Day 2

Greetings all!

Well, we really have a dream team of students… through all our adventures so far they have remained such an amazingly joyful group, and as previously mentioned, even in our delays we had opportunity to show Jesus through our attitudes, and had several other passengers comment to that effect.  Each parent reading this should be so proud of your son/daughter… what great kids!  Their love for God is evident in all they do and say, and the saying ‘blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be broken’ has really held true!!

Sunday was a wonderful day, starting with a prayer time for our team together with Volodya and his wife Oxana.  It was Easter Sunday, and as our schedule didn’t permit us to attend a morning church service, we gathered together to share in communion.  We left in the afternoon to Mucachevo Ukrainian church where we presented Storyteller to a very enthusiastic group of both Christians and non-Christians.  It was an outreach event for Easter.  From there we went to the Mucachevo gypsey church, where I was delighted to see Pastor Micha and his wife Vera, along with our dear friends Ruslan and Carlos.  The worship was truly awesome.  We had several translations going on as there were people there from Holland, as well as Hungarian speaking and Russian speaking.   We presented Storyteller on a very small stage, but it went very well and the basketball team did some testimonies following.  We all commented on how true and wholehearted their worship was, in this tiny little place that was so packed that when you stood up in the front row you were shoulder to shoulder with the speaker!!!

Today the dance team headed out to teach a workshop to local teens.  The leader of this team was Christian, but she uses the team to outreach, so most of the girls were non-Christian.  We taught them ‘Shackles’ and had opportunity to share with them.  Meanwhile the basketball team headed downtown to hand out flyers to local youth for our outreach concert on Wednesday.  They just returned, so I’m sure Sean will share more about what else they did.

God has been so faithful, and during our morning prayer time we have had some powerful words and themes for the week.  Using our gifts, but also recognising that even in our weaknesses we can be used by the Lord.  Mainly to understand that God is working in all things that we do, even if we don’t see the whole picture.

In half an hour we are going to another Gypsey village to share and perform ‘Storyteller’.  We will write more about that tomorrow, assuming we have time

Blessings to you all