Weekend in Bosnia

I spent last weekend with longtime friends, Max and Liz Crittenden (pictured above), at their home in Zenica, Bosnia and Hercegovina. Zenica is about a five hour drive southeast from Zagreb, in the very heart of Bosnia. Max and Liz have been missionaries there for about 14 years. I led a summer camp team to work with them back in 2000. That summer was one of the most exciting, challenging, and Spirit-led experiences of my missionary life. Ask me about that story sometime. We had a nice weekend, with great weather for a change, after a wet and cold spring so far. Even better was our fellowship and mutual encouragement of one another. That is so important for us all. It never escapes me the almost tangible change in feel, mood, and spirit when I cross the border into Bosnia. I took the photos below just across the border, in the northern part of Bosnia, which was hit hard during the war there in the early 1990s. Please pray for that country, for God’s Spirit and presence and peace, in the midst of spiritual darkness and ethnic tension and strife. Pray for the missionaries and native servants of Jesus there. Pray for their protection from the enemy of our souls, and that God will use them as the light and hope of Jesus in Bosnia.