Dear Friends and Family,

The summer months are always the busiest and most challenging of the year for us and our ministry here in Olomouc, but they often include some of the most rewarding experiences.  This summer was especially packed full of planning and events for our youth ministry, and it proved to be another spectacular span from June to August. 

In the second of our newsletters covering the summer months (attached) you'll find out more about our two, Christian youth camps- the highlight of our evangelistic focus with youth at this time each year.  We had 72 individual students who participated in camps this year!  God blessed us immensely.  In fact, several students from our first camp week loved the experience and people there so much that they again traveled the three-hour, round-trip train ride and walked to the hotel in the rain just to attend one evening at the second camp and surprise and thank all of us who conducted their camp!  We were also blessed upon our return from camps to Olomouc to have 25 students join us for worship and to say goodbye to our American summer campaign group!  These are a couple of the many wonderful experiences we've had in the past several weeks; please see our newsletters for more.

We would like to send out a special thanks to those people who helped us organize and host the youth camps and other summer events!  We were joined this year by 12 Harding University (Searcy, Arkansas) students, two University of Central Arkansas (Conway, Arkansas) students, and a family to prepare and guide them.  We also had for two whole months the extraordinary help of our three summer interns- Alyssa Mock, Madison Swain and Nathan Dorris- from Harding University.  As well, we want to thank our mission team members and our local Czech and Slovak friends who put so much work and heart into this summer's activities.

And we also thank all of those who continue to support us in prayer and with your financial contributions, as well as those who made special donations toward this year's English Camp student scholarships!

To see many more photos from the two English Camps, please take a look at the following underlined gallery links for our camp for older students and our camp for younger students or our photo slideshow links. 

In just a week and a half, Sarah, Jakub and I will return to the U.S. for a two-month visit.  We hope to see many of you at some point during that time!

Thanks, and God bless,

Joshua, Sarah and Jakub Beall