Friends

Some of the guys from the fellowship: Tomas, Jon, Petr and Jason.

Our friends Young and Cindy.

Studying Czech with Gustav and Marchen.

Tomas and Jason with Mike from the Bible School in Hungary.

Thanksgiving in June..

Thanks-giving came late (early?) to Jason's Czech language class this last Friday. Since the course is ending for the year they have been having meals together after class with different students bringing food from their home country. Cara and Noelle cooked up a feast complete with turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy and even pumpkin pie! (Thanks to a few treasured cans of pumpkin pie filling from the states...you can't get it here and pumpkins are hard to come by, too!). Jason even had some Oreos stashed away that he brought...how much more American can you get? Everyone said the meal was great!

Jason has been diligenty chipping away at the Czech language since last fall. Not only has he been able to lay a groundwork of basic understanding of Czech (it's considered one of the toughest languages to learn), but also God has been able to shine through him amongst his classmates that come from so many different countries.

It was in this class that Jason and Young met and that is a friendship that has a blessing to both of them.

Love one another...

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loves is born of God, and knows God. He that loves not knows not God; for God is love. (I John 4:7,8)

We have some friends here that we really love. Americans say "love" much too easily; we "love" ice cream, we "love" football, we "love" our dog. Most other cultures don't say it that freely. But in regards to Yung and Eunhyong, we really do love them. And we also loved the feast Eunhyong prepared for us recently! 7 different traditional Korean dishes (and of course, rice) that took her nearly 13 hours to prepare! Everything from dried squid and snails in spicy pasta to "Korean Pizza" and little fishies with the head and eyes still on them...interesting. Even though most of it was pretty exotic to us, it was all incredibly delicious.

Yung and Jason study Czech together and that is how Noelle and Cara met Eunhyong (or "Cindy" as she said we could call her if her Korean name was too difficult to pronounce). They are expecting their first child soon and so last week Cindy had to leave to return to Korea before they would no longer allow her to fly (due to her pregnancy).

Yung and Cindy had visited our Bible study, and now Yung is continuing since Cindy has left.(Here Yung had something to say after the study that apparently all the girls seem enthralled with!) :) We are all very happy that they have come into our lives. They are both very genuine people, funny, smart and just overall great people. We miss Cindy already. Will you join us in praying that her delivery of the baby will go smoothly, that Yung will return safely and in time to be there then and that God will continue to reveal Himself to them in love and grace? We really love them and know that God does too.

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. (I John 4:9-11)