Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

Unfortunately it has been a long, long time since my last post, but better late than never I suppose. So for those who might not know, I am in the Czech! Yay! It has been a long few days. It all started on May 26th, at 6:00 in the evening my plane departed to Denmark, Germany. I proceeded to fly to Vienna, Austria in the company of two of my teammates who I would be working with this summer. We arrived in Austria a couple hours later after around a total of 13 hours of traveling! We all had been up for over 24 hours already. This summer Josiah Venture is using 16 teams to serve eastern Europe, so after everyone arrived at the airport, we divided into our teams of 4-6 and started a 3 day journey to Malenovice, Czech via the Amazing Race. We had many tasks to fulfill over the next few days and we had the opportunity while doing those tasks to travel to Vienna-Austria, Budapest-Hungary, Bratislava-Slovakia (and a few other small towns), and finally Malenovice, Czech Republic. This "game" was really another name for extremely intensive team building activities. Our team had 70 Euros per person to use for the 3 days; which included travel and food expenses. It was an adventure that I will never forget and I would love to go into detail about later. Below is a picture of our team, which from left to right is:

Dan Reese, Lisa Potter, Nik Walborn (me), and Leah Cox (aka Full Time Missionary with JV)

We are all at Josiah Venture's hotel in Malenovice receiving a week of intensive training for the 3 months ahead. I and my team are super excited for what the summer will bring, if you could please pray for us our prayer requests are:

• God to work and speak to our hearts
• God to work in the heart's of Czech students we will be working with
• To plan our budget well for the summer
• For us (as a team) to continue to be encouraging to each other

Thanks, and be checking back soon for another update!