Heavenly Hungary: Slovenia

This semester I went to Slovenia for my 10-day outreach. I would say that it is the most beautiful country I've ever been to with its hills, mountains, and woods, and I also admire their architecture. It's just all breath-taking.

Our team consisted of 11 people; 8 girls, 2 guys, and 1 child. The guys seemed to be able to remain their sanity, despite the fact that they were surrounded by girls and girl-talk for a week and a half.

We stayed at the church building of Calvary Chapel Celje. They had a kitchen and a bathroom, which obviously made things very convenient for us. We arranged schedules for showering so that we wouldn't run out of warm water, and everything went surprisingly smoothly.

Most of the time we were split in two or three groups doing different things each day. The most blessed experience for me was visiting the retirement home on Saturday. People from the church go there each week to sing to the people and to have a small Bible study. Even though I didn't know much Slovene, I was able to say simple things like "Hi. How are you? Good, thank you. What is your name? My name is Anna. I'm sorry, I don't understand." That was the conversation that was repeated over and over again, and I had a blast.

We also painted the church from the inside, which took a couple of days. The guys were doing gardening work outside, and at the end of the 10 days we went to the river and picked up a bunch of smooth, pretty rocks and did some landscaping outside the church. We also did children's ministry during church services, youth group on Saturday night, attended different home fellowships and Bible studies, and did street witnessing.