The Walls Around Us!!!

We are standing in front of the only section left of the Plzen wall. The rest of the wall was torn down to modernize the city a few hundred years ago. That modernization along with forced Catholization followed by communism and finally western materialism have left new walls. These walls are around the hearts of the people.

Please pray with us as we look towards the future in Plzen, and begin to seek ways to break through the walls.

Ask and you shall receive!

We had depleted our supply of books in English this summer...until... The awesome team from Montana came to help with English Camp. They asked if we needed anything, and since the kids (especially Larissa) had read everything in English we could find, we asked for some books. Wow! did we ever get books! Tricia Goyer (author and this MT mission team leader) asked if any of her author friends would like to donate some books. Thank you to everyone who sent books for us. What an incredible gift to us. We have been sharing the books with many other M's and enjoying them for ourselves.

Our First Year!!!

Our first, incredible year in the Czech Republic:

-We've learned another language (Well we are working on it!).

-We made some funny language mistakes and learned that Czech people are pretty gracious.

-We bought food that wasn't what we thought it was.

-We've spent way too much time together in this apartment and we learned what we like and don't like about each other!

-Zachary has been to Greece, Hungary and the USA by himself.

-We went skiing in Austria.
-Larry earned his hunting license and gun permit in Czech.

-We have met some awesome Czech Friends!!

-Melissa teaches English to 1st and 2nd grade Czech kids and loves them.

-We had a very Czech vacation to Croatia (tent in the hot sun included!)

-Laini got a wonderful rabbit named Yeti.

-Larissa and Larry hiked 23 km (14mi) in one day

-We have been able to share the love of God with people from another culture in another language

- We have learned how awesome God is!!!