The mission of the European Evangelical Accrediting Association (EEAA) is the accreditation of evangelical theological education in Europe. We at the Zagreb Bible Institute have been working for over a year now toward accreditation from this quality assurance organization. In late 2015, we became a member of EEAA, as well as a candidate for accreditation. In […]

  I looked at the blog today and I can hardly believe it has been almost two months since I wrote anything here. I have simply been working so much (10-12 hour days and many weekends) that I haven’t gotten to an update here. It has been a very busy fall. Most of my time […]

I am close to completing a project (actually the beginning of an ongoing project) we started in the spring. This year Biblijski institut was given three sets of high end video teleconferencing equipment. We are working on a permanent installation in our main classroom in Zagreb, and mobile installations in churches in the coastal city […]

Last Thursday and Friday we had an off-site retreat for all of the faculty and staff of Biblijski institut. We spent the two days getting back in touch with each other after the August break, as well as continuing our work on our self-evaluation report that is part of our documentation for our accreditation visit […]

August 9-16 found us once again on the Croatian island of Ugljan, for our annual family church camp at Činta. This was a very special time for me personally, as my cousin, Allen Ritchie, came to be our guest speaker for the camp! His theme was, “Turn and Come,” teaching out of the book of […]

On July 13-16 we held our second annual Christian youth camp for some of the teens from our churches, as well as other contacts. This year we were at the mountain house at Kalnik, between Zagreb and the northern Croatian city of Varaždin. This year I had a lot of help (actually she organized and […]

During June 13-16 we again held our annual Champs Camp outreach, for children 6-12 years old from neighborhoods in the city. This year we again had two different camps in different parts of the city, but this time we held them at the same time. We had a larger than usual group of American volunteers […]

  I am pursuing building a house in Croatia. It will look something like the photo above, except with a garage in a basement, instead of the ground floor as in this photo. This is a quite common house design here. This is another big project (although more personal) that I have been working on. In […]

In addition to my regular administrative duties at Biblijski institut, I am working on two important projects: The first is coordinating our 6th annual Champs Camps for neighborhood children, which will happen next month. We are planning for 130 children at both the Jarun Lake in southwest Zagreb, and also at our building in the […]

I have been leading a small group of youth and singles from our church this school year. We meet weekly as a group, to study something from the Bible and pray for each other. Today I had them out to my property for the afternoon and evening. We enjoyed a barbecue dinner together, a hike […]