Calm before the storm

Yesterday and today have been slightly less busy than our first weeks. This is good for us because the team from FBC Sherwood will arrive here Friday and we will be going going going once they get here, so the rest is good for us. That being said please pray for the team because they will hit the ground running.
Yesterday Daniel shared coffee with two of the three gypsy leaders/presidents to talk about and plan for the evangelistic meetings and drug seminar here in prokuplje. In the afternoon we travelled to leskovac to meet with selem. We needed to get a stamp on some papers that gives us permission to have evangelical services. Since Selem's church is registered with the government he has the stamp we needed.
Today started with the daily prayer meeting at the church, then lunch then we were able to pour into one youth. His name is David and today he turned 16 so we took him shopping and got him a new pair of shoes, shirt and shorts. His father is without a job, so he wouldn't have got anything of we hadn't taken him, and he only has a few shirts and two jeans and one pair of shoes that are falling apart. So we were glad to help him and he was very appreciative. He plans to go to bible school when he finishes school, and he is a real leader in the church so please pray for him as his parents are pressuring him to start working, and they do not see he value of school or bible school.
This evening we went to choir practice since we will sing with them for the evangelical services. Then we took the youth out for ice cream. It is fun to hang out with them and try to encourage them to be real disciples, but the language barrier is getting frustrating, because although we have a translator it is impossible to translate everything all the time. So please pray that God will give us the right words to say and that He will use what we say in His ways! And that we can learn more Serbian and they more English . Tomorrow we travel to Belgrade to meet with Samuilo who works with the international church in Belgrade. He will give us a tour of the medical community there. His wife is a physician and we are very excited about this since both myself and Caitlin will be working in medicine. I want to see what medical missions could look like and how I could be involved! Then Friday the team comes and we all get to serve together! Pray for them, for us, and for God to use the services we have in a huge way!!

Your brother in Christ,
Daniel