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 […]

I mentioned in my last post that I immediately became very busy upon arriving back in Croatia, after my extended time in the USA at the end of 2013. This was due mainly to preparations for our Jesus Conference, which we held on January 23-25. I was responsible for many of the logistical details of […]

I realized over the last weekend that I have not posted on here since October, after being in the USA with my family for three months at the end of 2013, around the time of my mother’s death. I guess I have been that distracted with the events of the last few months. I will […]

Beautiful Logarska Dolina (Logar Valley) On the way I arrived back in Texas on Tuesday of this week. I have come to spend several weeks with my family during what is most likely the last few weeks or months of my mother’s life. It is both a sweet and sad time. I want to relate […]

Mladen and his wife Dragica Another recent event that has contributed to my feeling of this being a very surreal time was the death of our friend and brother, Mladen Jovanović. Mladen passed away suddenly at his home on Friday evening, September 6. His funeral was on Wednesday, September 11. Really all of last week […]