peer pressure blogging....!


i will warn you now before you decide to read on that this post is only for those of you who seem to be impatiently waiting for a new update. this post will not contain any of the following..... funny stories of us making cultural mistakes....... exciting adventures and escapades of ours....or complaints about our continual struggle of language learning, ok i guess that was just covered and it may come up again....... i apologize in advance for this but i guess not every post can be the same so continue if u wish but you have been warned!
this past weekend the om hungary team headed out to a castle for our team retreat, ya it was pretty neat. the castle is fairly new in the world of castles, it was built in the early 1900s and was hardly used until recently, due to wars and communism. 5 years ago calvary chapel bought it and turned it into a bible school, quite the bible school! anyways we all (about 30) headed out for a weekend of game playing, team building, scavenger hunting and some teaching, oh ya and kite making! one of the families here is brazilian and apparently kite making must be right behind soccer in national sports. Speaking of soccer, we also had a game in the back gardens of the castle, quite the place for a field! Most of the weekend was spent in the coffee lounges inside though, for all you coffee experts, you will be happy to know that starbucks was served, so as you can guess most of the students are american, the two just cant be separated i guess. We were challenged by the speaker in many ways, one of the quotes that has stuck with me is "God takes people who think they are somebody, makes them realize they are nobody without Him, so that he can reach everybody through them" That is so true for where we are at right now, God is in the process of breaking us and making us realize that if we rely on our own strength to learn the language, to adapt, to...... well you get the idea then we will get nowhere, but when we realize that without his continual strength we are nobodies then he can use us. It so reassuring to now as we feel like we are only struggling to know that he is using just that to make us more effective.