Fall Retreat

On a cool Friday afternoon we made the trek over to the bus station, piled onto our bus and made the three hour journey to Fall Retreat.  You see the group from Bratislava and Kosice to the left.  We had a few new faces and many old ones come together for a weekend of spiritual conversations, fun, and fellowship.  

Mark Sanders spoke to us about satisfaction.  He is on staff with Campus Crusade in Budapest, Hungary, after starting movements in Romania.  He worked with Student Venture (Campus Crusade's high school ministry) and therefore had no problem engaging the crowd, even with a translator.  

Between Mark's talks we spent time in groups discussing what Mark had said, it was encouraging to see students leading discussion groups in Slovak and hear them sharing their testimonies with others in the groups.  It gave us a vision of the indigenous movement of Slovaks we will be leaving empowered to reach this part of the world for Christ after this year.  

We also spent some time enjoying the mountains where we were as well.  We played some volleyball, some went on a hike, and some of the girls tried to make friends with the sheep who were grazing through the field where our cabin was.  I also had my first taste of buchti (boo-kti), which is a dinner of a pastry filled with a dab of jam and then covered in a sauce similar to chocolate milk.  So basically every kid's dream of dessert for dinner.  It wasn't my favorite but many love it.