Dear sisters and brothers,
Last weekend we had a short, one-day trip with the two youth groups. One group are younger teenagers who are more or less regularly attending church services. The second group is for teenagers and young people who are not yet coming to the church services. This group is an excellent evangelization project in two different ways. The first way is a direct evangelization of youths who are coming to the group. The second way is evangelization of those who are volunteering with technical things for this group. The great news is that we already can see blessings and we see that some of the volunteers are already coming to church services. Unfortunately, last week, families of the kids from that group started to object and to create problems. Please pray for protection for youths from this group and for wisdom and strength for leadership and volunteers.
Our prayer group gathering on Wednesdays is getting bigger and bigger in Tuzla and other parts of Bosnia. Also, there are more and more people from other countries who are joining in prayer for ministry in Bosnia, revival, ministries and missionaries from the whole world and for other needs. We are having a growing number of people who are letting us know that from 18:30 CET, they will pray with us from their homes or churches. We are thankful to God for this and it is an amazing blessing for all of us.
We still have church services that are going through most of the day. Now, one of the church services is for the kids’ group. An amazing thing is that we already have two mothers who are not from our church who are bringing their kids to this group. Both of them started to come to church services. So, kids are having a program in their room and then they come to the chapel and they have a special church service for them. After that, they continue their program in their room. While they have their own program in the kids' room, parents attend regular church services.
Our friends from the school for kids with special needs called us asking for help for families of kids in hard social-economic situations. Our church acted immediately and we are doing everything we can to help.
Every day when we have church services, one church service is in English for migrants living in our house for refugees. One of them is a Pakistani pastor, and we hope that in the future he will start ministry to Pakistani migrants passing through our town. Please pray for this.
This coming weekend, we will visit Sarajevo and Zenica. Corona restrictions are difficult for our church in Sarajevo, and we are planning to have the biggest number of church services so far. Also, we are planning to visit a refugee camp in Sarajevo and to have one meeting. The next day, we will go back to Tuzla through Zenica and gather with our group there. We are planning to speak with kids and youths from Zenica about their visit to youth groups in Tuzla.
One of the people who was helping us a lot to open doors in the Tuzla orphanage died a few days ago. It will make our contact with kids in the orphanage even more complicated.
We finished one more “generation” of theology students and, after today, we will have “open” theology lectures for several months.
We have to decide about the date for another baptism service. We are thankful to God for this! We've never had baptism services so frequently before! It is a wonderful gift, and we are thankful to God on it!
Oh, there is more news, but the letter is already long… Please continue to keep us in your prayers and we are thankful to God to be united in prayers!
God bless you!
Lots of love and greetings,
Lela