hit the wall

hello everyone,

i have hit my first wave of exhaustion...the last two days completly sapped me. i sang in the square both days, and last night we did our outreach in the cultural center. the room could seat 100 people but many more than that packed in. the local church's band played some songs, then our team performed two five-minute dramas...then i put on a mini-concert.

i really get into this singing stuff!!! over here in europe they have a shortage on charisma. so i am a bit of a novelty to them. i love to sing and play guitar, but my skills are not exactly professional, so i make up for it with genuine enthusiasm and some over the top theatrics.

at one point yesterday in the square a group of high school kids approached where i was playing. our generator had taken sick, so as curtis (our leader) went to fix it, i decided to just go acoustic. so there i was singing my guts out to the square, when this group of very well dressed high school students walk up to me. (the custom for the last day of school is to dress up in the best possible clothes you have and pretty much make a party of the day.) well many of them are smiling and talking to each other about me in a language i don't know...so i do the only thing i know how to do...really go for it.

it was a bit chilly, so i have a sweatshirt on with the hood on, and my sunglasses. the song i am sining is winding down and so as the group starts to walk away, i get on my knees, then fall to my back and finish the last chord of the song on my back looking at them. they loved it!! and all started clapping...they then approach us and we all start talking. so many of them come to our outreach at the cultural center.

after my mini concert, i preach the sermon. i felt it went over really well...i mainly shared my personal testimony and led everyone in a prayer. afterward we had many great conversations...including one i had with a young guy named daniel. i could tell god was really doing something powerful in him...please pray for him.

today we went to a christian school and got to minister there...i will tell you more later...i have to race to the statue in the middle of the square where our team is meeting in three minutes...it is a great thing to be worn out for the kingdom!!!!!!

tata...scott

today we visited a school in trencin, the biggest city in this region of slovakia. there is quite a beautiful looking castle on some steep cliffs in the north of the town.