Ahoj (Hello)!
The last few days have been a little crazy, but so good! On Tuesday I flew out of Chicago and on Wednesday I arrived in Prague. It was a long time of travel, but thankfully I was able to fly with my co-leader, Josh, for my first flight (Chicago to Dusseldorf). When all of us intern leaders finally made it to Prague, we hopped on a train and traveled to Cesky Tesin, where the English Camp planning team lives.
After a lovely night of much needed sleep, and a day in town, we left for a cute hotel in Poland for our leadership retreat. Cesky Tesin is right on the Polish border, so it was only about a 40 minute trip. That evening we gathered together and worshiped through song and prayer. It was a sweet time to be together and just praise our Lord before the summer begins. We had a great time of getting to know each other as we all hung out during dinner and later into the evening.
After breakfast the next morning we studied Colossians 1 together. We will be going through Colossians throughout the summer as leaders, which is perfect because there will be four meetings, and there are four chapters in the book. We decided to kick off the summer with verses 28 and 29 as our charge: We proclaim him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ. To this end I labor, struggling with all his energy, which so powerfully works in me.
Before lunch we had a meeting where Nate (the leader of all the Czech camps) described to us our responsibilities as leaders and answered all our questions. After hearing everything more defined, I began to feel more comfortable and more confident with leading. Feelings of inadequacy is something I’ve been struggling with for a while. Christ has been faithful in reminding me that His strength is sufficient and that I should boast in my weaknesses because when I am weak then He is strong. If God has called me to Czech this summer to co-lead, then He will give me everything I need to accomplish what He has for me to do. I’m realizing that I could lead out of my own strength, or I could lead out of His, and His strength is so much better.
We traveled back to Cesky Tesin yesterday afternoon, where Jess (another intern leader) and I are staying with Martina (a Czech who is part of the English Camp planning team). It’s been such a relaxing and sweet time to be together and get to know all the leaders, realizing we’ll be having similar but different experiences throughout the summer. I’m glad to have such an amazing group of brothers and sisters as a support team for each other.
The next couple of days we will be finalizing plans and resting up before we travel to Prague Tuesday evening. The next morning our interns arrive!!! We will meet them all at the airport and the Amazing Race will begin! As this time gets closer and closer, my excitement continues to grow. Please be praying for the rest of the interns as they pack and prepare themselves for the summer, and Josh and I as we finalize plans. Also be praying that our team would be unified and that God would bond us together deeply during the Amazing Race, and that we’d be pushing each other towards Christ from the very beginning.
I hope you all are doing well! Please let me know if there’s anything I can be praying for. Buh ti zehnej (God bless you)!
Prayer Requests:
-Team unity
-Intern’s preparations and travel (Annie, Brianne, and Brad are the other three on our team)
-Josh and I as we finalize plans
-The Amazing Race to bond us together
-A deep spiritual connection on the team where we push each other towards Christ
-The Czech churches we’ll be working with: Hradec Kralove, Havlickuv Brod, Trebic
-The US teams we’ll be working with from Alaska and two teams from Florida
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