Day 5 videos

Worship in Cinobana- Josef is a cool singer

Morning worship- Life is Good, Eternal Life is Better

Morning games - Balloon relay races

Day 5 - Our visit to the gypsy church: Cinobana

The 2nd day of camp went really well.  In baseball, we separated into our 2 teams, Yankees and Dodgers.  We started working on drills and had our first scrimmage.  The Dodgers dominated on this day.  After camp, we went to the gypsy church in a town called Cinobana.  We sang worship in their language and Harvey, our team leader lead the sermon.  We had a great time of fellowship with the members of their church.  It's awesome to worship and fellowship with believers in another country.  We all share the same love of Christ.  After the service was over, we went out to dinner for pizza and some traditional Slovak food.

Josef and Katka, who lead the worship at the gypsy church in Cinobana. 

Part of the Slovakia missions crew!  

 Gypsy children hanging out and having fun.  

A street in Cinobana

A stork that lives near the gypsy church.  Bringing food to its kiddos

Josh eating the traditional Slovak dish: halushky

Dessert!  Pizza style

Day 4 - First day of camp

*Chris speaking* This morning we woke up to SUNNY skies. Praise the Lord! :) Camp started at 9am. We have about 100 students in attendance and 30 translators. During the morning, Josh teaches the Baseball Clinic and I teach English to a small class of 9 year-olds. My three translators are wonderful and love helping out. We had a good morning talking about "home" and "family." The students were pretty quiet until we started playing games. 

In the afternoons, Josh continues with Baseball, while I teach art. It was a great first day and we are excited for the rest of camp. Thanks for all your prayers! 

Chris and her translators: Kiki, Vikki, and Claudia

The shoe hunt game- morning activities

Chris and her class

3 of Chris' art students

The first home run of the camp!  Kind of....

Random baseball video

Peter says hello, i think?

Day 3

On Sunday, we went to church.  It was a long service, 3 hours in fact, but really awesome.  We witnessed 8 baptisms, one baby dedication, worship songs from the home church and gypsy church, and communion.  Three local churches gathered for this event.  The baptisms were very cool, because each individual got up and shared their personal testimony and why they wanted to be baptized.

worship time, Slovak style!

This young man is a member of the gypsy church, and had an incredible testimony.

the baby dedication

Today, we had a meeting discussing the camp schedule and team responsibilities.  We were introduced to our translators.  Chris gets 3, because she needs a lot of help.  :)  Chris' translators are: Viki, Claudia, and Kiki.  My translators are Tom, Lubo, Lucy, and of course, my main man, Peter.  Please pray that as we build relationships with them, we are able to have opportunities to share our faith.  Tomorrow we get to go to the local church and witness a baptism.  Camp starts in 2 days and we can't wait!

Day 2 - Meetings and Setting up our Classrooms

They have mocha frappes (iced mocha) in Slovakia! 

Coffee time! Check out the pretty flower in Chris' drink

The one on the left is the Lutheran church, and the cross on the right is the Catholic church.  Rumor has it that the Lutherans put a rooster on their steeple to remind the Catholics that Peter (of whom the Catholics revere) denied Christ three times and then a rooster crowed. 

Chris' translators decorated her chalkboard for the first day.

Miss Diekman's classroom

Saturday lunch at the 3Pe Center

One choice was pizza with ham and corn.  That's one you don't get in the States!

                                              The 3P Center, where all our meetings are held

                       

                                                 the van that picked us up from the airport