{"id":266,"date":"2015-08-01T22:26:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T03:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sip.slovakzionsynod.org\/?p=266"},"modified":"2016-03-16T13:31:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T18:31:09","slug":"canoeing-breakfast-bible-studies-and-much-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"Canoeing, breakfast Bible studies and much more :)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi there! It\u2019s been a while since my last post. I hope I get to remember everything I did this last week and a half!<\/p>\n

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  1. Last Thursday Brother Doug and I went to have lunch with Pastor Rebecca Knox. After that we went to see her congregation st. Daniel\u2019s Lutheran Church. The church is located at a beautiful location on a small hill \u2013 everywhere you look you could see green, especially corn fields. The members of st. Daniel\u2019s are mostly farmers, so they own the land. We looked around the church \u2013 it even has a free clinic that works a few days in a week! The reason we visited the church was that they had a prayer meeting \u2013 a few members from the congregation got together with their pastor to pray for the needs of the church, their members and families. It was great to see people get together to pray and discuss how they can help out their church family. I finished the prayer meeting with the chanted Slovak version of the Lord\u2019s Prayer. It truly was a holy moment, as Pastor Rebecca pointed out.<\/li>\n
  2. Last Friday Brother Doug and I had to get up a little earlier \u2013 we went to a breakfast\/men\u2019s Bible study they have every month. There were five of us \u2013 two Lutherans, one Mennonite, and two evangelicals (I think) \u2013 and we were discussing Epistle to the Ephesians. It was a great way to start the morning! What\u2019s interesting is that, statistically, men\u2019s bible groups usually don\u2019t last long, but this one has been active for seven years now! (if I remember correctly)<\/li>\n
  3. In the evening the Didyoungs and I went to play mini golf! It was a lot of fun (even though I\u2019m not sure if I improved a lot from the last time I played \u2013 which was two years ago \ud83d\ude42 ). I didn\u2019t win, but I did hit the ball into the hole on my first try once! (picture included down)<\/li>\n
  4. On Sunday I got to participate in a Baptism service for the first time. I got to present to my new brother in Christ a candle with the words: “Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.\u201d I also helped out with the Service by leading the prayer, reading from the Holy Scriptures, helping out with the communion and chanting the Lord\u2019s Prayer in Slovak again.<\/li>\n
  5. This Tuesday I went to help out with Pastor Mary of Hope Lutheran church, who was one of the organizers of \u201cTerrific Tuesdays\u201d (or is it Amazing Tuesdays? Something like that). Basically it was a chance for the children to get out of the town, listen to the Gospel stories, do some arts & crafts, play some games. It was at the pool which was near a lake, so I got to swim a little AND canoe! It was a little tricky to balance the canoe, but we managed it. The nature was beautiful (photos down). The photos would be better if I didn\u2019t forget my memory card for my camera, which I did bring. After the fieldtrip I helped out at Hope Lutheran church giving out food to those who needed it and helped out Pastor Mary with the Eucharist.<\/li>\n
  6. This Thursday I went with Pastor Katie again to help her inform the neighbourhood of Christ Lutheran church that they are going to have a Vacation Bible Study (VBS), which will start on Monday and which I will be a part of. And then later in the evening I went to Christ Lutheran to help them out set up everything for a bash they had today (Saturday).<\/li>\n
  7. And today (Saturday) we had another breakfast\/Bible study with my \u2018USA home\u2019 congregation, st. Mark\u2019s Lutheran. We were discussing the book of Esther.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I think that\u2019s everything interesting that happened this last week and a half. As I said in the post, this week I\u2019m going to help out at Christ Lutheran with their VBS, and then I\u2019m going to be preaching next three Sundays (at st. Mark\u2019s, Senior living community called Luther Crest, and st. John\u2019s Lutheran church). And I\u2019ll have my birthday this coming Friday, so I\u2019m looking forward to that.<\/p>\n

    Thank you for reading. Now the photos:<\/p>\n

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    Hi there! It\u2019s been a while since my last post. I hope I get to remember everything I did this last week and a half! Last Thursday Brother Doug and I went to have lunch with Pastor Rebecca Knox. After that we went to see her congregation st. Daniel\u2019s Lutheran Church. The church is located […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americantime","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}