Update for August

Well everyone, things are in high gear and the Lord continues to stretch me in the areas of faith and in relationship to being “poor in spirit” according to Jesus’ sermon on the mount in Matthew 5.

I want to share with you all about my parents’ reconciliation and wedding for it was beautiful. I am still amazed everyday at how God’s power and strength can be and should be manifested in the lives of His people. It has truly been a blessing to watch them grow in their faith and their relationship unto the Lord. I have been touched by watching my father become the Christian father and husband to my mother and vice-versa for my mom. The new house is great and is a new start for them, but the burden of the other unsold houses are heavy upon them. Please pray for God to bring the right buyer but even more that God would draw them near to Himself and they would seek Him together as a newly remarried couple.

At this time BTS is moving forward, Vlada and Eliska are hard at work getting the facility ready for the students and all necessary preparations to begin pouring our lives into these students for the sake of Christ. I talked with Vlada the other day and he told me that they are dry-walling the rooms. He also told me that at this time we, speaking of BTS, are extremely low on financial support for the school. We are in great need for support for operations and student support. Since Czech has a social governmental structure, we as BTS will need to support these students. Likewise, supporting these students will encompass costs of living while they are studying full time for two years. I encourage all of you who read this blog to consider supporting BTS in all ways: prayer, encouragement and financial resources.

In a related note, I have been asked to stay in the USA for a month or two longer to help raise support for the ministry. Monika is here with me and she will have to change her ticket to stay with me and my family for a while longer, but we are satisfied in the way the Lord is leading us. So if I might ask you to pray for us, for churches to be willing to meet, for open hearts of people here to be willing to help BTS, and for Monika and I to have the strength of the Lord, for when we are weak we are made strong by His power and strength. This is a long process and I know it has only just begun, but God is gracious and kind to His people, we must be obedient to His commands. Much love and may our Lord bless and keep you all.

Here is a picture from the wedding ceremony.

NEW NEWS!

It has been a while since I have written in my blog and I am not sure how many of you will have known that I became engaged to a wonderful woman, Monika Polakova a few weeks ago. And my parents were remarried after 17 years of being divorced, the picture is at their private wedding. God has been challenging me and preparing me for a life of service and I wish to share this with everyone who has supported me through the years. I will write more once we have internet at home.