Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Serbia Conference/ Youth Camps

1) International coordinator of Emmaus Correspondence School, Jim Fleming from USA is on his tour through South-East Europe. Lord willing, he is going  with his wife Sharon and daughter Christina to visit Serbia this weekend. For this reason there is  planed a small regional conference in Backi Petrovac assembly and  expect some 120 believers to attend this conference. On Sunday, 24th. June Jim is going to preach on following topic:

The Perfect Match for God’s Work:
1. “Hear I am!” My response when God calls.
2. “I am with you.” God’s promise if I respond
Please, do pray for Lord´s blessing during this meeting.
Summer time is very busy at camp site Bethel located in a mountain range Fruska Gora, close to city of Novi Sad in Serbia.
 With a joy !! to  say that all 5 camps are fully booked and nearly 200 children will have opportunity to spend 6 days listening God´s word, singing prises and enjoying fellowship. Mostly of these children come from non believers families
First camp start on next Sunday (24th. June) and the last, organised by Bethel Team finishes on 28th. of June. The other five weeks Bethel Team will host different Christian groups who regularly use the advantage of our camp site. They expect that all together some 400 children and young people will participate one week Christian camp at Bethel. Praise the Lord for this opportunity to serve with Gospel to many children at this time, when it is more and more difficult to share the Gospel in our country.
This news was sent from Vladimer Majersky who serves The Lord with his wife Anna in Serbia

Prayer requests from Jan and Ethan Schrader


Ethan and Jan are at camp now helping to prepare for the kids coming Wednesday.  The police in Nish have set up an interview for them tomorrow to see if they can get a visa. Also Child Evangelism Fellowship (Serbia) with whom they work and who run the camps don't have enough financial support for the camps yet...and they start Wednesday :) So, they are standing in the need of prayer...

1. Pray for the teachers and volunteers to rely on God and His Holy Spirit power at all times, preparing for camp, speaking with kids, sharing God's love with all they meet.
2. Pray Ethan Jan will have a successful interview tomorrow without any real problems and we will receive our visa as a result of the interview.
3. Pray CEF(Serbia) will receive donations for camp so they can buy food, pay for the campers (most can't actually afford to pay their own way), and have the funds needed to complete the tasks needed.
4. Pray God will be glorified this summer in amazing ways. Each summer we see Satan attack, and then we see God glorified and His love change lives.
5. Pray for the campers' hearts to be prepared to hear the Good News.

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Outreach 2013 Shetland Islands


We are looking for workers to go to The Shetland Islands in June 2013 (DV) This is an outreach work for gospel. if anyone is interested please e mail the below address.


[metrust.eu@talktalk.net]

Thank you

Slovenia

Just to update on our brither Dr Jovan Stupar who had a very serious fall last year, we are delighted to say
Jovan and his wife Marta have been able to attend meeting for the past 2 Sundays. We praise God for this wonderful gift of healing and we ask for continued prayer for Jovan. Our brother was able to open the meeting in prayer! we rejoice with the Christians at Smartno in Slovenia.
Thoams and Deitberg hope to be visiting this area in the Summer we value your prayers for them as they leave on june 30th for Europe for meeting in various Assemblies.

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Serbia (Letter from Etan and Jan)

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
Camp
Leader(s)
June 20 - 26
1st Serbian Children
Darko & Lidija Adamek
June 27 - July 3
2nd Serbian Children
Darko & Lidija Adamek
July 4 - 10
Roma Children
Dragan & Daniela Stanojlovic
July 11 - 17
Roma Teenagers
Dragan & Daniela Stanojlovic
July 18 - 24
Serbian Youth (16-20s)
Darko Srnka
August 1 - 7
Serbian Teenagers
Darko Srnka
August 8 - 14
Slovakian Teenagers
Katarina Hric
August 22 - 28
Hungarian Teenagers
Šamuel & Renata Halasz

Assemblies in Serbia


Listed below are the Assemblies in Serbia.

1) Backi Petrovac
2) Novi Sad
3) Kisac
4) Kulpin
5) Subotica & Kanjiza
6) Stara Pazova
7) Kovacica
8) Padina
9) Jabuka
10) Sremska Mitrovica

Please pray for these Assemblies.
11) Beograd


We continue to pray for Vladimer and Anna Majersky, who serve The Lord in Serbia. I had the privilage of visiting Vladimer and Anna last year so am adding new news from Serbia and ask for your continued prayers for the allThe Lords people who serve in this land.

Vladimer plans to in the Summer and September  to continue with the work among young people both with CEF and Bethel. We value your prayers..
 

News from Croatia

Hi, everyone
Updating news from Croatia. I received this from Damir Strbad and thought it most wonderful. This brother
is assembly based in Rijeka.
He has just finished a web page for Croatia below is the link if you wish to view.

www.my-holiday.com.hr

Enjoy
Rosemary