Snacks on Sunday

Sunday was the last day at the English Camp. We wrapped class up with emotions, snacks and the outdoors. After classes were finished we went back to the Missions center in Brno, and had an evening worship service.

In the mornings we had a prayer meeting and Bible study
before we started the day. In the middle is one of the pastors
of the local church.

This is our class, eating American candy and snacks. This
was by far the best class, there was laughter and smiles, and
some conversation as well.

After everything was finished we had trivia on what had
happened over the weekend. Things like the phrases in the
game of telephone, quotes from 'The Magnificent Seven' and
other stuff like that.

This is the team, all of us are American except the lady in the
front. The four in the middle are the resident missionaries, and
the two on the right side of them are military who drove over
from Germany.

Our last meal at camp, a traditional Czech dish of beef and
Czech dumplings.

This was the worship team ;)

Mr. J preached that night, and afterwards we had a great
atmosphere of prayer and reverence.

This is the Senior pastor of the Czech church.

So that's all of the English camp, I'll post some sightseeing pictures of Vienna and Prague over the next few days!

All the Best,
The Tall One

In Brno

So we stopped off first in Brno in the Czech Republic. We stayed there in between going to the English camp and everywhere else. These first few pictures are pretty common to the Czech landscape; big rolling hills and medium sized trees with little leaves.

This was in the car on the way from Prague to Brno.

We went up to a hill just away from Brno to get a look at it
from far away, this is an airfield a few minutes away from
where we stayed.

This is a district of Brno called Meleansky (don't quote me
on the spelling). Our rooms were in the middle right section
of the picture.

That is Mr. Y pointing out his dream for the city, each section
of town had a story, it was really cool to see how the church
was spread throughout the city.

Czechs like to hike, and there were hiking trails
everywhere.

This was a large church in Brno. A monument
to the Czech's lost Christian heritage. All the
churches in the Czech Republic are like the
spiritual lives of its citizens. Empty and dead,
though wonderful.

Just a street in downtown Brno where we did
a little souvenir shopping.

A little point two liter coke at a hotel where we had lunch.

This is a traditional Czech meal; Dumplings (this was a sampler
of dumplings, clockwise from top left; traditional, Viennese,
and potato), which are made by boiling dough, beef, a roast,
two types of sauerkraut and some sauce, usually goulash.

This bakery took up half of a schnucks type grocery store. 

A McDonald's in Brno

A cheese shop... oddly enough.

Apparently there are a lot of hedgehogs in the Czech
Republic, and they are pretty popular in the culture.
(No, I didn't see any)

Another church, this one was quite a bit bigger.

That's all I've got for now. The next post will be a rundown of the day or two before the English Camp, and how we had some last minute preparations.

All the Best,

The Tall One