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Warm greetings from Bor and a good weekend.

Every day, a few of us go up the mountain to get our lunch. The tiny tractor comes down from higher up the mountain. The mother of Slobodan, one of our team leaders, is cooking…

The tiny church that we attended this Sunday is twelve years old. There are no “underground” situations here, and yet it still fits the images we have from that time during Communism. Being here in…

“You look like a real Bible smuggler, Jelle!” Nina said when he unpacked the books out of all corners of the car. He had spread them everywhere: under the chairs and in between our food…

  4 people, 1 car, 1 border, 480 km, 7 hours in the car, 62 Bibles Safely arrived! We saw the landscape changing; just after the white city of Belgrade, it is turning into more…

“Can I join you?” Jenn asked as she dropped by at our little table in the corridor. “Of course!” I replied, wiping off the tears from my cheeks. “But, give me just one minute. I…

We are halfway through a journey across Europe and planning to attend the International Teams Conference in Swabish Gmund. We picked up Judith at her camp in Severin na Kupi, stayed a few days at…

Roma life can be very tough. This is what Andrijana, the daughter of our Roma pastor, wrote three weeks ago: “Yesterday, my mom’s sister in Serbia lost her house in a fire. She has five…

We have a rather unusual schooling situation here. The education for our children has created the hardest bump on the road to making the decision to move to Osijek. But, as we look back on…

16 years of marriage asks for a little bit of reflection. Here is something I read online: “Some of the sweetest connections I have ever seen have been extreme innies and extreme outies. They’re perfect…

“We do not have money, but we do have food”— is what our neighbor said. And, during the season, plenty of it. Our neighbor invited us over to see her parents’ land in Orahovica. It…