Today I was in a school we were in three years ago. The teachers remembered us, but we could not remember the school, let alone the teachers. So many schools they all blend into one in my memory, most Eastern European schools look the same in my memory.
The children today were mainly Gypsy children, we saw them smile and laugh, not a common experience for them. Their homes are less than pleasant and home life for many of them is something most of us cannot even imagine. I saw these children experience real joy, as they watched our programs. I heard many pray with us at the end of several of the programs.
Four shows in total, one thing is really clear, it is nothing like Ukraine. The darkness of communism has lifted here. That evil has gone, the people are free and for a time this country is really open to the Gospel, in the way I have seen it in Ukraine at times. The darkness having returned in parts of Ukraine, is barely noticeable in Slovakia, it does not feel oppressive at.
The effects of parents bad choices or simple lack of choices is plain to see in the behaiour of children, and in their appearance. So how the children have responed to us has been prescious.
I saw some Gypsy homes in the countryside today, I do not know whether it is sad or shocking seeing homes like them in Europe, you cannot imagine what you are seeing really being in Europe.
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