The Mayflower has returned to Europe!

 Another year of a gigantic turkey and lots of fun celebrating Thanksgiving with about 50 Czech friends.  This year we were fortunate to be visited by some visiting Pilgrims and an Indian who told the story of the First Thanksgiving. We were once again able to share why we are thankful to God: for creating us, loving us and saving us...

Mom's Club

This Fall we started a new Mom's Club as a spin-off of the Mom's class at English camp.  We meet on Fridays: sometimes for a little English conversation, knitting lesson, baking cookies, reading from the Bible, praying together... but in whatever we do, we want to encourage these young moms and point them to Jesus.
The lady in the right picture is Joyce. Joyce and her husband, Dale are believers from Michigan, and they are here for about a year while Dale is working in a nearby town. Joyce has been awesome!  She has jumped on board. She loves on those babies and the mommas too! She has been a great blessing!

A Week for Remembering!

Seven years ago this week (October 8) we landed in the Czech Republic with our family and 18 suitcases.  It has truly been an adventure!  Today (October 10) is also a memorable day. Four years ago (10/10/10) we had our first official church service in Plzen. Through good and bad we are so thankful to be a small part of what God is doing in Western Czech.  Here are some of our special memories from the last seven years:

• meeting the Dominik family our first week in Czech. From the very beginning of our time here, God has provided countless precious friends who we are so thankful for. But I will always remember that first offering of friendship our first week when everything was so strange and new. I took Laini to kindergarten and tried to communicate with the people when a sweet mom stepped towards me and said, "Hi my name is Dominika. I speak English, I will help you." and she and her family have been our great friends ever since. 
• being part of a new church (we love our church family here)
• English camps with FBC Forney, TX
• Thanksgivings with Czechs (whose reactions to seeing such a big turkey is priceless) 
• working with some awesome American mission teams
• European tent vacations
• being able to play/coach American football
• the people (everywhere you go, people are people-good, bad, nice, grumpy... so sometimes the people are included in the blessings and sometimes in the challenges, but we absolutely love the Czech people and are thankful to be here working with them.
• great friends for our children

 Exit (our youth group) meets weekly. Here are some pictures of our student-led October outreach. 30-40 students came to have lots of fun and hear the Gospel.