Report from Spring Retreat

Some of our preschool kids showing the poster board from their lesson on Sunday. The poster says in Croatian, "Jesus loves..." then they wrote names of their friends who need to know Jesus on the poster as a prayer. From left to right: Ian, Nia, Ema, Kaleb, Sara, and Ivan.

After each sermon we broke up into small groups for practical application and to pray for each other. A lot of great ministry happened in these groups!

Damir (one of the leaders of the church) with his friend/former employee/former drug addict Robi. Robi has recently starting attending church again and we praise God for that!

This is Dzevad (pronounced "Jay-vad") who is Nerka's brother. Nerka is one of our leaders - cell group intern and member of worship team. Dzevad has recently had a total life change thanks to Jesus. He and his girlfriend, Goga, came. It was a huge deal that they decided to come to the retreat!

Here's some of the group worshipping before hearing from Goran.

This year's retreat was a highlight for all of us! The theme was Freedom in Christ and we believe some people really began to find some new freedom which they haven't experienced before. We were actually over capacity at the house we rented. We had something like 35 people there total. We were really excited that 7 guests plus their children joined us this year. These were all people we've prayed for and are continuing to pray for as they're on their own journey towards Jesus. So, we'd say that overall the retreat was a HUGE success. We're looking forward to hearing more testimonies this week as to some specific things that went on in people's lives.

Thanks to all of you who prayed! I'll report more on this in an upcoming newsletter.