I'm just right in the middle of a crazy week of Inductive Bible Study classes.
much love
-s
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Grape harvest festival, and superheroes.
It is cold and rainy outside, and I'm curled up in the coffee shop, sipping hot chocolate, bundled up in a cozy sweater, with one more of my homework assignments out of the way.
I've been super blessed this weekend people, let me tell you.
Yesterday I woke up to fall. If you know me, you'll know fall is my most favorite season. I love the feeling in the air, the leaves falling off the trees, pretty much everything about it. I made my way to our Saturday morning brunch to find that we were having biscuits and gravy. Honestly, that alone would have made my whole day, but it got better. We were informed of a grape harvest festival going on in the village, so a couple hours later a group of us headed into the village.
It is a true cultural experience. The people dress up, and decorate their wagons. They go through town, then they all get out and eat, and dance.
I cannot even express how cool it was. These kind of things are one of my favorite things about being in a foreign country, I love getting to be a part of their traditions and seeing their culture. Everyone was so nice, they offered us pastries, and when they started dancing pulled us in to dance with them.
After the festivities were over we headed back to the castle.
Its so much fun to see how creative everyone gets with their costumes, and I think out of the theme nights we've had so far this has been the one most participated in.
This morning I was able to go with a couple of sweet friends of mine with one of the families to church. It was such a blessing, it is kind of hard to go anywhere to church on Sunday's, so its really great anytime we get the opportunity.
So this has been my weekend. I'm a little sad it is almost over, but this time next week I'll be in Romania!
Enjoy your Sunday everyone!
Much love,
-Sara.
I've been super blessed this weekend people, let me tell you.
Yesterday I woke up to fall. If you know me, you'll know fall is my most favorite season. I love the feeling in the air, the leaves falling off the trees, pretty much everything about it. I made my way to our Saturday morning brunch to find that we were having biscuits and gravy. Honestly, that alone would have made my whole day, but it got better. We were informed of a grape harvest festival going on in the village, so a couple hours later a group of us headed into the village.
It is a true cultural experience. The people dress up, and decorate their wagons. They go through town, then they all get out and eat, and dance.
We joined in on the dancing!
I cannot even express how cool it was. These kind of things are one of my favorite things about being in a foreign country, I love getting to be a part of their traditions and seeing their culture. Everyone was so nice, they offered us pastries, and when they started dancing pulled us in to dance with them.
After the festivities were over we headed back to the castle.
That nights theme for dinner was superhero/damsels in distress.
This morning I was able to go with a couple of sweet friends of mine with one of the families to church. It was such a blessing, it is kind of hard to go anywhere to church on Sunday's, so its really great anytime we get the opportunity.
So this has been my weekend. I'm a little sad it is almost over, but this time next week I'll be in Romania!
Enjoy your Sunday everyone!
Much love,
-Sara.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
This whole year I’ve been learning more about God’s character…and it’s awesome. It isn’t that I haven’t known He is almighty, powerful, loving, and all those things…but sometimes things just become real to you in a new way, and you experience it, and it just knocks your socks off. His character has become more and more real to me every day. I find myself getting so focused on my own abilities, and how I come up short, but all I’m doing is putting my eyes on myself, and not Who is in me.
1 John 4:4 “You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.”
I just see that when am asked to do anything that terrifies me, or stretches me in any way I look first at my own abilities, instead of looking first at His. I fall way short, I think we all do. I don’t know what any of you are going through right now, but if God is asking you to do something and you don’t think you can, remember to look up. He equips those He call. He is good, love, the fountain of living water, longsuffering, just, and powerful. I’m still learning this, and He is constantly reminding me of it, but it is so good. His strength is made perfect in our weakness!
With that, I’m asking for prayer for these next couple of weeks… Our 10 day outreach teams leave out in 9 days! I’m going Romania, and we’ve got others going to Greece, Kosovo, Serbia, and here in Hungary. Pray that the Lord prepare all our hearts, keep us all safe, and that we can effectively share Christ with those we come in contact with. A lot of the teams will be doing street witnesses, working around different churches, sports ministry, etc. We’re going to orphanages and to an abandoned baby hospital, I believe we’ll be doing some skits and street witnessing as well. I think they are all going to be amazing, but super challenging trips.
Hoping the rest of yalls week is amazing!
Saturday, September 24, 2011
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
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.
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...
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.
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.
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