Sometimes my work is not so externally visible. I do a lot of “behind the scenes” organizing and planning, and then execution of different projects. Because of this I think sometimes my posts on this blog may not reflect a lot of “work” that is being done by me day to day. Just so there […]

Last Saturday our church leadership team, of which I am a part, along with our elders, started on a process of evaluating where we are as a congregation; as well as discerning our purpose, vision, and mission for the future. We expect this process to  play out over the next several weeks. We felt this […]

The week before last found us on the coast, in Crikvenica, for the annual spring retreat of the Churches of Christ in Croatia. We had churches from all over the country represented, as well as guests from Slovenia and Austria. We also had a contingent from a Church of God congregation in eastern Croatia. Our […]

Last Monday Mislav and I from Zagreb drove to Zlatoličje, Slovenia, where we met co-workers from a sister church in Varaždin, Croatia. We were all guests there for lunch in the home of Andrej and Nina Lovše. Andrej and Nina are graduates of Biblijski institut and are seeing success in their church plant that is […]

The weekend before last I traveled to Vukovar, in far eastern Croatia, to participate in the Valley of Blessings. Vukovar is on the border with Serbia and is the Croatian city that suffered probably the most damage during the war here in the early 90s. It still has a significant Serbian population and is still […]

I took a long walk this afternoon with my dog around the town where I live just west of the city of Zagreb. The town is called Sveta Nedelja. It is a pretty area of hills and vineyards and small villages. A number of people have a small weekend cottage (vikendica) out here where they […]

I spent last Sunday in the northern Croatian city of Varaždin, about an hour’s drive from Zagreb. I preached for the Church of Christ there and we had lunch together after the service. We brought several youth from our church in Zagreb, as well as from another church in Zagreb that participates with us in […]

Last weekend I attended a retreat of missionary men from all over Bosnia and Hercegovina. There was also myself from Croatia, as well as two from Montenegro. The retreat was held just outside Sarajevo at Jahorina, where the downhill skiing events were held in the 1984 Winter Olympics. We enjoyed a great weekend  of worship, […]

At this time of year in Croatia, I begin to long for the spring. The winters here are cold, wet, dark, and gray, and I admit that at times I have to fight off some depression at this time of year. Over the last week or so we have begun to see buds on the […]

Last Saturday, the Biblijski institut director, one of our professors, and I traveled to the Croatian coastal city of Split, for a meeting with the students who will take our extension class there this spring. It looks like we will have perhaps 8-10 students from 2-3 different churches in and around Split. The program will […]