Camp, getting ready, etc.

I haven't blogged in forever because it's been real busy. That's good in some ways, but we feel like we have to weed out some less important things in order to find the most important things. We're preparing right now to leave for America. We'll be there 3 months. This is a good thing for the church here...even though it can be overwhelming for them also. It's good for the church to see that they can function without us. Regardless, we are trying to prepare the necessary people to take over different aspects of our ministry here. This along with preparing ourselves, our home, making plans while in the States, etc. is taking up lots of our time.

We also had our camp last weekend up in the mountains of Croatia about an hour away. The majority of the church went and we had a speaker from Karlovac (nearby the camp) come. She and her husband are the leaders of the prayer movement here in Croatia...so we talked about prayer and worship. It was good retreat. I wouldn't call it our best, but it was needed and useful. We really believe it was exactly what God wanted to do with the time. Here's a couple of pics below with captions explaining what's happening.

This is the about half of my worship team. There's 2 key people missing...my other guitar player (Ivan) and one of my main singers (Maja). From left to right in the picture are: Nerka, Juliana, James, and Damir.

Group pic!

This is Helena with some of our kids. Helena goes to a local church in Zagreb. We hired her to come work with our preschool kids. The group of kids here are a mix of preschool and school aged. From left to right: Addie, Bekah (our little girl), Andrej, Mihaela, Cameron, Ivor, Ian, and Helena.

This is Maja (who is the regular babysitter for our kids) working with the school aged kids...and Lizzie. Lizzie just happened to pop in on that picture. Maja did great with the kids and the kids loved her as well.