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SINGING WITH THE GYPSIES.
Last Sunday afternoon, 10 of us went up to Usti Nad Ladem, in the Czech Republic. A girl who is part of our movement in Prague and involved in a community that is starting up there - new believers and some who were kicked out of fundie churches. When we got there, we saw that they were mostly Roma (gypsies). Very cool. The city of Usti became infamous a few years ago when they erected a large fence to divide off the Roma from the more elite area of Usti. Now we were in the Roma area, in someones apartment.
So this gypsy guy pulls out a guitar and says "I dont know any 'faith' songs", and starts to play the Stones song, "I cant get no satisfaction." Being a global song, and yet not a common worship hymn, we all sang along (in English and Czech) and soon the guitar was passed on and we sang all kinds of songs. We also talked about Jesus and how he hung out with the margin dwellers. I talked a bit on the tax-collectors and how the Kingdom shows up in ordinary places (homes, market place, on the way). Sasha, who heads up The Way in Prague, did most of the teaching and told them that they were are real church, even if the institutional folk dont see them as such. They were really excited, and people kept coming in to the apartment. After a while, one guy went out to buy some wine and bread for communion. We broke bread, lots of people cried, we hugged. It was great. I felt a bit like the Pentecost dudes going out to the smaller towns to bring the blessing out and connect it to what God was doing on the fringes. All very cool. Next month we do it again in the town of Brno, where some people also are starting an organic church and want to tie in with us. I LOVE THIS JOB!
Andrew Jones at 5:27 AM
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Saturday, April 20, 2002 |
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Thought for the day: Hey, now, you're a rock star. God thinks you're cool.
Have a great day and re:create yourself, your life and your context. I am shooting up to a city one hour north of Prague to meet with a group of young people that are starting an organic church like ours in Prague. Then its up to Dresden in Germany to see Karsten and his church Kraftwerks.
UPDATE: Germany was good. Over 200 young people, mostly alternative. Good hard-core worship in an old warehouse. he asked me to share some words from God - all I could think of on the spot was "Hey now, you're a rock star!" But I said that anyway, and I think God wanted them to know that they are the chosen ones for their city, they are the rock stars, and they should not be waiting for other stars to come to their city to do the work for them. The spotlight is on them. They need to "get their game on." Know-what-I-mean?
Andrew Jones at 11:28 PM
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Moving house today into the new place. Looking for boxes. Walking up and down stairs. Looking forward to sleeping in a new bedroom big enough to have our bed - the apartment we have been living in for the last 16 months is too small to have the whole bed in so we had to take off one side of it. Also, having 10 people live in a 3 bedroom apartment on the third floor has been a little squeezy and we are thankful to God for opening up the new place. Most exciting is the ability to have a training center - Suddenly Seminary - in which we can host people and offer wild and crazy learning parties, educational adventures and Training Freakends.
I was almost going to have breakfast with Jack Dennisen this morning in Budapest but decided to come to Hungary later. Jack wrote a great book called "City Reaching." He believes that church planting is not enough - the Kingdom must transform the cites on many different levels.
Wooooosh! Brand new blogger from Berlin. Kerstin is a crazy chick who was with me in Seattle last year and comes down to annoy us sometimes in Prague. She is one of God's favourite people in Berlin and for Berlin. Her blog is really raw but I am convinced it will be one that we all will be going back to with amazment. Kerstin looks like Pee-Wee Herman . Sorry, she just does. We love her very much. Meet her at 
"I feel so alive for the very first time/ And I think I can fly/
