Last weekend I went to Graz, Austria (about 2 hours drive from Zagreb) to work with one of our Institute board members, Thomas Lang, on our distance learning program.  Thomas was born and raised in Graz and he and his wife work with a church there.  He and I have been researching six different technologies/methods for delivering classes remotely, for possible implementation in the next school year.  While I was in Graz, we worked to complete our comparison chart of the six technologies to present to our director and the board at large.  We got some good work done, and also had time for Thomas to show me around old town Graz, which was just fabulous.  I stayed for the weekend in the apartment above the recording studio where the Croatian radio Bible messages were recorded during communist times in the old Yugoslavia.  I remember hearing for years growing up about the Christian radio programs being recorded in that closet of a studio in Austria and then being broadcast into communist Yugoslavia.  It was a bit of a surreal feeling actually being in that little room.

With the Graz Church of Christ

With Thomas in front of the church building