Pic 1: After breakfast, everyone help around in the kitchen to get things done faster.
Pic 2: Enjoying whatever we do... good isn't it... so that's why we have choice whether we want to enjoy, be happy and think positively or feeling bad and think negatively.
Pic 3: One chicken, one duck... i never understand what she is saying, she never understand what i'm saying... hehehe... but i got to learn some words from here like nose in german, etc.... hahhahaaa
Pic 4: The Methodist church that Ps Robert and Rachael is pastoring.
Pic 5: Waiting for one another outside the church, this is the place that we stay, in the church. The pastor and family are staying in the church too.
Pic 6: This is Ps Robert, Rebecca (5 yrs old), Rachael and Daniel (3 yrs old) [left to right]. We are walking to a Museum.
Pic 7: On the way, we saw a Greek Catholic church. 55% of Slovak ppl are catholic so according to Ps Robert, it is hard to evangelize to them coz they believe salvation by work not by faith.
Pic 8: Museum at Michalovce
Pic 9: This is a donation box in the museum, u can see some of the money there. Dakujem means thank you in Slovak. Dl and i learn a few words from the internet before we went to Slovakia but of course dl learn much more in Slovakia coz he is smart.... =)
Pic 10: This is the town in Michalovce. After the visit to the museum, we look for a place for lunch. It is going to be 1pm and we are late, suppose to follow Ps Robert to a gypsy's family to do bible study at 2pm.
Anyway, we had our lunch and we walk back to the church to get the cars to the gypsy's family at 2.30pm...
Pic 11: This is one of the gypsy family that Ps Robert is reaching out... they are very poor, gypsy's family are poor, well there are rich one as well, the rich are very rich, and the poor are very poor. This family that we visited had 4 children and her husband is in UK working there. Their house is not very small and they have a big garden but is quite run down and this is the kitchen, we sit around the table, not much furnitures and there are flies around us.
Gypsies are the one that Slovak ppl look down at because of some historical story. According to Ps Robert, it is hard to reach out to gypsies coz they will agree with us in whatever we say just to please us, but deep within, we really don't know whether they really believe or not. Ps Robert had a church for gypsies and the members always changed. When this group of gypsies are not happy with u, they will go to other church, and other church members from that church will go to your church instead because there are many groups among themselves as well. =) It is hard work, may God send revival to them.
Pic 12: Ps Robert sharing about the story of Isaac and Rebecca in the Bible, so there are 3 rebecca there... hehehee... talk about us as God's children need to be obedient, follow the teaching from the bible and sometimes God will send ppl to guide us, we need to obey as well... Then Ps Robert gave examples like sometimes the teenagers need to obey their parents if parents don't agree with the partner that they choose. Then Ps Robert asked me and dl to share how do we choose our partner, oooohhhh.... anyway, i share mine and dl share his on how we got confirmations to be together.
Pic 13: The other 2 daughters of this gypsy's family
Then we went to visit Ps Robert's outreach church to the gypsies... He had another pastor working together with him, she is Ps Svetlana, a very pretty lady... hehehee... she is a slovakian and she knows how to speak german... so she can communicate with dl and gang very well.
Pic 14: One of the meeting room
Pic 15: The worship team
Pic 16: The girl in the midst of us is Ps Svetlana, she is sharing some message from the Bible and it is in Slovak language, so no idea what they are talking about... kekekkee, unless Svetlana translate it to german and dl translate it to me. That day there ain't so many ppl coz all the gypsies went shopping, they got their salary... so a few ppl there only... heheheee
Pic 17: Dl and I playing with Rebecca and Daniel, they are very shy so need to make fun of ourselves to bridge to them.... Daniel and Rebecca was pulling grass outside the church so we use those grass and make into rings, necklace, crowns... hehehehee
Pic 18: Ps Robert swinging the kids and the rest looking. We are at the backyard of the gypsy's church... they have big place...
After some time of fellowshipping with their church members, we went back home to Ps Robert's church and we had our dinner... suppose to be bbq nite but end up cooking it in the kitchen coz its too windy...
Pic 19: Our windy dinner outside the church... heheheheee... ppl might think that it is a restaurant since so many of us eating. We have few church members with us and one of the couple is Pavol and Marianna, is one of Ps Robert's church member that dl and group knows coz they went to Germany to visit dl's church before i think... ahaha
Pic 20: Last pic for this blog... does it look delicious?? hahahahaaaa....
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