Lenka Schmidt – missionary, charity worker, motivational guide and lecturer of the “Relation with God” courses. She spent 10 years in Africa.
Lenka grew up in an unbelieving family. When her grandmother, whom everyone loved immensely, died, it seemed unacceptable to accept the fact that death meant the definitive end of human life. So she began to search herself and through reading, contacts with various believers she met on her journey, and especially thanks to her personal experience, she gradually learned about God and the immortal human soul. All this information fascinated and confused her at the same time, she did not know how to deal with many concepts, it was difficult for her to process it. Thanks to his experiences, he has an understanding for those who are going through something similar. He understands their distrust of the churches, the fear of big words and the whole system of “religion”. That is why it tries to offer answers to questions that it has previously dealt with through this website.
So, on the threshold of adulthood, Lenka believed and felt the need to devote her full-time time and energy to God and decided to become a missionary. In the end, this decision led her on a very remarkable life path. It gradually operated in Slovakia, in the countries of the former Yugoslavia and especially in a number of African countries, where it lived for over 10 years, the longest in the Congo. She helped in children’s homes, young camps just after the war in Bosnia, as a medical assistant in the African bush, participated in the collection and distribution of humanitarian aid, and lectured on the relationship with God and the practical application of the Bible at universities and wherever people were interested.
Along the way, she ‘found’ not only a number of friends, but also her husband and her adopted daughter, a Congolese baby, whom they named Anissa. She and her husband founded and still work for the charity company ADH, Aktive Direkt Hilfe/Active Direct Assistance (http://www.adh-congo.org/cs/), through which they built several schools and manage agricultural projects and the education of children and young people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
About what all these wonderful things have made possible, what they would not have had a chance to play without – that is, about the miracles of God’s love – Lenka talks about it with pleasure and convincingly. She would like these pages to become an invitation to experience similar miracles for all those who have not yet had the opportunity, happiness or courage to invite God’s love into their lives and let it do it…
Magdalena Brychcínová
You can find more about Lena and her and her husband’s work in Africa in the article here: https://w-p-schmidt.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/cesky-bratr-rozhovor-cb9-2022.pdf
Or in the book: ‘Change the world with love’ https://w-p-schmidt.com/cs/domu/
