Where to begin...

We finally have internet! This is a condensed version... I'm sure your loved one will fill you in on the details later.

We spent two days in Jihlava teaching english in the public schools. We invited the students to hang out with us the first night. We prayed over the evening but we were not expecting many people. However, God blew our minds. About 35 students that showed up for singing songs, playing games, talking to the Americans (which we have found out is a BIG deal, we sorta feel like celebrities), and hearing Jacob talk about how God is important to him. The main reason we are in Czech is to promote the summer english camps. We are the first round of advertising for some places, and our goal is to be energy filled in the classroom while being informative at the same time. If we accomplish both these things, the students hopefully will come to english camps. While there they will hear the full gospel presentation and even learn some English in the process!

We then traveled to Trebic where we stayed with host families! The Czech people are VERY hospitable and will bend over backwards for anything we say. We were amazed and humbled by their kindness. Today went to two schools and taught english for a total of nine hours today. Shortly after finishing that we led an English Club where we sang and played games for another hour and a half. After that, we jumped into the car and drove to our next city Kjov, we are staying the night at a church here. We just finished eating dinner with some of the leaders from the youth group and church.

Tomorrow morning we will be out on the streets advertising for Josiah Venture english camps. The students in Kjov are on spring break, so there should be plenty of them available for conversation. In the afternoon we will be leaving for Zlin. Here we will be having a weekend outreach retreat that we are leading with a local youth group. Please keep this in your prayers.

We also ask that you pray for energy for our team. This has been a fairly tight schedule running from place to place and it wears on us. Also teaching english is tiring, we not only have to talk at one third our normal rate, but we also have to constantly come up with three or four different ways to say things. It is mentally exhausting. However we love seeing the enthusiasm the students have to be around us and to go to the English Camps. We have been making relationships left and right that will hopefully lead to fruitful connections in the future, and possibly have an eternal impact.

Until we have internet again,
By God's grace, we will survive :)

In Christ,

The Czech Team

Quote of the day: "Well here we are again in another city I can't pronounce" -Bob MacRae