youth groups!!

the past two weekends our team has been visiting the czech youth groups we will be partnering with for english camps this summer. these weekends have been both really fun when it comes to building relationships, and encouraging when it comes to spreading vision for what God will do at camp this year in the lives of czech teenagers that don't yet know Him...

  Katka and Zuzka from Vysoke Myto youth group. they're really fun as you can see : ) 

a few of my favorite things during our weekend with the Sumperk youth group:

-simplicity. the first hour we were together the 13 of us just stood around throwing frisbees around the circle. i LOVED this... not because the activity was thrilling or anything, but because i just love the group of people i was with!  

-hearing Babu pray in english. Babu is an 18 year old girl in the youth group that became a christian at camp last summer. she's wonderful, and wonderful at english. even if a czech person is good at english, it's rare that they would pray in english. maybe it's too hard not to focus on if you're using the right words or not? i don't really know, but at one point this weekend, we were praying in smaller groups for english camp and Babu said "okay, i'll pray in english..." i said she didn't have to, but she still did. boy was i glad she did. i can't even say how beautiful is was to hear/UNDERSTAND her genuine prayers to God, while only a year ago she wasn't following Him.