Cheon Il Guk Czech Republic Missionaries: The Mission Begins

Meet the team! From left to right: H. Kamata (1st year missionary), Cvetko Pejkovski (CARP Czech leader), M. Orikasa (team leader), R. Yonetani (3rd year missionary), Y. Su Hwang (1st year missionary).

Hello! This is Czech team reporting here!

This week, we said goodbye to Korea and to our GPA brothers and sisters. Our time together here in Korea has been a huge blessing and joy. We were all sad leaving after a couple of months together, but very excited and determined to finally go our mission country.

After a long 11 hour flight, we arrived in Prague where we were welcomed by our CARP Czech leader, Cvetko Pejkovski. We finally made it!

The first few days were spent settling into our new home and getting to know the country better. We

toured around a place called the Old Town Square. This part of Prague is very historic, with many buildings and castles made hundreds of years ago. We visited a gigantic castle that took more than 500 years to build! It felt like we were back in time in a different place. Just by walking around Prague, we could see how much culture this country holds.

The rest of the week was used to prepare for the next 4 months here in Czech through planning future events and creating a vision board of our goals. Our vision board is a reminder that we represent more than ourselves. As missionaries, we all took this oath pledging to do our utmost effort to serve and raise up this country of Czech.

We officially start our witnessing efforts this Monday! We are all so grateful to have this opportunity to experience what it means to be a missionary and determined to support the CARP here in Czech!