I just saw this today and I thought I would share it with you. I’m thankful for the organization I work for and our global impact. Thank you all for all your support to make a difference for the Kingdom!

I just wanted to wish you the happiest of Thanksgivings from Prague! While Czechs, don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, as it’s an American or Canadian holiday, that doesn’t stop us from sharing some “Thanksgiving Love” with out Czech friends! I recently uploaded a few pictures from our Thanksgiving party at the Sports University we work at here, click here to see all of them.

Here’s Micah and I getting our “pilgrim” and “indian” on! I know the first Thanksgiving was far more peaceful than this picture, but Micah and I like to have fun!

We had a “Thanksgiving Tree” at the party (by the way, the tree is my art work! ), where people wrote on leaves what they are thankful, it was moving to see what everyone was thankful for! I’m thankful for many things, but one of those things I’m thankful for are the wonderful ministry partners that long to see Czechs turn to God in thankfulness! Thank you for being you and supporting what God is doing here! HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

What are you thankful for on this Thanksgiving of 2011?

…being made in Prague! Here’s another video for you all!

Micah, our newest STINTer (intern), wanted to share a few words with my ministry partners and my future ministry partners about what WE do in Prague!

Micah was on a 4 week summer project in 2009, so it’s fun to hear him talk about the change between then and now within our team! It get’s me fired up! Things are happening! WE ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE!

Thank you Micah! Thank you to tall those ministry partners that partner with me to make this possible! Be a Revolution!

If you want to join my team of ministry partners click here or on the SUPPORT link in the toolbar. You can always go directly to Cru’s online giving site by clicking HERE!

THANK YOU MUCH FOR ALL YOU DO!

Today I’m speaking at Emmanuel Baptist Church and I thought it would be cool to share the words of my friend, and father to one of my players, Dan Hron about OUR influence in Prague! Thank you to each ministry partner who partners with me to make this influence and, Lord-willing, life change possible! For those of you that might be watching this and want to join my team of ministry partners, learn how by clicking HERE. BE A REVOLUTION!

Hey gang! Here’s the schedule of where I will be, when I will be there and so on… Will I see you? (click on the addresses for maps)

• July 30th, 2pm-5pm – Xenia – Tim Hortons, 38 North Orange St.

• August 4th, 4pm-7pm – Oshkosh – Starbucks, 240 W Murdock St.

• Aug. 6th, 2pm-5pm – Appleton – Starbucks, 4339 W Wisconsin Ave.

• August 7th, 3pm-5pm – Oshkosh – Open House at Smiths (email me for details)

• Aug. 10th, 4pm-7pm – Lake Geneva – Caribou, 883 Main St.

• Aug. 13th, 2pm-5pm – Delavan – Starbucks – 1741 E. Geneva St. Unit A

Beyond that here is the run down of the churches I’ll be at again.

• July 31st, Xenia – Emmanuel Baptist Church

• August 7th, Oshkosh – RiverVally Church

• August 14th, Elkhorn – Southern Lakes Evangelical Free Church

I do hope to see many of you and share about what God is doing here in Czech! If any of you are interested and/or able to host a support dessert I still have dates I could fill up. Thanks for all you do to make a difference in Prague, Czech and Europe!

zhtv 29 interviews from Zach Harrod on Vimeo.

Finally, after more than a year I have a new episode of zhtv up! Miracles of miracles! Enjoy this, the 29th, episode of zhtv. You will get a deeper glimpse of ministry, life and football here, even if the interviews are in Czech. Thanks for all you, my ministry partner, do to make a difference with me here in Prague, Czech & Europe! Be a revolution!

Will I get to see you this summer, while I’m on the “Coming to America Tour 2011?”

Here’s the dates and the locations of the churches I’ll be speaking at (click on the church name for their website).

• July 31st, Xenia – Emmanuel Baptist Church

• August 7th, Oshkosh – RiverVally Church

• August 14th, Elkhorn – Southern Lakes Evangelical Free Church

Beyond coming out and seeing me at the church gatherings, you can also see me at a local coffee shop in those three areas – Xenia, Oshkosh and Southern Wisconsin (Lake Geneva). Times and locations will come later here on zACHhARROD.coooooooom!

Beyond, that I’m needing to raise more support, as I said in the video, so if you can help me out by connecting me with more liking-minded people, who want to make a difference here in Prague, Czech Republic and Europe, that would be great. OR if you want to host a support party that would be even better! CLICK HERE and let me know!

Thank you and BE A REVOLUTION!

That’s right lives do get changed in Prague! Believe it or not! Our Dutch colleges (I love the Dutch!) came during March and shot some footage (with cameras I wish I had) for a couple of documentaries and promotion for their summer projects as well. Here is the latest one! It’s a great video, even if you don’t understand Dutch, because some of the interviews are in English! There is one interview you NEED to hear, Jarda. If you don’t want to watch the whole video (you’ll regret not watching it all) just start at 6:40.

As Jarda said in the video, it was AIA staff and STINTers (interns) that God used to impact his life! I love his story. I love his heart for his countrymen! I agree with Jarda that, “It’s quite difficult to change it [the unbelief and atheism of Czech], but we would like to try!” I will keep trying! Thanks for joining me in the adventure!

BTW you can watch the video with English, just use the cc-button in the YouTube-player.

This past Monday, I met with my director, and great friend, Billy, and in our two hours together a ministry leader, whom we both know, was brought up in conversation. I was surprised to hear that he is pastoring a church of over 4,000 and has written a book! I jokingly said, “Oh Billy we could write a book too!” He responded, “About what?” Then we went on to lay out a quick, rough table of contents for a book about faithfulness in ministry, when you don’t see results! We aren’t sure that people would be into a book on this topic, but it got us thinking, moreover, it really got me thinking about faithfulness.

First off, it got me thinking about how the world we live in, no matter what country we are in, doesn’t value faithfulness. How often do we hear the statistics about marital affairs and divorce? I can’t count the number of times I’ve read about this or heard it come from peoples’ mouths. Or how often do you see family quarrels break families up? How often do you see life-time friends end their friendship over something so trite? This isn’t even bringing up politicians or the business world! Simply put, we as a human race, aren’t a faithful people. Some of us might “get it” more than others, but I’ll be honest with you, on my “best day” of faithfulness, I’m surely still lacking!

Over the last year, I’ve wrestled with the lack of faithfulness of many. I’ve been shocked to see people turn their backs on longtime friends, simply for what was best for them. It’s wrecked me. As I’ve walked, or I should say crawled, through this time, I’ve grown to prize faithfulness more than ever before. I value it more in relationship, in ministry, and more. I long for my own heart to get, what it means to be faithful and that, Lord-willing, as God enables faithfulness in me, it would spread to those, He has placed around me.

I’ve been in Prague, long-term, for going on 4 years. I’m often praised for my faithfulness, as people hear how hard the language, how many Czechs say their atheists, how long it takes for them to respond to the Gospel and so on. As I hear this, a feeling of self-righteousness creeps up on me and I need to realize, that I am the most miserable of faithless people apart from my Savior. As I’ve contemplated, this conversation with Billy this week, a verse from 2 Timothy has been hanging around my head.

“If we are faithless, he remains faithful.” (2 Timothy 2:13)

I’m that faithless individual, but He is faithful! He remains faithful. Then the new Shawn McDonald album (Closer) came out on Tuesday and I’ve listened to this song on repeat.

Listen to the words… Let them kick around in your head a bit. Be thankful, that even though we are a faithless people, He is faithful!

A couple of months ago, we had our Area Staff Conference for all of Campus Crusade in Eastern Europe and Russia in Slovenia. It was encouraging to escape the gray winter of Prague for warmer temps and also a change of scenery (see pics), but it was more encouraging to see friends and also receive some encouragement from these same friends!

Over the last 16 months I have been though a roller coaster of heartbreak, failings, and more. Honestly, it’s felt like more than I can handle. Thankfully, God is big and has kept me standing and moving forward through it all, but in the midst of all of this I’ve learned that I need to preach the Gospel to myself. While, in Slovenia, I was once again challenged to preach to myself as I move through life and ministry in a hard place.

A friend of mine challenged me to preach three things to myself on a regular basis:

1. God is sovereign.
2. God is good, in the midst of it all. Even when it seems dark and that God isn’t in the midst of it all, preach to myself that God knows and He is still good. This sounds “Sunday schoolish,” but I do forget often that God is good. Thus the need to preach it to myself again and again.
3. God is my advocate, He is for me in all of life and in all of these events (think 1 John 1). Again maybe “Sunday schoolish,” but I can see a pattern in my life where I forget that God is for me, He is my advocate, even when the “wicked” prosper (Jeremiah 12:1 and Psalm 73, GOD IS STILL MY ADVOCATE!)

So how about you? What truths of God and the Gospel do you have to preach yourself? Use the comments and let’s start a discussion on this, I’m interested in hearing if this hits home with others and what you might add to the conversation!

Be a Revolution and Preach the Revolutionary Love of Jesus to yourself….!