Pictured: Elizabeth helping with flyering houses in our neighborhood.
Most people live in complexes similar to the one seen in the top left.
Fellow laborers in Christ,
Settling in. As March begins, we are now past the 100 day mark since we have left the U.S. and I am quite happy to report to you that God has been very gracious to us. We have people speaking back to us in Czech in certain exchanges, which is encouraging. The kids have been doing quite well since they have started meeting with their tutor weekly for the past 7 weeks, and are having basic conversation with her. Please pray for their tutor, Michaela, that we would continue the have opportunities to share the Gospel with her. We are also grateful to have a handful of first time visitors in February. Some were co-workers of Bro. Vladimír, and one found the church from searching online. Please pray that God would work in their lives as the Gospel was preached during those services.
Easter outreach. Easter, much like Christmas, is simply another holiday here in the Czech Republic. There are a mixture of old Catholic and pagan traditions that go on. One of those traditions is that Czechs will bake lamb cakes by taking cake mix and put them in widely available lamb-shaped cake pans. Most people have no idea why. So, on March 25th, before the holiday starts and families start traveling, we will be having an outreach meeting titled Why Bake the Lamb? This will give us a great opportunity to share the Gospel. We are saturating the area around the church with fliers, distributing them at metro stations, as well as running online ads. Please pray God would bless this labor!
A well fought battle. In February we finally succumbed to the winter sickness we had been expecting in December and January. After dealing with whatever it is we caught, we finally seem to all be back to 100% after nearly two weeks of sickness. We are prayerfully staying healthy as we start to see more sunshine and less fog! We are thankful for all the prayers we have been receiving over these past 100 days; they have been heard.
Please continue to pray for us in these areas:
- That God would bless our labor and open doors
- Language learning
- Easter outreach
- Kid’s school
- Driving test (we will eventually be purchasing a vehicle)
Enabled by Him,
Ethan Azwar
Missionary to Czechia
"Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever."
Psalm 23:6