Thursday 12 November 2009

DTS - lekce a priprava na misii

Po delsi odmlce Vas vsechny opet zdravim!
Tri mesice lekci se pomalu blizi ke konci. Momentalne mame za sebou 11 tydnu studia a 1 tyden pred sebou :). Uz jsme probrali "Bozi prirozenost a charakter", "Truhla pravdy", "Extravagantni otec", "Zavazi", "Moje identita v Kristu", "Vztahy", "Duchovni boj", "Duchovni dary", "Misie" a pristi tyden je na programu "Evangelizace" - jak teorie, tak praxe (ve meste).
Minuly tyden, pri vyuce duchovnich daru praxe take nechybela. A byl hukot :). Na konci tydne jsme byli vsichni totalne vysileni po vsech tech modlitbach, slovech moudrosti a proroctvi, ale za tu psychickou unavu to stalo! Vsichni nasi vyucujici jsou vynikajici ucitele a pomazani sluzebnici!
Tento tyden nas vyucuje Bruce Stefanik z Chicaga, ktery ma ceske koreny (prarodice byli cesi), tak jsem jeho oblibenkyne :) haha.
My jakozto studenti (je nas tu 10) pracujume a bojujeme za absolutni jednotu, ktera je nezbytna pro nasi misijni cestu na Fiji a Samou.
Odjizdime uz pristi sobotu - 21.11. Odletame z Los Angeles v sobotu vecer a let na Fiji trva 11 hodin. Nase misijni cesta byla puvodne naplanovana pouze na Fiji, ale vzhledem k prirodnim katastrofam na Samoe (maly ostrov v Pacifiku zhruba 2 hodiny letu z Fiji), kterou postihla vlna tsunami, letime pomahat s odstranovanim skod na tri tydny take tam. Takze nejprve budeme tyden na Fiji, pote 3 tydny na Samoe a pak zpet na 4 tydny na Fiji. Fiji i Samoa jsou v prevaze krestanske zeme, ale velice nabozenske. Na Fiji pak hodne take hinduismus, jelikoz zde zije hodne indu.
Na Samoe i Fiji budeme pomahat s odstranovanim skod, ale take prezentovat co jsme se naucili v nasem misijnim treninku - tanec, drama, pantomima, hry s detmim a zaroven delit se s lidmi o vlastni zivotni svedectvi, zkusenosti a prilezitosne kazat.
Prosim Vas vsechny za modlitby. Predevsim za jednotu, viru, moudrost a ochranu po vsech strankach pro nas vsechny!

Saturday 26 September 2009

First month of DTS/ Prvni mesic DTS

First month of DTS is almost over and I feel I should share my experience and how everything is going so far.

Quite frankly, it've been having great and very challenging time at once.
Getting use to american culture, enviroment and DTS rules :)...
Hearing God's convincing and loving voice and having my character changed.
Every week we have a different speaker and each of them is teaching on a different topic: Expressions of worship, Truth box, Character of God, Father's heart.
I have to say even though I've been a christian most of my life I've been learning lots of new and awesome things about God in a way I never heard before.

We are studying 5 days a week for about 5 hours. In the afternoon each of us has some work duty to do for 2 hours. My work duty is in the morning - breakfast preperation (5.45am haha) that means I have my afternoons free.
All weekends are free. We can just hang around - play games, go swimming, play basketball,
voleyball or we can just leave the base for whole weekend as we did last weekend with Angela and Mariana. We drove down to Sacramento which is 2 hours away from Chico and went to visit a russian church where Nicky Cruz was preaching and check out the town. (You can check pictures on my facebook).
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Prvni mesic DTS (Discipleship training school) je skoro u konce, tak se s Vami chci podelit o me prvni zazitky, zkusenosti a pocity.

Po pravde receno jsou to pocity smisene, hodne veci, predevsim ze zacatku, me tady rozcilovalo a nemohla jsem si zvyknout - americka kultura, prostredi, DTS pravidla, apod...
Na druhou stranu plne vedomi toho, ze jsem na spravnem miste ve spravny cas a slyset usvedcujici a zaroven milujici bozi hlas, ktery promenuje osobni charakter.
Kazdy tyden mame jineho mluvciho, kteri vyucuji na ruzna temata: Projevy chval, Truhla pravdy, Bozi charakter, Otcovo milujici srdce.
Musim rict, ze i kdyz se povazuji za krestana skoro cely svuj zivot, tak se kazdy den ucim neco noveho a zjistuji, ze je plno veci, ktere jsem o Bohu nevedela nebo ze jsem pro jiste veci nemela jasne ci presne vysvetleni.

Studujeme 5 dni v tydnu zhruba 5 hodin denne. Odpoledne mame 2 hodiny nejake prace. Moje sluzba je rano - priprava snidane v 5.45 haha, takze odpoledne, kdy ostatni pracuji, mam volno.
Vikendy mame volne. Muzeme zustat tady kolem co bydlime, hrat hry, jit plavat, hrat basket, voleybal ci absolvovat nejake turisticke trasy, kterych je tady kolem plno. Nebo muzeme na cely vikend odjet pryc. Coz jsme udelaly minuly tyden s Angelou a Marianou :). Jely jsme na vikend do Sacramenta, coz je autem odsud 2 hodiny. Navstivily jsme rusky sbor (Angela je puvodne z Kazachstanu), kde kazal a svedcil v sobotu i nedeli Nicky Cruz. (Fotky si muzete prohlednout na mem facebooku).

Buh Vam zehnej

Sunday 6 September 2009

Moje cesta do Chica byla dosti blazniva!
Let do San Francisca byl bez problemu, ale pak to zaclo :)!
Nejdrive jsem ztratila zavazadlo, teda ja ne, ale lidi na letisti. To me nechalo celkem chladnou, jelikoz se to pri delsich cestach, hlavne pokud se prestupuje, stava. Pak jsem spala na letisti a jelikoz pristi rano byla nedele, autobusy, ktere jezdi do centra, nefungovaly jako obvykle, musela jsem si zavolat taxi a jelikoz moje Lloyds banka stihla velmi rychle zablokovat mou kreditni kartu, chudakovi ruskemu ridici taxiku jsem musela zaplatit v librach :).
Autobus, ktery me mel odvest z centra San Francisca primo do Chica uz zrusily, takze jsem se dostala pouze do Sacramenta a tam jsem mela cekat neco pres 7 hodin na dalsi autobus, ktery me odveze do Chica. To znamenalo, ze na misto bych se dostala az v devet hodin vecer a ja mela byt na miste nejpozdeji ve tri odpoledne :).
Takze jsem se rozhodla pouzit zbyle dolary na mestskou hromadnou dopravu a dojet na letiste v Sacramentu s myslenkou, ze si tam vymenim penize a zaplatim si jizdenku na minibus, ktery odjizdi ve 13hod a ve 14.45 je v Chicu. Takze jsem se dostala na letiste, jen abych se dozvedela, ze letiste je prilis male na to, aby tam meli smenarnu, a ze nevezmou libry misto dolaru. Buh musel byt se mnou, protoze me to nechalo celkem chladnou a ani trochu jsem nepanikarila :) no a taky mi poslal pana s polskym prijmenim :), co pracoval u informaci a ja s nim mluvila hned jak jsem dorazila na letiste. Ten pan za mnou pozdeji prisel, aby mi rekl, ze se chysta za dva tydny odjet do Britanie na nejaky maraton a ze bude potrebovat libry, takze je se mnou rad vymeni za dolary.
Cestu do Chica jsem stravila s prijemnymi lidmi v minibuse a prijela na cas :). Moje zavazadlo "prijelo" o den pozdeji.

My journey to Chico; California

Hi tio all of you from Chico in California!

My journey to Chico was a bit crazy! Flight to San Francisco was quite smooth but afterwards the adventure begun!
First of all my laguage got lost, then I slept at the airport. As next morning was Sunday the buses to the down town were not runing as usual so I had to catch a taxi and because my Lloyds bank already managed to block my credit card I had to pay the russian taxi driver with english pounds :).
Bus which suppose to get me all way from San Francisco to Chico was going only to Sacramento and next bus from Sacramento to Chico was leaving in next 7 hours or so. Then I decided to get the public transport to Sacramento airport to exchange my money and take a shuttle bus to Chico insted the greyhound bus.
I reached the Sacramento airport only to find out that they don't have any currency exchange place in there so I was kinda stuck up in there with my english pounds and $2.
Suprisingly I was not panicking at all - God definatelly was with me :) and He also sent me a man with polish surname, who was working at the information desk, who I spoke to earlier to tell me that he's going to England in 2 weeks time and he will need some pounds so we can exchange money with each other.
At 1pm I finally got on the shuttle bus to Chico with nice people and next day my laguage finally arrived too.

Tuesday 18 August 2009

Mission trip

Hello,

I've just setted up this blog to keep you all updated on what is happening during my mission trip.
This week I recieved my visa to States that means I'm leaving UK next sat the 29th of August.
Going to place called Chico which is in California and I'll be studying with Youth with a Mission for 3 months and then other 2 months will be going to some 3rd world country (the outreached destination hasn't been confirmed yet). Will let you know as soon as I know.

Thank you all for your prayers and financial support.
God bless
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Ahojte,

zalozila jsem si tento blog, abych vas mohla informovat o tom co se deje na me misijni ceste.
Tento tyden jsem dostala viza (na 10 let) do Statu. To znamena, ze pristi tyden v sobotu 29. srpna odletam z Britanie do San Francisca.
Jedu do mensiho mestecka v Californii, ktere se jmenuje Chico, kde budu 3 mesice studovat s Youth with a Mission a dalsi 2 mesice pojedeme slouzit do nektere ze zemi tretiho sveta (destinace jeste nebyla potvrzena). Az budu vedet kam presne vyrazim, tak dam vedet.

Dekuji Vam vsem za modlitby a financni podporu.
Buh Vam zehnej