See you later, see you soon

hello all,

I would like to start with an apology. We are sorry that we have not been blogging as often as promised. It has been a very busy 2 two weeks, and in our free time we have been recovering from the intensity of the schedule rather than blogging as we should have. We will try to do better in the future, and again we are sorry.

This past week has been very exciting and full of memories, and God. We started the week with English schools for the church members on Monday and Tuesday as Bethany talked in her last post. Wednesday we joined Boris at his flat for his weekly cell group. They meet every Wednesday and share what God has done that week, and also share in a time of bible study. We shared a few scriptures and our testimonies. We also listened to testimonies of Boris, and his fiance Jelena. They were both previous drug addict who were delivered by Jesus!! they shared that they tried many other ways, but Jesus was the only one who changed their lives, and they will never be the same!! Many of the young people in Serbia have problems with drugs and alcohol. Pray that through these multiple testimonies of Jesus' deliverance, that others could be led to Christ and be delivered from their situations.

We also spent Thursday evening in the church's prayer meeting. Ivan Nicolic gave a message about the love of God, and our response to Him. Do we treat Him as our Lord, or as a Slave? Pray for Ivan. His parents are deaf, and he is partially deaf in one ear. He knows sign language and translates the services for his parents. He wants to start a church for the deaf. He already leads the deaf bible study, but he wants to do more. Just pray that he will follow Christ in this situation, and that through it more people would come to Christ.

Friday we had our third day of classes for English which went well. The students are enjoying the classes, and learning, and we re enjoying teaching. Because of these things, the classes are a success. Kristina (a sister from the church) invited us to belgrade the nation's capital on saturday and sunday. We went via train, which was a fun and new experience for each of us. We arrived in Belgrade at 11 a.m. and had to leave at 4 go to Poncovo where we would meet with the youth in the church their. In belgrade we tried to ride an open air tourist bus, but after three passed without stopping at the station, we gave up. At this point Kristina left us to meet her friend Biljana, so there we were, just the three of us alone in a new place and we know ten Serbian words.. haha. It was fun though. We took a cab to the fortress and hung out there for a while, just walking around the huge fort and looking in amazement. Then Kristian and Biljana met back up with us and we visited a zoo that was in the fort which was pretty neat. Caitlin even fed an elephant smoki (Serbian chips)!!! it was very funny and even better we got it on video! After this we began our travels to ponchovo via bus, and then a van. We made it, and ate lunch with the youth leader at her house where we would also stay the night. She was very nice, and her love of Christ was evident as well as her passion for the lost youth in her area, and the world. We shared testimoines with the youth (shown in the photo above), and a few songs of worship, and then listened to what God was doing in their lives. It was an encouragement to us and to them, to see how we are reaching people for christ on our campus, and for us to hear how they are, it was a very good time. Pray for them that others won't see them as freaks, or some type of cult, but that people would see Christ in them.

We came back to Novi Sad sunday morning. We came directly to Kristina and Silvia's parents home for lunch. We were very tired at this point, and food of any kind sounded good. We were excited to find out that we were eating fish soup! We had really enjoyed our last time eating fish soup with rodja, but this time was a little different. The pot was placed in front of us, and four fish heads bobbed on top to greet us. That was a bit of a shocker. Making eye to eye contact with the food i was about to eat, it was a little weird so say the least. But, all joking aside it tasted very good, as long as you didnt swallow one of the thousand tiny bones in the soup!! After our visit we went back to our home for a much needed nap before church. Church was really good, the worship was good, and the message was in english!! A Canadian Evangelist preached and it was...interesting.. mostly good, but a few strange ideas.

Thanks for all the support so far, and please continue to pray that we would follow Christ in everything we do here, and that through that He would be glorified! Next update soon!!

Daniel