Day 3 Final Lenten Giving Challenge Update

Our final message during this giving challenge is from our family. We wanted to share something we have learned and value about Czech culture. Maybe it is something you can use to pray for the people here and for us. Enjoy:

Even though this is our final message (its late here), there is still time to give and help us get to the goal. Below is the challenge board and ways to give:

Ways to give:

1. Go to: https://stbs.breezechms.com/give/online and select “Give to Prague Mission (The Haydens)” and follow instructions. All donations are tax deductible.

2. Use PayPal (not tax deductible): https://www.paypal.me/annacarusohayden

3. Send a check to: St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, 4800 Belmont Park Terrace; Nashville, Tennessee 37215. Memo line: Josh and Anna Hayden

We wanted to leave you with a meditation from a Czech theologian that has really spoken to us this Lenten season:

"In confessing our sins and weaknesses we confront the person within us whom we would rather leave outside the church door --but it is that person who is truly invited to the feast. When you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind, that is what God does also: he does not invite the wealthy, just, and pious side of our being in its Sunday dress, the side that wants to reward God --or thinks it can. God invites what is blind, lame, weeping, poor, and hungry within us. Not in order to condemn this "less attractive" side of our being, but in order to feed and cheer it. The rabbi from Nazareth never failed to speak about it in his arguments with the Pharisees." - Tomáš Halík, From the Underground Church to Freedom

May we all bring our whole selves into Holy Week, to the Cross and the Easter celebration. Thank you for your prayers, support and generosity to us in our work and life here.