Wednesday, 01 July 2009

• Pics and Lidice...

  Lydia wanted to share a picture of her and Sophia's Build-a-Bears ,(or in Sophia's case, monkey).   These were sweet gifts from their Grandma and Grandpa Denny.

  

  Our church on a typical Sunday morning...... For the past month, "Joseph", a Czech man who we met in Vancouver, (he was staying with his daughters on a visit), has been commuting from Prague to our church. 
  We continue to pray that the Holy Spirit would work in bringing him to salvation.

   

  All the little rascals!

  

  Last week we had the opportunity to visit a castle.  One of MANY in the Czech Republic.

  

  The girls with sweet Katherine Smith

  

  Here's the view of the Czech landscape from the castle wall..

  

  In regards to the pictures in my previous entry, I promised a little snippet about Lidice, our new village.  On the 10th of June, 1942, Nazi Germany made an example of it's cruelty, and power by completely destroying the previous village of Lidice.  Soldiers marched into the village, gathering all the people.  They brought all of the men into a farmhouse and shot them all.  Their bodies were taken  to the village church and the whole building was set ablaze.  All of the women and children were then gathered, separated from one another and sent to concentration camps, although some of the fairer children were brought to Germany to be taken into a German foster system, and therefore were Germanized.  After the war, as part of the restitution to the families who suffered so much, the village was turned into a national monument and park.  Just above the park, (where the village formerly existed), are the homes that were built for members of the families who suffered such hardships.  One of these such homes is where we will live in 3 weeks. 

  This past Sunday we had a block party to meet some of our new neighbors.  The idea of such a gathering is a bit odd in this post-communist, social context.  Many of our neighbors cam and, many of the people, (most were of retirement age), were daughter's/son's, or neice's/nephew's of the original owners.  Marcus was able to share the gospel, and Daniel Adamovsky shared his testimony.  God blessed the evening with such grace.   We continue to hope that God will grow our relationships with many here, and that we would have opportunity to share His grace with them all in a more intimate way as they get to know our family.

  Lastly, I beg of you all to please be praying for the english camp which starts next Friday night.  Satan would love to block the truth of salvation, but we know that all we have to do is stand firm on the truth of the gospel.  I thank you all in advance for your prayers.  None of this would be possible without you!

  One of the monuments in Lidice....an artist found photos of each, individual child of Lidice, and then made this bronze statue, note their sad faces...

  

  This is a photo from the perspective of the previous village to where the new village now stands...

  

   

  • 10:56 AM
  • 73 Views
  • 10 eProps
  • 6 Comments