From Czech

Greetings from the Czech Republic!

It’s hard to believe the week is already coming to a close but at the same time it feels like we’ve been here for weeks. We arrived safely in Prague Monday morning and – to our surprise – we had no dishpacks or my guitar! Regardless of the lost luggage, we headed to our hotel to rest up before heading to downtown Prague to see some of the sights and hang out. When we came back…the dishpacks were sitting in the lobby! Unfortunately, no guitar. L We and about 5 other teams from the US and Canada left Prague Tuesday morning on a 5 hour bus ride where we enjoyed more rest and getting to know a couple other people from different teams. There is a team here from Peoria AND St. Charles! This is the term of Illinois for sure. ;)

Training started Tuesday evening and even though the schedule hasn’t been totally full, we have felt weary at times. One HUGE praise is my guitar came in yesterday morning in great condition (though the case was a bit beat up). We’ve had many meetings on camp conduct and English teaching as well as prayer and worship times in the morning and evenings led by our team.

Today is our last day of training then all the other teams will leave Malenovice to their camps and we will stay here to prepare for ours. Which is awesome since we don’t have to travel anywhere we will have all of Friday to chill and prepare for the students which will be coming Saturday afternoon. Classes will start Sunday and go til Friday of next week.

PRAYER
+ This year has held the most responsibility for me in the leadership aspects with music and teaching so pray for endurance. I’m up right now with Laura Tabbut and Steve Rupsis going over our worship sets for tomorrow and writing up hand copies of our camp songs so Elle has something to read on the piano.
+ UNITY Not only for our team but also for our team alongside the Czech team here from Cseski Tesin we’ll be working with.

That’s all for now - I’ll post more this weekend with some pictures hopefully!