A Back-to-School Blessing

A tradition with our church in Zagreb is our back to school blessing for our kids and teens, on the Sunday before school starts. I led this yesterday, as I usually do. I preached about our young people as a vital and important part of our faith community, and their value to us and to […]

Keeping An End-of-Summer Tradition

In Croatia, school always starts after the first of September. This year it starts on Monday, September 7. So this week, as a “last summer hurrah” before schools starts, I took some of the boys on a two night camping trip. Our tradition the last few years has been for them to come and spend […]