so much to learn! Some aspects of the holiday are very familiar – people getting together for example (but with a much stronger emphasis on family). Big meals will be had and gifts opened on December 24th. Shoes, like stockings, have already… Read More Veselé Vianoce (Merry Christmas) a la Slovak
We just returned from assisting at NLI’s 3rd ORGANIX conference at a monestary (pictured above) in El Espinar, Spain. This conference saw over 100 leaders come together from across Spain for a time of teaching and connection. We taught a seminar twice on the role creativity and problem solving plays in strong leadership. Also, we… Read More Leadership Conference : Spain
Meet Čert (Chert). Our language tutor taught us about a rather interesting tradition: Today, being his Name Day, many European countries celebrate Sväty Mikuláš aka Saint Nicholas, the patron saint of children. Traditionally, on the eve of December 5th, children would polish and set out out their shoes in anticipation of Saint Nicholas’ arrival. That… Read More Nothing says "Merry Christmas" like a Little Chocolate Devil
This past Tuesday evening I (Matthew) was helping at a discussion club our church hosts for university students. It’s called Potichu Nahlas (Quietly Outspoken). As part of an icebreaker game everyone had to make up a story about the person to their left. So my friend got quite a few laughs at my expense as… Read More Whose Laughing Now?!
This is the VBC Business Centre located within Centrum (downtown Nitra). It has a large “congress hall” that has sat empty for years now – until last week. Church family went in and washed, scrubbed and cleaned away years of dust to get it ready for Mozaika. You can read more about it at http://www.vbc.sk… Read More Our Migratory Church
Though the VBC said they would get back to us last Tuesday with an answer….they haven’t. Miro, our church planter, called them once and they affirmed that they would call us, and not the other way around. So we wait and we pray and we trust. This past Sunday we returned to the family home… Read More A Work in Progress
It’s Sunday afternoon and I am happy to say that we did not have to have church in some back alley this morning (which is good seeing as the temperature has dropped over 20 degrees in less than a week – but that’s a whole other story). The searching this past week did not offer… Read More Church a la Village
Last night we got a phone call letting us know that Amber’s grandfather, Herman, had passed away. Grandpa Herman had been ill for some time now and it was his desire to be making eye contact with Jesus, rather than nurses. It is almost one year to the day since Amber’s Nana passed away. We… Read More See You Later
Life sometimes offers up moments that take you entirely by surprise and give you little, if any, chance to process before forcing you to move on. Yesterday was one such moment. Mozaika, the church-plant here in Nitra, meets in a student hotel (like a dorm) for our Sunday program. The managers of the facility have… Read More No Room in the…Dorm?
After a few false starts to our trip and some last minute changes, we ended up making the 5 hour drive (rather than the 9 hour train ride) to Ženavlje, Slovenia. We were running late and had no idea what we were looking for as we followed directions from a text message. As we drove… Read More IČKA
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