The Carpe Diem Story

This past month I had the chance to go back to Kosovo for a second trip.   I enjoy revisiting places because I love discovering the changes that happened since the last visit.   In Pristina, Kosovo lots of changes had transpired since my trip a year ago. When Surge International travels to Pristina, Kosovo we work in partnership with Calvary Chapel Pristina.   This new year, CC Pristina received the blessing of a new, larger and better building.   By moving to this new building, CC Pristina has a new community to reach in the city centre.   Our job during this week of outreach was to be the ice breaker and help get the Church plugged into the community. We ran a daily English Club for the neighbourhood kids followed by playing soccer.   Through this week of outreach I was reminded of my love of working with Kids.   In Vienna I am no longer working with Kids as much, so I got my “kid fix” in Kosovo.   Furthermore it was really encouragin...

This is a story that shows how God can use whatever he wants to spread HIS gospel... This last weekend I had the chance to go to Bratislava for a Bachelorette Party. We were spending one night there as a bridal party and were expecting to have a great time.   This story commences with us rushing to meet our 10pm reservations at a roof top bar in the city centre of Bratislava. One from the bridal party made the reservation the day before on-line. But once we got to the bar we found out that the reservation actually wasn't made and there was no more tables left on the roof that evening.   So the six of us went walking around Old Town Bratislava looking for a place to eat dinner and have some fun cocktails.   We tried a number of places but got the same response at all attempts: "Kitchen Closed"- not the words empty stomachs want to hear.   Eventually we walked past a Scottish Pub and went in asking if they were still serving food. We found out we had 20 ...