This week at Skalka we had a Christmas party for each of our classes, clubs and activities! It was quite a lot of celebration...(six parties for me this week, in all.) :)
Praise God that many of the students came to celebrate even though this is a busy time of year for everyone.
At each of the parties our church leader, Mark, came to play the guitar and lead carols in Czech and in English. It was a lovely time. The classroom was decorated with a pointsettia theme and we lit candles and an advent wreath for the singing. What a delight to get to sing true songs about the birth of our Lord Jesus together with the students!
Everyone was invited to bring "vanocni susenky" (Christmas sweets) to share. There were sooo many cookies! People take their Christmas cookie baking very seriously here it seems. There were so many varieties. It seemed that each family made at least three or four different kinds of cookies...some made more than seven. Wow.
I enjoyed sharing some of my favorite "traditional American sweets" with the students as well (including Mexican Wedding Cakes/Russian tea cakes)
The best part was that at each of the parties the students who were there got to hear the Christmas story from the Bible! Yay!
Oh, let us pray that the truth of these words that they heard would really touch their hearts. Please pray with me that Christmas would be more than a time to clean house, eat carp fish, make potato salad, see family members and sing carols...those things are nice, but JESUS IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON! Please pray with me that as the students reflect on the meaning of the songs that they sing and the scripture readings that they heard that their hearts would be opened to see their need to accept the Lord Jesus as their true SAVIOR! Thank you. :)
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