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| The monastary which was the venue of our weekend away |
My last trip took place in the middle of August where I took a group of teenagers to the UK for a week to help with a Holiday Bible Club in Suffolk. They were aged between 14 and early 20s and they all did a fantastic job - it was such an answer to prayer, so thank you to all of you who were praying for us. There were a few bumps on the way - last minute passport and ticket issues but we all got there safely. We spent the first day and a half in London before travelling to Suffolk. It was such a great chance to build connections and relationships with the people in the church there. HBC ran for 3 days and they had over 60 kids every day. For the Slovene teenagers it was eye opening to see all the work, the team effort and the numbers of people involved. I truly and honestly have nothing negative to say about the trip and the teenagers. They did everything that was asked of them with a smile on their faces - in fact they went over and above what was asked of them. Since most of them were over 18, I gave them a lot of freedom to wander and explore and it was just a real joy to lead and to see them adapt to the new environments.
Because of the way timings worked out, we travelled back from the UK directly to our church weekend away (via Croatia and Hungary). For the last few years our weekend away has taken place in the north east of the country in a monastary - as pictured above. Although we were all pretty exhausted from our travels, it was a joy to be able to spend time with the church family. We also had people from 3 other churches join us. On the Saturday we had a group come just for the day. Included in this group was L, a teenager who had joined us at our youth camp earlier in the summer. Before camp she had barely opened a Bible before. At camp she was really engaged with everything and bought some books. Apparently since then she has been reading the Bible on her own and is in contact with her local church. It was so amazing to see her come for the day, especially since she brought her mum K with her. Please be praying for L and K. Thank God for the work he is clearly doing, but please pray that they would both come to know him as their Lord and Saviour.
So now summer has finished, holidays are over and I'm looking to the term ahead. Our first youth group meeting is tonight and I hope to be able to start my one to ones next week. I am also starting to get busier with ECM work. Please be praying that I would get into a good rhythm and that I would keep leaning on God for all things.
