After Black Friday and Cyber Monday, it’s GIVING TUESDAY! How will you give today? Would you consider helping support my mission in Croatia? Or maybe you would like to help me complete my house construction fund. I am getting close to my goal. Only $6,000 left to raise. You can help put me over the […]

The last few weeks have been quite busy among the evangelical community in Zagreb. There have been several events, in churches and in public forums, surrounding the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in Europe. Everything culminated in an event that was held in the Croatian National Theater in October 31. All protestant […]

Welcome to my new ministry website! Setting up this site was my project this weekend. It was also a big learning experience for me. This website will take the place of my old Blogger blog, “Croatia Connection.” In fact, I have already re-directed the Blogger blog to this website. I have a little more work […]

As usual, this last summer was full of camps, with which I was involved; as leader, co-leader, and youth leader. In June, we marked the seventh year of our Champs Camp, a day camp for elementary school aged children. This camp is held at both our church/institute building, and at the large park at Jarun […]

The mission of the European Evangelical Accrediting Association (EEAA) is the accreditation of evangelical theological education in Europe. We at the Zagreb Bible Institute have been working for over a year now toward accreditation from this quality assurance organization. In late 2015, we became a member of EEAA, as well as a candidate for accreditation. In […]

  I looked at the blog today and I can hardly believe it has been almost two months since I wrote anything here. I have simply been working so much (10-12 hour days and many weekends) that I haven’t gotten to an update here. It has been a very busy fall. Most of my time […]

I am close to completing a project (actually the beginning of an ongoing project) we started in the spring. This year Biblijski institut was given three sets of high end video teleconferencing equipment. We are working on a permanent installation in our main classroom in Zagreb, and mobile installations in churches in the coastal city […]

Last Thursday and Friday we had an off-site retreat for all of the faculty and staff of Biblijski institut. We spent the two days getting back in touch with each other after the August break, as well as continuing our work on our self-evaluation report that is part of our documentation for our accreditation visit […]

August 9-16 found us once again on the Croatian island of Ugljan, for our annual family church camp at Činta. This was a very special time for me personally, as my cousin, Allen Ritchie, came to be our guest speaker for the camp! His theme was, “Turn and Come,” teaching out of the book of […]

On July 13-16 we held our second annual Christian youth camp for some of the teens from our churches, as well as other contacts. This year we were at the mountain house at Kalnik, between Zagreb and the northern Croatian city of Varaždin. This year I had a lot of help (actually she organized and […]