PRIDE

After one week off, we flew into our third and final camp by welcoming our American team at the airport... This was a special welcome for me as my dad was on that team! It felt SO good to hug my dad after 24 weeks! 6 months really didn't feel like a long time until I saw him and it hit me how long I had been away from home. And it again made me thankful for the peace and sense of "home" that God has given me here in Slovakia.  Welcoming my dad in the Vienna Airport This camp was my 3rd camp with this church in Bratislava. They have been doing camps for a long, long time and definitely know what they are doing! So it was pretty much as opposite from our Hungary camp as you could imagine ha. It was organized, people knew their jobs, people DID their jobs, lots of kids were signed up... The camp was really off to a strong start with a strong team. And it proved strong throughout the whole week. The Slovak team and the American team worked so well together to humb...

Oh boy. It just keeps getting harder and harder to summarize what God is doing here through Fusion in Slovakia.  We had a total of 3 camps this summer, two of which were based in Slovakia and one based in Hungary. Our first camp was summarized in my last post and in that same post I had asked for prayers for our second camp in Hungary. Hungary had a lot of obstacles... but it was just as successful as the other two this summer! Our team faced challenges in every area, around every corner, from the beginning to the end of every day at this camp, but we carried on.  God had put this camp on my heart a few months ago with these goals in mind: 1. To build up the local leaders in Fusion Senec by taking them on a "mission trip" to serve but also to have intentional time to encourage and develop their leadership skills.  2. To build these leaders up so that they could be a part of a new youth group in Senec.  3. To share the idea of Fusion in Hungary, and have ...