last day on campus...

Yesterday was our last day on campus for this school year. How sad. It was very relaxing day and encouraging. We spent some time with our students by praying and sharing and eating together. When we were together I realized that there is two more people there then last year, Monika and Ivana our new sisters in Christ. I am so happy for them and also very encouraged to see how is God using them in our ministry. Very encouraging is also that all of our students involved want to go to summer mission trip. There are few options that they can go to. Jakub is going to USA summer project, and girls are probably going to Macedonia summer project not for sure but we would love for them to go. It just really reminds me of how I was a student and how I was every summer going to some kind of project. So I thank God that they are wanting to go to projects and want to serve God in different parts of the world. It is like in Acts 1:8. How they are going into the whole world and spreading the Gospel.

more then a carpenter..

I talked to one student this week (Kristina) and it was very encouraging to spend time with her. While ago I gave her few more then carpenter books, because she asked for them. So she was telling me how is God using those books in peoples lives. She had several friend that were not believers and she was praying for them and sharing Jesus with them. But they always had questions, so she decided to give them those books. I was surprised that they read them, but they did, and God showed them who He is thru those books. So we have some new sisters and brother in Christ. Praise God for that...

Women's weekend..

This weekend we went to a beautiful place Zdiar for womens weekend. I enjoyed it a lot and I am very thankful for everything that happened there. We had two talks there about identity in Christ and second one about Waiting. My favorite part was wellness night. Student girls prepared such a good time for us and we could just relax. And also place we went to was perfect for our time together. So thank God and thank to all the girls that came there...

It is not about me...

Ive got good lesson from God this week. He reminded me that I can not do anything without Him. And also that He does not need me or anybody else to make someone believe in Him. It really is a good reminder and eyes opening truth about God. It is just His big big mercy that He is choosing to use us for His purposes. I am so thankful that in such a big time of discouragement He is encouraging me with His truth and loving hand. I like this verse John 3: 27...

discipleship...

I am learning about discipleship a lot right now. I think it is hard for me to understand what it really is. So I think the best way how to find out what it is to look at examples of it in Bible. I found some passages about it- 2Tim. 2:2, Fil. 4:9, Acts 13:44-52, Acts 14:19-28. When I looked at it closely I could see that all of those verses point to one important thing. And I thing it is pointing to Paul and how he was doing discipleship. He was not just meeting with his disciples once a week for a lecture, but he was taking them everywhere with him, and also just allowing them to live with him, so discipleship was for him a life style looks like. And I like it. I wish I can do that too...

again by bus..

This week after long time I took bus back to Kosice from campus. Usually we as team go to Presov and from Presov by car. But anyway. It was kind of a good time for me to take bus. It definitely reminded me of good old times :)). Ivana my friend of mine took bus with me, and we had such a good time. I had opportunity to talk to her and get to know her little better. I was happy that I got to spent that time with her, and we could just hang out. other than that I met some new girls this week. One of them is Alzbeta. Me and Biba went to meet with her. It was pretty hard meeting. We talked about God and Jesus and faith and such, but her responses were not very clear or she didnt look very excited to talk about such things. I asked her after one hour if she likes to talk about spiritual things, and she said NO it is too personal for me. So when she said that I was wondering in my head why didnt she stopped us on the beginning?? But I think it was a good lesson for me to be more sensitive to how students respond or not respond. Well good to learn new things every day...

sharing her life...

This week I had first meeting one on one with Ivana (one girl I started to meet with and just helping her grow in her faith). We were just talking about God and such things, and she said that she had this conversation about God with her friends. I was encouraged to hear that, because she is a christian not very long time, and I am very encouraged by her courage. Ivana said that she told her friends that faith is not about going to church, but about personal relationship with God, and little bit explained about how Jesus died on cross for our sin. But she told me that she didnt know how to continue and how to explain it well. So I told her that we are going to talk about it soon, so she can know how she can effectively share her faith. :)))

back on campus..

First week back on campus we did a hot chocolate outreach :)). It was very challenging , because it is still very cold outside. But it is amazing to see that God can be glorified also when I am cold or not ready to do ministry. Many students came to us and wanted chocolate and so we had opportunity to talk to them. I think we have some girl that we would like to meet with them again, so I pray that it would happened. Wednesday was very encouraging for me, because one of "our" students Monika came to help us, and she did very good. It was so natural for her to do ministry. Praise the Lord for Monika.

caffe "Most" week...

Caffe Most is a christian caffe place in Presov. This week I spent almost all my time there. It is a good place to meet students one on one, because it is christian place- so no alcohol, cigarettes, and weird looks from people sitting around me :). On Monday I spent some time there with my friend Ivka to talk about Holly Spirit. It was good conversation. On tuesday we had prayer there, and wednesday I met Pauli there, and we talked and played a game " Europe" with Biba and Peta. It is very interesting game, you can definitely find out how smart you are or also how not very smart you are :)). In this game you answer questions from different topics, such as culture, sport, history, geography and so on... I think I really like this game. haha. Ok have a nice weekend...

how to become a Christian...

This past week was full of meetings with girls. And honestly on the end of our campus time on wednesday, I felt like " if somebody else comes to me and asks me how they can become a Christian, I would die". I really am tired and I feel like I need lots of rest and sleep, and rest and sleep. It does not mean that i am not thankful for the privilege that I have in my job to share my faith. I am just tired. But anyway I think that most interesting meetings I had on wednesday. I met one of my friends, we know each other for several years, and she is student. But I was thinking how can I find out if she gave her life to Christ. And so this wednesday I decided that I am going to ask her question " how can someone become a Christian?" And so her answer told me what I wanted to know and we find out that she didnt give her life to Christ several years ago. And so I shared with her about Christ again and on the end I asked her if she would like to give her life to Christ and she said "I can not, I dont have faith" . I was so sad and frustrated that I can not do anything to make her believe. But what I have learned from this situation is that it is not my job to make her believe. I can share with her and answer her questions, but just God can open her heart and give her faith. So it was good lesson...

I do love my job...

Yes I really do love my job, I am so thankful that God gave me such a perfect gift to do this job. I love talking about Him, and cant imagine to not do it as everyday job, haha. This past tuesday we invited students to come and hear talk about christianity and God and Christ. We wanted to have entertaining name for the talk, so we named it "Grill a Christian". Yes it can sound different ways for different people. So yes it did. In the dorms where we have our meeting there are some ladies that work there, and give us keys every week for the room we are in. So they said that they are strong believers, and so they do not agree to have such a name for some talk. But in Slovakia if somebody says that they are strong believer it usually means that they are traditional believer, and has nothing to do with personal relationship with God. And so we really wanted to have good relationship with them, so we tried to explain it to them, but it didnt really help. So we had the talk "Grill a Christian". One girl named Monika- who just trusted Christ with our Miska, and is new new believer came to that talk, and at one point she said in front of all the people that came there, that she would like to say something. So she did, and she shared her faith with all the students there :))). We were so amazed from what God can do thru such a young christian. Our speaker was Lubo Badiar, maybe you know him. It was such a good talk, and students had such a good questions, questions that didnt want to grill Lubo but questions that were really good and deep, and I was very thankful for that :)). So after talk we were leaving the dorm and we see Monika sharing her faith with one of the ladies that were against our talk, and the lady was crying. So yes miracles do happened, and I want to be able to see them and be encouraged by them. So thankful...

last week in BA..

I spent some time in Bratislava last week. Mostly with my family and my niece. it was very good time. My niece is so cute and just very cool. see on pictures how cute she is.

Amazing day....

This is funny last week I was complaining to God, that I feel on campus like in different country, because it looks like everybody is catholic there, and I dont understand them, mostly where they are coming from. I really was very discouraged, that I dont connect with students well, and cant really understand them. I totally believed that there is nobody who is not catholic at campus in Presov. And so complaining was growing and frustration too. But today I saw that God hears me even when I am not very nice to Him. He knows what I need, and knows how much I can go thru, even when I feel like it is to much and cant go any farther, He knows, He knows, He knows. I wish I can remember that every second of my life. I wish I dont complain so much and I wish I can trust Him more. Today I went to a meeting with Biba and Peta. We met a girl named Jozka, we did survey with her on the beginning of the semester, but she was not very spiritually interested and we just had very shallow conversation with her. But Peta contacted her and Jozka said that she wants to meet with us. I was like ok I will go meet with her, but in my head I go what am I going to talk to her about, i dont want to waist my time on campus just to talk about weather or something similar- such a selfish attitude. Gabika told me before meeting, well just think about why are you meeting with Jozka. Well I want to tell her about Jesus, just dont know how to start. So we went and I had that motivation in my head. On the beginning Jozka said, I dont have much time because I am going to work out to gym. In my head I go , well maybe no sharing Gospel today, but somehow I knew that she needs to hear about Jesus. Ten minutes latter her friend called her and canceled on her about going to work out. So Jozka didnt go work out, and could stay longer with us. For long time we just talked about different stuff. And it was hard to switch the conversation and talk about Jesus. I started thinking well if this conversation is going to be like this for few more minutes I am just gonna tell her " Jozka we wanted to meet with you to tell you about Jesus", I was not sure how she would react on this, but I was ready to do it. Probably it was not the best idea, and God did helped us to switch the conversation to spiritual stuff. In conversation I asked her if she is a believer. She said loud and sure " No, I am atheist". I was so happy she said that, I know it sounds funny, but for me it was answer to my prayers to meet someone that is sure about their believes. I mean , I think that catholics many times tell me " yes I believe in God, I go to church every sunday", but they have no idea about God, they just think they do. It is so much worse to say that than just say no I dont believe. I dont know if you get it, but I can not explain it better right now. Anyway when Jozka said she is atheist, I knew that I need to tell her my testimony, because I was atheist before and knew nothing about God. But there was a problem I was afraid to start sharing. i know funny. I knew the whole time that God wants me to tell her my testimony, but I was so scared. Funny thing is that Peta and Biba felt the same way and they knew that I need to tell Jozka my testimony. So we all knew somehow, but I was still wondering why Peta or Biba dont tell her their testimonies. I know funny. Finally God kicked my butt and I told her my story. She was listening very carefully, and her face was different. I can tell that she was in shock. I think that my face looked like her when I first time heard of Jesus. She didnt say anything the whole time, but just nod her head. I told her on the end that everybody has to decide if they want to accept Jesus or not. And I finished, and she said "Ok lets go". That was not something I wanted to hear from her. I thought she would say something, but maybe this was her reaction. Once I heard that every man has some reaction on Gospel, so I take it as her reaction was this. I think that she was in shock and probably never heard something like that before. I wish that she will think about it more, but I dont know what she will do. Maybe I will never see her again, but maybe she will make decision for Jesus. I dont know, but God knows, He knows. I believe that nothing is coincidence, and I believe that God was behind this meeting with Jozka. I needed encouragement and Jozka needed to hear about Jesus, because everybody needs to hear about Jesus. I pray that she will know God personally one day. Kind of long but I wanted to write it here....

Catholic Zuzka...

It was very sad for me to see how this girl is living in so many lies. Zuzka is a girl I met on monday in Presov doing Soularium-survey. She had a lot of time so we talked a lot during survey, and she was pretty open to talk about spiritual stuff, so it was good. But more and more we talked more and more I have seen that she is believing in so many lies. I really wished that I could understand what is she talking about. She is traditional catholic, and so maybe you can see what am I coming from. We talked about 2 hours and I really felt like I am in some different culture or something like that. I realized that this religion in Slovakia is so far away from me and from what I know about God. It was very hard to talk to her, because her eyes and heart were closed and she didnt hear anything that I was trying to tell her about God. I shared gospel with her, but I clearly saw that she is not getting it at all, just not getting it. Those lies she grew up in are so strong in her life that it is very hard for me to believe that she can ever know God personally. She said a lot of things, but there is one that I can still not understand. Maybe you can help me to understand it. She said that she believes in God, but she does not believe that God created her and this world. So in my head I was thinking well then what god do you believe in??? I mean who is your god??? She believes that we are from monkeys, so I told her " I dont think that I am from monkey, because I am human, and monkey is animal, animals dont have spirit and are not created on Gods image and cant have relationship with God" so I said I am definitely not a monkey, because I have relationship with God!!! And I can not climb the trees haha :)). Just kidding. So yes I told her gospel, but didnt work for her there, but I hope and pray that one day it will work for her and God will save her. Please pray for her too...

jeeej...

I like this new things jeej new background... wwoooww.

searching week...

But for real!!! this week was for me a searching week. Searching is one of my biggest weaknesses. I really really dont like searching. This searching I had to do because it was searching for some good place for our women's weekend. It is going to happened on 24 and 25th of October, saturday and sunday. So that is why I was searching and searching. I really love women's times and I love doing stuff for women, so the whole week I had this motivation to help me keep searching. First I thought, that it will not be any problem to find a cute place for us for one night, but it is a problem. I started calling to different accommodation places and everyone told me that they dont take people just for one night. So my frustration was growing and growing as week was going. Thank God I was not by my self in that frustration, because Peta was in it with me, and was helping me to find something. I was waking up and going to sleep with searching. I was seriously asking God why is it such a problem to find something, and I started thinking that we should probably not have women's weekend. But it didn't make any sense to me that God would not want such a good thing to happened. So here we go friday came and I am very very tired. AND yes I still think searching is tiring and it is still not my favorite thing to do, but I am very happy that Gods answer to my question is yes. Yes He wants us to have women's weekend. So this week I have learned that I have to do everything I can and leave results to God. Good lesson for this week. So we have accommodation in beautiful place in Tatry mountains, jeeej for that. Please bee praying for that weekend and for good number of girls to come. Thank you. On the picture you can see where we are going.

how the team works...

Very stressful week for me, but also very blessed one for my team. In my biggest nightmare I would never expect that my week would look like the one I just had. So I have learned that I should not have expectation for every day to look like how I want it, but be ready for anything. Till wednesday it looked like normal week, but then 7.30 am on wednesday everything changed. As usual I woke up and wanted to get ready to take my doggie out. But I looked at him and he was laying on the ground and could not move at all. So I took him to vet and they could not figure out what it is. So they did what they could for him, and we went home. Next day he was still not moving, so we went back to vet. And they did more stuff with him and told us, that he probably needs special check up in Brno in Czech republic and that if dog has such problems that they dont give them big chances to survive. So I was crying for long time, because I cant imagine to put him to sleep because of that. He is only 5 years old, and so it is hard to accept that he might die.SO today in the morning we went again, and my doggie is doing better, he is moving more, and can stand up. So we decided with vet that we are going to wait till monday, if he gets better, or not. So please pray that he will!!! But in the same time I was going thru this, my whole team was in Presov doing ministry. I was supposed to have some meetings with girls, but could not go there. So I was very encouraged when I talked to my team on the phone that wednesday and they were telling me very encouraging things that were happening on campus that day. One girl named Mirka-very beautiful name :)) met with Biba and Peta, and they shared gospel with her and she said that she wants to accept Christ into her life by her self, so next monday they are going to meet with her and see if she did it. Jeeej for that. So after hearing that story I was so happy even my doggie is not doing good, I was happy that God is doing big things thru my team in Presov. So I am happy I can be in team, and see how God works....

busy week...

Our first week on campus was very busy. Monday till thursday we went to Presov on campus and did different activities. One of my favorites was " Parkovica" it means sausage party. We grilled many sausages in front of dorms and gave them to students for free. It was really fun evening. One of our students Zuzka, had opportunity to share her faith with one girl at the party. It was amazing for me to see her doing that, and stepping out boldly. On the picture you can see it happening. During the week I had opportunity to meet lots of girls, but I feel like two of them are very special and I definitely want to meet with them again. One of them is Milka, she is very spiritually interested, and is as she said thinking about her life and God. So I already sent her an email to see if she has time to meet next week, so we can talk about God more. So please pray that we will meet. Second girl is Miska, she came to our movie night on tuesday and I meet her in discussion group we had after movie. She is not believer, but she reminded me of myself when I was not believer. I asked her if she heard about Jesus before, and she gave me the same answer I gave years ago to someone who asked me that question. She said," no I never heard of him, nobody told me about Him." So pleeeeeaaas pray that I will be able to meet with her and explain to her what Jesus did for her. thank you for reading and praying. have a wonderful weekend...

left home in summer and came back in fall...

Haha, I just have to share this. Today me and my mom went shopping. We left in the summer but got back in fall. Let me explain. When we were leaving from home it was very hot outside, like really summer weather, and the sky was just beautiful blue, no clouds. We were just running around Kosice and by the end of our shopping day we walked out of Optima- shopping mall, and the sky was just totally grey and some parts were also black kind of looking. Just in one little spot the sun was still trying to shine and saying "hey I am here, I am still here" haha. I was amazed by all that beauty, because watching the sun and sky from Optima parking lot is one of my favorite things to do specially in summer and fall. Well it was just beautiful as usual. In that moment I really didnt think that it is going to rain or whatever. So we went to one more store next to Optima, and when we were coming to cashier and closer to exit I said "mom, I hear really heavy rain" and she was like " no you are just dreaming", but I was pretty sure I hear rain. The sound was like the whole world is falling apart, haha. But it was just raining, no world falling apart haha. I think I never seen such a heavy rain. We got to the exit and we could not even see cars at parking lot and Optima we just saw water pouring down from sky. It was amazing, to see such a think, it just reminded me of the story of Noah when the flood covered the earth. So yes it was amazing to see what God can do with the rain, but I was thankful that God is not doing such a things today, and that He can look at us thru Jesus and His sacrifice. So the end of story, we were laughing with mom that we went shopping in summer but we got back in fall, haha. So we were shopping for the whole season, because it got colder after rain and it feels like fall outside. Ok, hope you all are doing well. Have to run to go watch Superstar... jeeeeejjj.  

feelin brown and permission....

Just feelin like I wanna have my blog brown, lol. I change it all the time, just cant decide, well I think I am just being woman haha. But anyway, we as Kosice-Presov team got permission to do activities at student dorms in Presov. That means that we can be legal, no more sneaking in to the dorms and pretending like we are students. We were trying to get permission from school for a while, but it was just not working out, and employes of Presov University were just throwing us around like a hot potato. Nobody knew what to do with us, and didnt want to deal with it. I honestly can say that it was very frustrating time. So we prayed and prayed and we just knew that God is bigger than all this and that He will do what His plan is, not what ours is. And He did. One day we went, as a team, to Presov, and we just walked around and for the last time pretended that we are students :))) and prayed and searched for Gods will for our team. We wanted to also try to get room for free at dorms, so we can have some activities in there for students, as we did for past years. We went to see the director of dorms and find out that our old good director is gone, "oh Noooooo" I said this is crazy I thought, the old good director already knew us, and now there is new guy who is probably gonna feel "very serious" about his new role. So honestly I was disappointed right there and thinking what is God trying to say? But thank God I am not the leader of our team and dont decide what is gonna happened and I am not God also lol, haha. So our bold leaders Viktor and Biba, went to talk to this new guy. Me and Gabi stayed outside, it was pretty warm day so we enjoyed the sun. After a while Gabi said it is taking to long, where are they? And so we came up with two options or alternatives what happened to them. So first one they are still waiting for the guy to talk to him, and second they are talking to him and he is open to talk so they are really trying to explain what we wanna do. Of course we were hoping for the second one to be truth, but also of course in my head I go I am sure they are still waiting haha, I hate when I am like that. So here they come, and smiling kind of, so we were like "what happened, what happened?" and Viktor said this new director guy is so open to what we wanna do, and was excited about us coming there and doing things for students.  Big Jeeeeeeeeej for that. So the conclusion is that we have permission, to go to the dorms anytime officially, and do anything we want and have room for free for whole year. SUPEEEER. So prayer request would be, pray for the new director, that he is successful in his new position, because there are some people that are not very ok with how he is doing his job- making some changes, also pray for us that we use this permission wisely for God. So pray pray pray.....