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The church in Bratislava has a new web page. The new web page is done in a blog style.

The primary reason why we changed our old, static web page for this new blog style webpage is that we want to show seekers that the church is active and alive.

So the main information that we present at the webpage is about our activities and upcoming events. Also we regularly add our sermons in the audio section.

Thanks goes to Rado and Lukas who did a great job in working on this project!

If you can read some Slovak, or at least can appreciate the new style and pictures, feel free to visit our new blog. We’re open for any ideas, good comments and suggestions.

As the new school year started at the end of the September, we have experienced also more visitors and students coming to our classes and activities. Most of them came through their friends they have in the church. It is very exciting that Christians in Bratislava love Jesus and His church so much that they desire their friends to join us in our adventurous life with Jesus!

Knowing Christ and walking with Him daily is truly adventurous! Listening to His words from the sermon on the mount and thinking about its radical application in life is breathtaking. Is this really what Jesus wants us and calls us to be in this culture of growing and life-taking materialism? Oh, yes it is! The good thing is, it can be not only breathtaking but also enjoyable in spite of the pain that often goes with it. We’ve learned this while listening to Jesus’ words in the “beatitudes” and discussing it at our Friday youth group in the last couple of weeks. The toughest of the “beatitudes” are still ahead of us, but many of us cannot wait till the coming Friday when we discuss our being ‘peacemakers’ and those ‘persecuted for the sake of righteousness.’

Seeing the brothers and sisters applying Jesus’ words by the power of His Spirit in their lives is even more enjoyable. Seeing others grow in Christ likeness increases our own desire to be more like Christ and vice versa. Serving is one of the areas where we tried and are still trying to increase our involvement. Many from the church are helping their own family members that are elderly. Some of those that don’t have these opportunities in their own homes increased their interest in the nursing home that has been visited a couple of times already (two Sundays ago some of us went there and had another singing concert for a good group of cheerful older ladies). One brother started visiting children diagnosed with cancer that are staying for their treatments in the hospital. All of these things make every one of us more and more aware of the many opportunities that we encounter on a daily basis while living around other people.

Above is the picture of our “singing group” after the last concert we had in the nursing home.

Above is another picture that will redirect you (after clicking on it) to our gallery. This set of pictures is from one of our more relaxed activities that was primarily relationship-building oriented. Some from our Friday youth group went to a nearby castle ruin, Devin. This wasn’t only a good opportunity to see some piece of our history, but also a good opportunity to talk and share our lives together. As Braňo was talking to Marina about the church and its purposes, one lady, a Castle guide, listened to the discussion. She started to ask us questions and got very interested about what we said about Jesus and His church. So the very next day - on Sunday, her husband came to our assembly and spent time with us in worship and discussion afterwards!

Thanks to our good Lord for these wonderful opportunities! May He bless us with more and more occasions to speak about Him and serve the people around us!