Czech .... the International Language

Today we had a precious experience that was an incredible way to end our first term here in the Czech Republic....

Every Sunday at noon, the Russian Baptist Church (which consists of people from all Eastern European countries) meets at our building for their worship service.  Our Czech Bible study group meets every Sunday evening at 6:00.

Today we combined our services and had a beautiful International service.  We sang praises in English, Czech and Russian and also heard great sermons in those languages.  Larry spoke in English and Lev (the Russian pastor) spoke in Russian and both were translated to Czech.  It is funny to us for Czech to be the common language...we jokingly say it is the "mezinarodni jazyk" (the international language).

At one point my friend Radka leaned over and said, "All my life I heard from Russians that the US is the enemy,... and now today we are hearing the Word of God from an American and a Russian side by side.

There were about 75 to 80 people worshiping!  About 1/3 of the people were from our group, 1/3 from the Russian church and 1/3 came from our church in Konstantinovy Lazne.

At the end of the service, the pastor from Konstantinovy Lazne gave a great challenge to the believers here, and then he said the kindest words to us and they prayed for us as we will be away for 6 months.

God blesses us in so many ways, but He has truly blessed us with precious Czech friends, and we will really miss them while we are in the States.