Poloha. The LIFE and Ministry in SK.

My siblings

I love my broter and 3 sisters.

Iveta is the only one at the moment living in different country so it is allway a great event whe she comes with her family for the visit.

We did some trips and eat some good food even grilled.

My mother came almost too and that would be first time in last 2 years. The good news about my mother is that she is finally back home. 17 years ago she left our family running away from all of us from our father to live with another man. At the presence she is by herself alone because all of us have moved away or have got our own families. I pray that she will let Christ to transform her life entairely because as for now she lives under compunction as how people point at her with finger how bad person she is. I think she has problem to receive forgivenes that CHrist ofers to her. SHe lacks friends and I am just looking for the way how to get her closer to us here in SLovakia. Besides that my kids do not know her and that is so sad for me.

End of kindergarden for Oli

Oli finished his 3 years of kindergarden. Oli has meet there a good friends and learned a lot of things. We are proud on him and thankful to God for giving us such great experience through the staff and teachers that Oli had.

We pray that he will keep good and look forward to a new phase of his life in elementary school.

We have had a long proces on making good decission on which school he would go. We have prayed and fasted and ask for wisdom and finally we have decided to ask Oli to decide for him self. He didnt know but then there was a event that helped him and us to decide. I’ll write about it in next blog.

KPM 2009 23. – 26. April

This 16 th conference brought for 560 attenders the attitude of RESTART in their relationship to God, to people and to their service. The topic was again very relevant as we found out from reactions of attenders who said that there is lack of balance between activities, programs an personal relationships with other youth members but also with God alone.

Main speakers focused on restart in the area of personal passion for God, restart in your ministry, your attitudes, restart in relationship with the word of God and Discipleship. This year we added different artists to our main sessions for more inspiration and for the reason that youth workers could see different ways and possibilities on how to do youth ministry. There where around 70 participants that where led by Gods spirit and created great KPM atmosphere which God used for encouragement, change, inspiration, and for to gain new strength for such important ministry in Slovakia.

There were also another 70 volunteers who sacrificed a lot of hours and gave their gifts and abilities so that KPM could be a place where youth workers with their teams returns each year. The leaders of different areas at KPM who provide different services with their teams of volunteers they bring a lot of joy and inspiration and this year because of volunteers we have got to grants. One from our city and one from the government.

The conference main room in Žilina was …

Blog problems…

Dear all,

I hate not to have blog that is 100%. For last 7 months it just didnt work.

I will now write all of major happenings since April.

Draho.

CampFest 2009

The biggest christian event that gathers around 5000 young people across the whole country of Slovakia. This is a 4 day trip to the nature with friends.  There are around 5 main stages full of bands that goes on almost 24 hours non stop. This year topic was VIP - which stood for: Influence, Information, Change of children of God. The main speaker was Josh McDowell and Danny Jones. The most glorious moment happend when hundreds of these young people came out on invitation to except Christ or needed a change in their lives.

My personal role was the back stage as a stage manager/production. I was invited by Milan Macek who was responsible person for the main stage. Well and because I also disciple him it was great to do something together. We had the team of 7 people who shared the responsibilities and It was the best team ever. The special part of the work was to help Audioadrenaline to set up and help them to do the best performance. And really the Audioadrenaline visit to Slovakia was the result of our TCK visit to the Youth Specialities convention in Pittsburg last year in November.

This year’s special was that I took my whole family with me. Zuzka rented a little house on wheels and we had some good fun being together.

The day before this festival started I was asked to speak to 200 volunteers. I spoke and lead the worship. It was such a honour to do it. I have asked God and pleaded for right message and God have gave it to me. I speak on how God loves to surprise His children. God has revealed Himself to me as the one who loves to come and use it to test our faith. Also I have found out over looking on my own life how much He uses all of those surprisses to show how Good He is. It is so often that I expect that when it comes to surprisses that I think that it should be all only Good experience not bad (like when God allowed us to have our car stolen). Well I pray that when I will be surprissed by God next time and it would be somethink I do not really like that I would trust Him that He is up to something VERY GOOD. What a blessed time it was to call all of these volunteers to trust God more… And this year we had really a lot great the best volunteers.

Summer camps KECY.sk

What a great opportunity to get away from the office desk and lay my hands on peoples lives. This summer we did 7 english conversational evangelistic camps. We did it together with 7 different local churches accross our country. In this way we are fulfilling our vission statement “Through our whole lives to train, help and inspire youth leaders who are raising up the next generation of Christ followers in the church”. The way how we from TCK did it is that each one of us became a member of the local’s church leadership team for that camp. Beforehand we would help train the teams and then we would walk closely with the slovak leader of the camp. In this way we really do not lead the camp but are enabling a local church to do it. We help providing the US team of students that would come and live christ’s life, speak in english and love students with His love. And the result after they hear gospel message and are challenged to make decission for Christ they do come to Him. We also help with the follow up that usually goes around the whole year till the next summer camp.

This year my little family and I  were invited to LEVICE. I have became part of team of 10 young passionet young people full of expectations and faith to see God entering in to their 36 nonchristian friends. And yes on the last night when the invitation was offered two of them did it and around 8 of them wanted to pray and disscus about life issues. We praise God for that. One of the highlights was to observe te Slovak team. Wen we gave invitation that was one last room where people if they wanted they could come to exept Christ in their life and all the slovak team went to that room and prayed together for 3 hours. End each time someone would come one of them would join to that person and help them to make most important decission in their life. I was moved by this. Just BEAUTIFULL. God has blessed this church by giving them such faithful young servants who are passionet to welcome new believers in to His kingdom.

The biggest highlight for me was that again I could take my whole family to this camp. Oliver would usually stay at the evenings main program where we went through the STORY of GOD. One night ather one of the storyes Oli said: “Wow now I know how Satan became to exist.” I love to see how my whole family becomes part of this ministry as well.

After the camp we had after camp party where some parents came and two of the girls even gave their testimony. Now they continue to meet with them on bible studies and partyes.

Oli the sports cup winner

Well this is the story of a boy who is stout to win. We have been taking him twice a week for the whole year for this hour of sport time with another 15 boys. His hight usually rank him third from the lowest end. His waight too. So small and light but so fast and stout.

Through the year they have learned to be disciplined to listen and excersize. They have learned most popular sports. They did a lot of running.

The day of counting the points from the whole year training came and we have all went. The gym where they did their sport was full of students and parents. First they call all of them to receive the medail for participation.

Then Third place for the triathlon, First place for speciall clubs compettition with bariers against the time.

By this time we thought that will be just enough but then it came. Oli has won the cup as youngest and his times where better then some times of older generation.

We have celebrated this surprisse and realized that God just made Oli to move and move fast. So when I have talked with him which school would he like to attend he told me that it would be the one where he could become even better in sports.

Summer ENGLISH camps (KECY) - PREPARATION

The trip to the East went really good.

Pray for us as we GO to the east… 20. - 25. march