It is so weird to be in the Czech Republic. Why? It is so modern. After being to so many 3rd world countries, or at least 2nd world, it feels abnormal to be in a modern country. Czech is part of the European Union, has well put together highways and train stations, along with having Starbucks, McDonalds, and Burger King, it feels so much like America.
While it has been a nice break and a trial run at re-entry, I also didn’t sign up for modern missions when I picked the race.
Now don’t get me wrong there are definitely people who need and haven’t heard of Jesus, but for the first time in 8 months I’m kind of craving a hot tent, no A/C, and no showers. Those words might come back to bite me, but I’m willing to risk it.
What are we doing in Czech?
We have two main objectives while in Czech. The first one, which is now over, was advertising English Camps. English Camps are camps for Czech students to come to over the summer and learn English from Americans. While at camp they also get the chance to hear the gospel. It is a super cool program! We promoted them by going to Czech schools in 4 different cities all through last week. We would go into classrooms and give our sales pitch for about 45 minutes then head on to the next classroom. We stayed in a different city and bed every night last week!
Discussion groups in one of the Czech classes.
For the next two weeks we will again be traveling all throughout Czech helping out and talking with high school kids about Fusion. Fusion is a music ministry where the kids are taught popular rock songs in English and that is what draws them in. They come to a youth group type setting to sing the songs. Then the leaders get the opportunity to form a relationship and share the gospel.
Though I am not musically talented it will be fun to talk with the kids. One of the things I found while promoting English camps is that they are all interested in Christianity, especially when it is talked about by someone as cool as me J, just kidding, but just being American really does elevate you in their eyes. Its been great to see all reservations at sharing the Gospel continue to disappear over the course of this trip.
