Last days

We have had a great last couple of days. Yesterday we went to Vienna for the day and were able to tour the Schonbrunn palace. It was really interesting and BIG! Afterwards we split up to walk around, shop, and some of us got kaiser kreiners. These are huge sausages with cheese inside of a huge piece of bread and they are GOOD.

Today we went to the local baptist church, had lunch together, and returned to the DEPO for a cookout dinner and to meet with the group in Ruzinov that is hopefully the catalyst for a church plant there. It was really encouraging to meet with these fellow. Believers.

Tomorrow, we will be touring Bratislava. We are sad it will be our last day but are excited to see our family back home, too:). Thanks for following along on our journey and most of all, thanks for your support and your prayers--they are invaluable to us!

(unfortunately, I have no pictures to share because I'm blogging on my phone. Thanks for understanding;)

last day at the DEPO

Today was our last day working at the DEPO.  Everything went really well and we were all pretty sad to leave once it was over.  This morning we had our regular morning assembly and after that we had some fun with water balloons.  It definitely felt good to get wet amidst the heat and the kids all loved it. This afternoon, Darius (the leader @ DEPO) pulled out an inflatable basketball goal and a trampoline, which were all very fun for the kids (+the americans;).  We had a cookout this evening after the kids left and closed out our week of working at the DEPO.  The week has been successful and we pray that some of the connections we made with the kids this week will help connect our missionaries to more people, and ultimately be able to build long term relationships with them to share the Gospel.

Tomorrow we are headed to tour Vienna, and some of our new Slovak friends are coming along, so we are all looking forward to that.  Sunday we'll be going to the church connected with the DEPO, touring downtown Bratislava, and meeting with Jason and Charity's community group.

I'll update again soon, probably Sunday.  Thanks for your prayers!

snacks we made for the kids today

bowl full of water

water balloon fun

Jordan showcasing her awesome catching skills

sweet girls

Kayla with Birte + Mirka

trampoline fun

Jacob

Donnie, the camera man

quick update

Once again, today was very similar to our other days at the DEPO.  After our morning assembly and english lessons, some of the girls made collages and the boys played several rounds of capture the flag. This afternoon, some of the guys were able to help take down the barbed-wire from around the DEPO to make it look more inviting and the rest of us hung out with the kids who came and learned to do the wobble (shout-out to you if you know what the wobble is).  After some kick-ball at the park this afternoon, we grabbed some Chinese take-out and now we are all about to crash.  Tomorrow is our last day of camp and we have some pretty fun activities planned, so we should have some fun pictures from that.

Check out our day:

Pastor John likes to make cubes out of matches and taught several of us how to do it

This is the Bible story time in the morning

During the morning assembly

Playing shuffle-your-buns

the de-lish Chinese food we had for dinner tonight


catch y'all tomorrow!

camp @ D.E.P.O....round two

Howdy y'all...all the way from Slovakia.  Today was another day of camp at the D.E.P.0. and we followed the same basic schedule that we did yesterday.  This afternoon we played baseball with the kids and some of our team went prayer walking around the city.  Overall, it has been a great day and I think everyone is almost caught up on sleep.  Please continue to pray for the team and the Slovaks.

Enjoy a few pictures from our day: