Phil's Place: August 2008

End of Summer, Beginning of Fall...

Euro-Conference and more!
Each year, we get together with others serving in Europe and have a great time of worship, sharing, and teaching for a week. This is always a great time. And this year we were in Germany...my first time there! After that, our team spent an extra day in the area just enjoying spending time together - at LegoLand and a really cool castle!

Testimony Night

LegoLand

A not-so-crazy roller coaster

Castle Neuschwanstein, Germany
(Walt Disney took his idea for the Disney castle from this one!)

Me, with a nice German hat

Me, with a dark, forboding castle...or just stormclouds

Kids' Day!

One of our big events at Majak this summer was our Kids' Day. It's been awhile since we've had a time for the community to come and see what Majak is all about. We had lots of families come during the day and some good connections were made!

Camp!

We just finished with our English/Sports Camp and it was really a great time! In fact, of the 5 Czech camps that I've been a part of, I think there was more of an openness about spiritual things at this one than the others. Each day, I taught a beginner English class, did some fun/crazy team games (I can tell those good stories later), and I led worship for our evening rallies (when I had a voice to sing with!). I was also able to share my testimony with the group of over 80 campers and tell about God's leading in my life. It just seemed like there were so many who had some really good, spiritually-seeking questions. I'm looking forward to connecting with a lot of these campers in the next few weeks! Here are a few pictures I have, but there'll be more to come as I grab them from other people's cameras! :)