Pozdrav draga braco i sestre! (Hello our dear brothers and sisters!)
I hope you are well and enjoy spending time with your families, and the best spent time is with family in fellowship with our Heavenly Father.
These days behind us brought us and happiness and sadness. As you know, Danijel is in Germany for a month now and we contact him ordinarily every two days on Skype and pray together. It is hard that they are not with us, but we are aware that they decided to go because of material situation, because when Danijel lost his job, he couldn’t pay for kindergarten for his daughters. The home church in the “pink house mahala”, we moved into house of Danijel’s brother. We have regular home meetings on Wednesday where there are included all through questions and thinking about text and those who know how to read in reading God’s word.
Bible study was in our apartment, It was arrange that all come there, because we have special speaker – Rodoljub Orescanin – Rodja. Those who were with us said it was wonderful fellowship, and some of them stayed even one hour after the meeting and talked and enjoyed. They want to be with us on our meetings in future also. We talked how we have to stay in Lord and we studied together John 15, connected with Him like vine and stem. This is what we plan to do in future, these things are good not only for us, leaders, but for other people too. We have regular visits to families which we know and slowly we start to tell them about God, and those families have heard already heard a lot about God, but they didn’t come to our church, but they also didn’t have anything against that we come to them and tell them about God. We pray that God works in their hearts and through this kind of evangelisation.
While we were in Obrenovac, we had birthday club. Elizabeta had birthday. It was so good and I was clown and I introduced birthday, and Danijela told them a mission story. While we were in club there were four more families and they all looked and listened. After the club we talked with them and we had opportunity to tell what and why we do that. Gospel is sown in new hearts and I was encouraged with Zoran and his family because they weren’t shy to say that we have meetings in his house and we talk about God, and that is wonderful what we do. We pray for their family.
Arandjelovac club with kids – Mission story of Emi Karamajkl, girl which prayed when she was three to have blue eyes like her mother, every morning she would look into the mirror to see if God heard her prayer, and then she heard voice: Is there no answer? Later she understood why she didn’t get blue eyes…it was important to teach the kids that God answer on our prayers with Yes, No and Wait. Everything comes when He wants.
We gave hats to children, and they liked it. Some kids came back to see if they can get one for their friends. Mums commented how they were nice and soft. Luka said: “That hat is so good and it looks good on me!” Thank you in the name of kids and parents for your work. In December and January we will give more hats.
Two days ago we went to buy some cable which we need to make internet in our apartment in Belgrade. We started to talk in shop about regular things with salesman and then we had opportunity to share Gospel for more than 15 minutes, we talked about everything from Gospel and I enjoyed to answer on every question that man asked us, and it was so sincere and from heart. I can’t describe his face full of happiness when he heard some answers from Bible. Question were like: What is with soul? What is exact date of Jesus birth? Repentance? Is i t important to pray only in church? How should I read Bible? Etc… We pray for more opportunities like this and for sharing happy news about salvation, we pray for this man and I believe we will need more cables in that shop.
Mladenovac we had great time, three meetings, extra. Danijela had appointment with woman, abortion with a view on Bible. Host of meeting was Rema and her duty was to call women and it was nice group of 6 women, four of them first time heard about Jesus. And even if they were mothers they didn’t know a lot about abortion, how much it hurts them and also how it hurts child which starts to live since the first day, and not after 4 months as they thought – when it starts to move in mother’s body. There was a lot of questions, we talked about creation of man and woman, about God’s commandment to make children and that God has a plan for each person, that He knows everything and we can’t hide anything from Him, etc. There was questions also: Why there are kids with special needs? Do small children go to Heaven? Etc.. We talked about sin and what kind of consequences it has on people, we read from Bible. Thanks to God for this opportunity to talk open about God with women who are mostly Muslim, and there were also some other women who would like to have at least once in a week studying about different subjects. Serbeza said, “Like this we have to meet and to learn something from each other, my doors are always open.” We pray that these women can understand message of Gospel and to accept Him in their hearts.
While Danijela had meeting with woman, I had meeting with teenagers, some of them were first time on our meeting, and we talked about the prodigal son. They had a lot of questions. We mentioned that God knows everything and He sees what we do even when we hide it, He knows us. I used magic book, and few tricks to make it more clear to them. While I was explaining tricks, I showed them that I am only a simple man, and God who is above everything is so powerful and you can imagine how much He knows about us. They were so enthusiastic. Some of them will be Danijela’s helpers which we want to learn to work with kids in Mladenovac, they are only 16 years old. We pray that people in this hard life circumstances ask for way out from God, to hear and to respond with faith!
Thank you for you prayers and support on our work in Serbia
~ Dragan & Danijela, Belgrade
