Exploring Prague

Enjoying the least "missions" part of the mission trip, we headed back toward the airport and spent a day and a half in Prague.  The second day, my college friend Zeb arrived from Brno early in the morning, and showed me around.  We managed to catch a late lunch with my friend Sasha (main translator of the new Czech Bible21 and church planter), and it was good.  I am so thankful that I was gifted to be able to spend this time both with them and with my new friends in Opava.

I may have some more pictures coming once we meet for our debrief meeting & share pix with each other (the thing is when you take your own pix, most of them don't feature yourself!  ;P), but for now here are the 2 final albums from my trip:

Travel to Prague & Exploration
Last Day in Prague

Little Elephants & More

Hi all,

Another short post!  Must pack & run this morning as we are off to Prague for the last 2 days of the trip, but here are 2 more albums for you:

The Last 3 Days of Teaching
Castles & Kids

Sending much love from the Czech Republic!!

Christy

Connecting

Hello everyone!

Sorry for the boring post title but we have ONE charger between 3 of us that works w/my roomies here in the Czech Republic (the one I brought will not work)...so I have to make this quick!  I have some more pics (and LOTS more thoughts!) but cannot post them today.  However, I have put up the albums that cover the first 2 days.  Here they are:

Travel to Czech: June 16 & 17
Day 1 & 2 of Teaching: June 18 & 19

The pic above was last night - we had 10 people come to the event last night, which is the biggest turnout they've ever had.  Tonight we had 4 (1 repeat, a new kid, and 2 adults who live nearby) come out.  Both nights were really good.

Sending LOVE LOVE LOVE all the way from Eastern Europe!  - Christy

We're Here! More News To Come

$2500 RAISED!!! Celebrate!!

Hi Everyone!

The last money just came in to reach my $2500 goal!  So from here, there's nothing more than getting on a plane!

Well, not 'xactly.  But close.  I am putting together a class on geographical places with a team member - Lilian will be covering Jamaica (where she is from), and I'll be covering major cities in the US (NY, LA, Mpls). I'm hoping to make some blow up photos to illustrate as the time I'll get to speak will be comparatively rather short due to the need of translation.  So any additional monies that come in right now will be directed photo-ward here.

Thank you thank you thank you all again!  We did it!!

Eternally grateful,

Christy

Czech Photographer: Martin Rak

I googled 'Czech Sunset' today, after a run near Lake of the Isles where a Monet-ish watercolor sunset hung in the background of the after-rain lake scene.  This find made me happy.  Now I can go to bed.

P.S. $65 more was given toward my trip by the Corner Church in their Sunday offerings!  Now I just have $85 left to go!

So Close!

Hi everyone! 

The fundraiser went fantastically, despite a few hiccups w/performer no-shows.  Those that were there were, true to character, amazing, and Tommy even sat in to do a solo song for us.  In total we raised $175 toward the trip.  I had also received $90 - part in donations, part from headband sales - in the morning at Corner Church, where they let me speak about the trip in two of their services.  This picture is my probably wildly inaccurate rendering of the Czech Republic, which I made for a backdrop.  For more pix of the show, here is a link to the public album.

In the days since, folks have just been pulling me aside and handing me money - $50 pressed into my palm at church, $75 over lunch, $10 for a headband...  Below, my old roomie Charis came down on a visit from Rochester and bought up a bunch of headbands for friends' birthdays! 

The long and the short of it is to say, I've landed recently at a total of $2350, which means I only have $150 left to raise to reach my goal - for which the deadline is the beginning of June.  And it is thanks to all of you who've given or prayed.  I am SUPER THANKFUL.  Like them caps?  ;)  My temp job is scheduled to end at the end of June (though I half hope it will extend those last few weeks until the trip so I needn't worry about jobs until I return), and our church just announced a major transition (happening today, by the way!) to welcome in new pastors and merge with Corner Church, the other coffeehouse-church in our denomination.  So, one less thing to worry about?  Hallelujah!

We have a meeting this Sunday and will be brought up to talk about our trip at Oak Hills Church at their services.  Other than that, not too much new news!  I'll keep you updated! 

Hugs, Christy