June 18, 2018 REFLECTIONS!! The Builders Group (aka Elite Eleven) has been back in Minnesota and Arizona for a couple of weeks. We so easily fall back into our routines and yet, we are all changed, even a little, as a result of our 11 days with our Slovak...
Dear Friends, It’s hard to believe that in a month we will be finishing our 15th school year at the Lutheran Academy in Martin, Slovakia (LAMS). These next few weeks will be quite intense as we prepare for our Big Event, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Bible School and our...
30 May 2018 We’re Off to Lisbon! Today we said our goodbyes to our Slovak friends, but before we left we added our names to the Donor Tree in the High School, which has a ‘leaf’ of a tree for people who have contributed in some way to the renovation and support of the school...
Tuesday, 29 May 2018 CHRISTMAS comes to Slovakia in May! It has been raining off and on the past day. The temperature last evening was perfect for us Minnesotans who like our rooms ‘chilled’ for sleeping. We now come to our last night in Martin which is often...
Monday 28 May, 2018 MORE PROJECTS!!! We all were quite tired last evening after hiking 6 miles to/from Šutovo Falls and then having a party to celebrate the Bible School windows project being completed! We all retired to our rooms by 9pm. And, this...
SUNDAY 27 May 2018 BEAUTIFUL NEW DAY! How does one describe the beauty of a Sunday morning in Martin…. With mountains covered with spring green trees, lush flowers of every color, fresh cool morning air, birds singing their joyful songs, the smell of a fresh...
26 May 2018 NO, MORE WINDOWS? Or “NO MORE WINDOWS!” The day started with breakfast delayed till 9am unbeknownst to us who tho’t breakfast was be 7:30am. In true Builders Group form, we just went to the School to restart our window project...
25 May 2018 A GEM of Slovakia Today was our day to see the countryside of Slovakia. We boarded a bus at 8:30am and rode to Banská Štiavnica, about a 2 hour drive...
TIME OFF for work well done! It was another beauty of a day for working outside. We continued our window painting project which has become a challenge to manage what ‘phase’ each window might be in….ready to sand, ready to paint, ready to glaze, ready to...
23 May, 2018 It’s all about the WINDOWS! Our departure from breakfast was a bit lazier than the past couple of days. We are beginning to get weary of ‘doing windows’. But, we do have another project that a few folks then got out of doing windows all day...