We went to Serbia for the weekend.

{ it's only taken me a week...but here we go }

Last weekend I got the opportunity to go with 15 others for a weekend outreach to Serbia! We were going to do some ministry about about 4 different Calvary Chapel churches there.

We headed out Friday afternoon { and its only about a 3 hour drive }

{ over the border! }

We arrived at the first church, and hung out there while our leader, Lisa, went to get us all registered { I don't know why that is necessary, but it is } so practiced skits, ate one of the most delicious things in the world, Burek! I cannot even describe the goodness of this stuff people.


And we walked around town

{ it is a very pretty city! }

When Lisa came back from getting us registered we drove to another town, where the church that we'd be sleeping at was.

Saturday we got up, drove to another town and spent the day there.

The Pastor of that churches name was Tibor
He is an awesome guy, super funny, and just a very Godly man. His church has been going through a lot... a while back a young girl from the church was "hurt" by a man, whom the police caught...but it made all his other little gang member buddies mad that he'd gotten caught so they came in and vandalized the church. They broke windows, pooped and peed { tmi? sorry } in everyone of the rooms, and there were a ton of give away clothes in one room that they dumped out and threw around everywhere.

{ taken with my ipod...sorry for the bad quality }

So we went in, pulled all those clothes out, put them into another room to be sorted, folded and put back into boxes.

After they were folded and whatnot, Tibor decided he wanted us to take them to his storage space....
in this van...

1960s, cherry red, VW hippie van.

He did not want to make two trips, so we piled them in, and onto the van...and off we went to the storage area.

















It was such a blast! half way to the storage area half the boxes tried to fall off, with only this one rope holding them, but they made it! and we only ended up losing a couple of shirts.

We unloaded, and came back to be fed stuffed paprika's { so good!! }













That afternoon we visited a gypsy village. Tibor and Lisa spoke, we did one of our skits, made some balloon animals, and just hung out with the people.


















We went back to the church later that night, and then back to the church where we were sleeping.

Sunday some of us did kids ministry while church was going on, and others did skits and shared their testimonies. We then drove back to the church we had been at Saturday. We ate and then had plans to go to another gypsy village...but one of our vans broke down.

We spent the next couple hours trying to figure out what to do, so cleaned up around the church some more and hung out. A guy came to look at the van, but it was a no go, so it was figuring out how to get back here.

We contacted the other church that was about an hour away, and there were a couple of guys there willing to drive us...it was just getting us to the other town. So some piled into the one van we had, and the rest of us piled into the cherry red hippie van....with a backseat that was only meant for 6, and there were 8 of us back there.



We had a blast, we really did. It was an unforgettable adventure. Once we arrived at the other church, 4 of us piled into the backseat of a car that was meant for three...we got really close, haha. It was super good though, we had a great weekend. It was great to just get to serve the church and bless those guys.

"The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. - John 10:10

Post about our weekend outreach to Serbia last weekend coming soon!

Szia Friends!
First few days in Hungary have been busy! Friday orientation began, Saturday we finished it up, and Sunday (yesterday) the whole school spent the day in Budapest!
It has been so good to see old friends, and to meet new ones! We have a lot of new students this semester. I believe last semester there was only around 50-60 students, this semester it is around 100. We have people from England, Hungary, America, Romania, Pakistan, India, China, Slovenia, Germany, Africa, Austria, and other places! Very diverse, which I think makes it so much more fun!

I got registered for my classes, I am taking my Missions Class (of course) Acts, and I’m auditing one called Christian Living, then of course Evangelism and Discipleship on Friday (which is required for everyone) and about mid semester I’ll have three ‘block’ classes. Inductive Bible Study, Biblical Missions, and Speakers Week, and my language study of course. So I honestly have a pretty light load…I had plans to take a couple more classes, but after talking to Pam (my MTP class teacher) we decided maybe a lighter load would be better. That would give me more time to focus on my language study and whatnot. And maybe I can get ahead on my book reports (we have four this semester) plus hopefully taking guitar classes.

Also, I don’t know if you remember me mentioning it, but last semester we all get assigned to a servant hood somewhere in the castle. It is considered a class. There is AV, dining room, dish room, coffee shop, housekeeping, laundry, kitchen and landscaping. Last semester I had dining room, this semester I got coffee shop!!

I was pretty excited; I’ve honestly always wanted to work in a coffee shop. I’ve had a couple of shifts already, so I’ve learned to make a few drinks. I think it is going to be a lot of fun…I think the only time I won’t like it is during conferences when there is a ton of people. But hopefully I’ll have it down pretty good before we have one of those.
I’ve almost for sure decided that I’ll take Spanish as my language this semester…I just know I’ll use Spanish a lot. I know a little already, and we have quite a few Spanish speakers here. I’ll possibly change my mind…but I really think Spanish will be the best. See, my goal is to be fluent in at least two languages. I like to say that anyway, whether or not is happens…. Who knows? One language for sure though. Anyway, I feel like I’m babbling.
Yesterday we were up and out of the castle early. It is Calvary Chapels 20th anniversary of being in Hungary (so cool!!) so there was a big shindig in Budapest. We spent a lot of time there, did a little sight-seeing, went to the mall, and went up to the Citadel last, and right before we left got to end the night by doing a little worship. It was awesome, to say the least.

I'm just really excited to see what this semester holds!

{one of my favorite things about Europe...musicians on the streets!}

Hungary!

Just a super quick update to let yall know after 20+ hours of traveling, I made it to Hungary!!!! It was pretty uneventful trip, had a super long and boring 6 hour layover in London.

I'll post more later, but I'm needing sleep!