In the cafeteria in Slovakia (above), I met with the Christian students we focus the story on, left to right: Tomaš, Matej, me and Miška.

Slovakia remains my focus about one day a week. Our editor, Rachel, is helping me refine my story as I work to tell how God is at work through Cru’s evangelistic SpeakOut camps in fewer words. I can’t expect readers to want to know all I saw and heard.

As a high school student, I often padded my writing to make it longer. Now, I struggle to make it shorter. After we complete the story, we’ll work on secondary stories and a map.

As you pray for me to finish the Slovakia story, please also pray for Anne Marie. She’s  next up to travel to Eastern Europe.

She and her director have adjusted her workload so she can travel to Romania to get a story about Romani people coming to Christ through the JESUS film for Cru Storylines™. Now, she’s planning the story, then will work with a photographer to arrange travel, likely in late September.         

As always, we thank you for your partnership in the gospel as we share these great stories of God at work in people’s lives.

I interviewed Miška in a corner of the same room (bottom photo). Both photos are by Ted Wilcox, the photographer I traveled with during this trip.