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Inside an old Lutheran church in the Tatra mountains of Slovakia
View of village from the balcony of my room in a Lutheran hostel where I and the elders of my church stayed during our brief trip to the mountains!
All of the churches we toured had a pulpit similar to the one I am “preaching” from here!
Little Bo Peep…sheep grazing in a pasture in the mountains of Slovakia!
Another old church in the Tatra mountains


LCMS WorldMissions Executive Director Rev. Bob Roegner, during his visit to Europe
(he’s also a former pastor from Westwood, NJ, and a golf buddy of my dad’s!)
The kvarta (8th grade) class I teach at my school
The General Bishop of all of Slovakia, Bishop Filo. I went with a group of Lutheran volunteer teachers at another school nearby on a retreat, where we met and talked with Bishop Filo
The Americans with Bishop Filo!


The view from the balcony of my flat in Bratislava-this is what the entire section of my town looks like
(not to worry, the rest of Bratislava is very pretty!)
Ah, peanut butter and jelly!!
My “dining room” table (I have no dining room) in my flat
The kitchen area of my flat (refrigerator on the left)
A delicious cookie my good friends, the Fabrici family, had made for me!
Another church in the Tatra mountains


A cross, created by illuminated windows in flats across the way from my balcony!
My tercia class (7th graders) I teach at school
Vanessa, in my kvarta class, hard at work on a CHALLENGING English assignment! (not really)
Dinner with other American volunteers in Petrzalka! They had me over and prepared an AWESOME meal…wonderful Christian fellowship!
One part of the building of my church
Fellow Central European missionaries Tara and Jenny (both stationed in towns in Hungary) at a restaurant in Sopron, Hungary
My good friend Tara! Both natives of the East Coast, we teamed up together at Concordia-Irvine, and now again in Central Europe! Praise God for her friendship and company!


The fire tower in Sopron, Hungary (one of my favorite European towns)
Shop Rite brand grocery items, found at a Tesco supermarket in Gyor, Hungary!! Crazy!
The front of my church in Bratislava-notice the block of flats right behind it (welcome to Petrzalka!)