Our friend Slavka (pronounced “Slauka”) was a faithful member of Bratislava International Fellowship, even before we arrived in Slovakia. Like many professionals here, her work moved home when the pandemic came. After over a year of working from home, she chose to move back to her home town in the very east of Slovakia and work from there. We were sad to see her go, and we still miss her heart and her face every Sunday, but we understood the move when it happened, and understand even more now that the refugee crisis has come to the border (and interior) of Slovakia.
When we started being contacted for help by people moving to and through the Slovak border crossings, Slavka was the first person we thought of. Our thought was that even if not able to help herself, we believed she would be able to connect us to people who could. Help with picking people up at the border, finding short term housing at the border, providing clothes or food … whatever the need.
Well … Slavka has become our “Angel in the East”., taking matters into her own hands and running with every request until the needs are met. Who would have ever foreseen this bridge to the east forming and becoming a key element of our response to “at or near the the border” needs, when Slavka sensed the Lord moving her back to her hometown last year. Wow … God is good!
She shared the following testimony with us, and has given us permission to share it with you :
”Also, one more thing that i want to share with you both- in fact, its a testimony. Yesterday evening I prayed to the Lord asking for direction, cos we've got a lot going on here, many collections and a lot of people involved so I asked Lord which way to go and I asked Him to open the door for me so I can be of help/be at the right place in the midst of all the activity, and guess what happened? I received your message today and I feel so encouraged how Lord hears and answers our prayers that I need to share this with you. ❤ Lord is good and His will be done. And i want to encourage you that He is greatly using you for His glory as you both are His chosen vessels. Thank you for your obedience to His voice. May He continue to bless you.”