I want to apologize to everyone for the delay in this post. Unfortunately, my trip was interrupted due to a medical emergency back home and this was the only blog post I was able to get written during the trip. So, let’s pretend we’ve jumped into the Tardis, traveled back in time to October 12, and you’re reading…
Posted in Sasa’s church in Kucura is this passage from Matthew 25:35-39 “For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me. I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison…
Sometimes I wonder how faithful I would be if I lived in northern Serbia and attended a small Roma church in Djordjevo. A woodstove warmed the room — a little (or a lot) too hot on the side facing the stove, a little (or a lot) too cold on the side facing the door. Would…
Friday was a travel day for us. We left Pirot early in the morning, drove to Nis, where we dropped Marijan and Slavica off at the bus station for their return trip to Prokuplje, then we headed north through Belgrade to Temerin. Here we will have four days ministry with Pastor Sasa, who is based…
Our morning started out with coffee (when in Serbia . . . ) and fellowship among the team members, including Marijan and Slavica from Prokuplje, and Ivan from Pirot. Breakfast was delicious Serbian pancakes (palacinka) and ham and eggs. Bacon looks a bit different here, but tastes delicious. Afterwards, we walked around the city center…
Wednesday in Serbia — busy day. We awoke in Prokuplje, had an early breakfast, and headed straight to the government center — think: city hall, but for a whole region of the country. There we met with Nebojsa Vukadinovic, the governor of the region in southern Serbia where Prokuplje is. He is an old friend.…
Since we went to the mahala last night in the dark, I really didn’t get to see the surroundings. I had a more eye-opening experience today as we went to a mahala in the daylight. My first impression was, the further you got out of town, the poorer the houses became. We were greeted by…
Today was a day filled with activity, meetings, and lots of laughter. We began with breakfast at Segafredo and then met with Caca to shop for hygiene supplies to take to the village later on. It was really great to be able to walk around the city and visit local shops. Then we went to…
We set out for Serbia in two groups — Teresa and LaJuana at 11:30 a.m. Friday morning, ReNata and Lorie at 7:05 Friday evening. In addition to our own luggage, we carried with us two large duffle bags full of knitted and crocheted caps and hand-sewn baby blankets for Roma children. We arrived in Belgrade,…
Psalms 127:3 Evo nasledstva od Gospoda: deca, porod je dar od Njega. If you can’t read Serbian, that translates to: Children are a gift from the LORD; they are a reward from him. Caps for Kids is one of the projects of Linking Partners Ministries. We have two different ways we use knitted and crocheted…