Christmas 2020 will always be remembered as a special one. Alica spent the last 6 Christmases in America so this was her first one in Slovakia in a while. Josh spent the last couple of Christmases with different JV families all over Central and Eastern Europe. The Covid restrictions got tighter right before Christmas and […]

This month has been interesting for our youth group as it marks the first time in months that we could meet in person. This happened for one week and then the number of Covid cases rose again and the government locked down again. This one time meeting in person seemed to be so life giving […]

   Have you ever heard this phrase?  Man up!  Stop being a wimp, just be the tough guy.  Be a man like Bond, Rambo, Jason Bourne, or Clint Eastwood.  It seems, as men we hear this phrase a lot in our lives.  When we are told this, we have two general reactions.  I can’t do this, […]

This month we have continued our online youth meetings. We are ready to be back in person again, but are thankful that we can at least meet this way! With our leaders group we have been studying about our identity in Genesis and being made in the image of God. In our normal youth meetings […]

Alice’s mother (Mamka) returned this week after a year living in Australia helping Alice’s sister. It was a fun reunion to see her after a year and the house has been full of cheer and laughter. We were able to decorate for Christmas together and have been helping her find somewhere to live and work […]

Each Thanksgiving the Jv family gets together to celebrate together in the Czech Republic. Of course, with everything else this year, it was cancelled and we missed a great time with our brothers and sisters across JV. In Slovakia, we are even limited to 6 people max. Therefore we could not meet with many people […]

Last year, God blessed us with many generous wedding gifts.  We decided with our wedding gifts to finish the renovation of our flat (apartment) that Josh bought 4 years ago. He had done a lot of work on it himself, but we decided with the money we received to pay someone to finish the bathrooms […]

In October, we usually try to travel to the States as JV/Kompas to recruit interns and connect with our churches. This year, due to COVID, we were not able to do our tour in the same way as we usually do. As we prayed about this year, one of the main things that God kept […]

At the end of October, we had the privilege and joy to meet our nephew Zeke and spend time with our family in Fort Wayne. We have two nieces on Alica’s side of the family but Zeke is our first nephew and we were very excited to finally meet him. Zeke is almost 7 months […]

On Friday October 2, we had our very first youth group of the school week. At first, we thought we would have to do it on ZOOM, but then the slovak government updated the restrictions and we were able to meet in person which was really exciting. It was our first time together in quite […]