Greetings from Serbia!
Thank you for your continued prayers. Our transition from Macedonia to Serbia has been blessed, but we are still planning to go to Bitola sometime this summer for a baptism.
Our apartment in Niš and all the neighbors we have met so far are nice. We hope to finish painting the bedroom soon, so we can clear out the living room, in order to get living room furniture and start having friends and neighbors over.
We started our visa process. Supposedly, all we need is to wait for an interview sometime in the next month. The first visa is for a maximum of 6 months, and upon renewal we can receive year-long visas.
Thank you for praying for our friend, Darko Srnka. He had his hernia surgery without any problems, and the doctor pulled the stitches today. He’s able to move around fine, but he has to pack in order to move to a new house this weekend. There are plenty of guys coming Saturday to help so that he does not have to lift anything.
Our new position is a dual role of helping the Child Evangelism Fellowship - Serbia office and leading the local assembly of believers.
Concerning the first role, you will notice most of this month’s calendar concerns workers and events for the CEF work in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia. The director of CEF-Serbia, Darko Adamek, is also in charge of Montenegro and Bosnia—a big task with few workers. Ethan will be doing finances and both of us will be doing various support jobs. This summer, our main job will be camp facility directors. We are scheduled to be at all 8 camps this summer. We will be managing finances, supplies, and background stuff, so the teachers can focus on reaching the kids. It is similar to what we had been doing the past two summers, just broader. Please pray for the camps in Mrchajevci, and a godly influence on all the people we meet in town while running errands. (We also just found out we’ll be leading an hour and a half lesson on evolution versus creation for at least the first 2 kids camps- in Serbian!)
Our second role is currently limited. Our second day in Serbia, Sunday the 13th, Darko Adamek and Ethan split the Bible discussion, plus input from the others in the group. The next two Sundays, Ethan preached from the first chapter of Acts. Ethan is preaching in Serbian, but his language is limited. Pray for the Spirit to continue to help, and for both of us to improve rapidly. Last Saturday we also had our first class with four “new Christians” (some have been believers a year or two, others are newer). Ethan led the discussion with much assistance from Darko Srnka. The goal of this group is to cover basic Christianity for a good foundation, and hopefully all of them will be obedient in baptism and a healthy faith-led walk. One girl, Ana, and Darko’s friend, Milan, want to be baptized immediately, but the other two are between “someday” and “I don’t need it.” Unfortunately, due to some sort of flu, we have not been able to focus as much as we would have liked on moving and office work, nor have we been able to really begin cultivating new Serbian friendships.
In Christ,
Ethan & Jan
Please pray for planned outreaches for 2012'
as shown below.
Date
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Camp
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Leader(s)
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June 20 - 26
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1st Serbian Children
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Darko & Lidija Adamek
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June 27 - July 3
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2nd Serbian Children
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Darko & Lidija Adamek
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July 4 - 10
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Roma Children
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Dragan & Daniela Stanojlovic
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July 11 - 17
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Roma Teenagers
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Dragan & Daniela Stanojlovic
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July 18 - 24
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Serbian Youth (16-20s)
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Darko Srnka
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August 1 - 7
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Serbian Teenagers
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Darko Srnka
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August 8 - 14
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Slovakian Teenagers
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Katarina Hric
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August 22 - 28
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Hungarian Teenagers
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Šamuel & Renata Halasz
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