It’s the largest youth leader’s conference in Eastern Europe! Youth leaders from all around Slovakia converge on our city of Zilina, every year, to be challenged, inspired and motivated to give of themselves to the youth of Slovakia. For four days, we packed out the largest conference center in our town to it’s capacity (about 650 participants).
Beginning this Thursday evening (April 3, 2008) youth leaders from all over the country will arrive to Zilina for the annual youth leaders conference. Last year a record 600 people attended this event. TCK (Trening Centre Kompas) hosts this event every year and you can imagine how much work goes into this. In fact, the planning for the future year’s conference begins before the previous year’s is even over!
Now, it is less than 2 days away and everyone here at TCK are working frantically to put the final pieces together. Can you please take a few minutes now and pray for this event?
Check out the website for KPM, it’s all in Slovak, but I think you can still get the idea! This year’s theme is “Our identity in Christ”.
On Friday I met with our landlord, Martina. She is a beautiful young woman whom I would call “friend” before I would call her “landlord”. Nevertheless, she also happens to be our landlord and a rather good one at that! Many of you may remember the shock we received about this time last year when we were looking to move (change locations) in an effort to lower our monthly rent. After hearing our decision, she immediately responded by telling us she was willing to lower our rent if that would enable us to stay in her house! So it has been with great joy that we have continued to live here in her house.
Our visit on Friday was hard for both of us. She had the incredibly hard task of telling me that it is time for us to move out of her house. Her “in-laws” desire to live here and she feels that she can not say no to them. Of course we understand this decision completely. And although saddened by the thought of moving (again), Zac and I both are excited about the future possibilities. We are both convinced this is God’s moving. So we can only be excited about that. We really can’t even imagine what that (God’s moving) will look like. Especially in the midst of the weakest dollar value ever (just when we thought it couldn’t go any lower)! However, we still remain excited, believing He is in control and most of all OPEN to what ever He may bring for us.
As for a time-frame, she has not given us a deadline to be out. With that said however, as soon as we find something, they will move in. So in essence it’s “effective immediately” Please help us pray. We need God’s direction and wisdom and provision.
On the same weekend we celebrated Easter, we also celebrated Emili’s 10th birthday! It’s so hard to believe she is 10 years old. Part of us is sad she is getting older, the other part, excited about the young lady she is becoming. We had a great time hosting all her TCK (Third Culture Kids) and celebrating Nancy Drew style! Check out all the photos in the gallery (or just click the above photo)!
