here we are at the Evangilical church. We have met Pastor Bernard and a family from England named Allie, Mick, and their daughter is Sam. That family helped to start Novi Most, which is a ministry down the street for children. They have Serbs, Croats, and and Bosnians come to the ministry. We actually ran into a little trouble with the bridge building, but they definitely have plenty of projects for us to keep up with. The bridge area is actually getting overrun on the sides and the government will be repairing the shoreline since it is washing away, so they say that we can not build the bridge. Projects that we may do are painting the rooms at Novi Most along with possibly building a wall there. We may also help out the community with small construction projects. .
Our luggage did get misplaced when we arrived in Dubrovnik, Croatia so we were a little concerned about that, but prepared ourselves to just re-wear our clothes for the week. However, we got news this morning that the luggage showed up and we should get it this afternoon.
The Croatian coast that we drove up to get to Capljina from Dubrovnik (it took about 2 hours) is beautiful! It is mountainous with many rocks and beautiful coastline. We are staying at a building that also has beautiful plants in the backyard where we ate breakfast this morning. There is a really cute puppy that lives close the the house too. We walked to the river quickly this morning and saw the beach where may locals hang out. Soon, we girls will be going to Novi Most and planning the paint job and other construction and the guys will go to pick up the baggage.
The church is really cool here and they have nice environments and do a Kidstuff-type environment that Ryan is now watching videos of with "NoNo." Nono picked us up from the airport yesterday and mostly speaks Bosnian.
Thanks for all of your prayers and support!
Erica
3 comments:
Glad to hear you guys made it safely. I think there is a rule that when you go on a Northpoint mission trip your luggage must be lost at some point. Everyone that I've talked to has had the same experience. I did last year when we went to Estonia on a mission trip. We had to wait 3 days to get our luggage back. Fortunately, you guys will not have to wait that long. We are praying for you guys and can't wait to see the pics and hear some stories!!
I'm from Kuala Lumpur Malaysia,I like to know about Bosnia,if U can exchane photo,share togather,O.k dear!thnks.
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I enjoy finding blogs like yours that show people serving the Lord in their own way. You two look very much in love with each other and with God and I am very happy for you. You are truly an inspiration to new Christians like myself. I pray that your efforts in Bosnia are very fruitful and that you come away from this experience with wonderful stories to tell that continue to spread the word of God.
Much love,
Mark
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