This month, we have continued to have our youth groups, leaders meetings, and small groups online. It is definitely getting tiring, but we are trying our best to encourage our youth and challenge them to use this season as a chance to grow their personal faith and know their Father in Heaven more intimately. In […]
Alice has been praying for quite some time for girls to disciple that are new in their faith. She has couple of girls she disciples that have been believers for a while and she loves spending time with them, but she felt the tug to disciple new believers. One day there was a girl who […]
Josh and his group of Pathfinders are conintuing to grow closer despite all the restrictions due to Covid. Although the group meetings are online, there is still some freedom to be out in nature. Last weekend the boys bundled up and went out in the below freezing weather to spend some time as men in […]
The corona situation in Slovakia has been the same all month. No meetings in person, no visiting friends, and family, people only working from home and the only way to go out is to go buy groceries or visit a doctor. We have had only a few days with sunshine and the weather outside is […]
As we mentioned in our previous posts, we have decided to take the time to invest in leaders in our youth group. Every month we take 2 weeks to invest in our leaders while the remaining two we dedicate to having actual youth group meetings. This month we started studying the foundations of our faith […]
Christmas 2020 will always be remembered as a special one. Alica spent the last 6 Christmases in America so this was her first one in Slovakia in a while. Josh spent the last couple of Christmases with different JV families all over Central and Eastern Europe. The Covid restrictions got tighter right before Christmas and […]
This month has been interesting for our youth group as it marks the first time in months that we could meet in person. This happened for one week and then the number of Covid cases rose again and the government locked down again. This one time meeting in person seemed to be so life giving […]
Have you ever heard this phrase? Man up! Stop being a wimp, just be the tough guy. Be a man like Bond, Rambo, Jason Bourne, or Clint Eastwood. It seems, as men we hear this phrase a lot in our lives. When we are told this, we have two general reactions. I can’t do this, […]
This month we have continued our online youth meetings. We are ready to be back in person again, but are thankful that we can at least meet this way! With our leaders group we have been studying about our identity in Genesis and being made in the image of God. In our normal youth meetings […]
Alice’s mother (Mamka) returned this week after a year living in Australia helping Alice’s sister. It was a fun reunion to see her after a year and the house has been full of cheer and laughter. We were able to decorate for Christmas together and have been helping her find somewhere to live and work […]