For the fifth year in a row, we held Champs Camp at the Jarun Lake park in the southwestern part of Zagreb. Held from June 29-July 2, it was four days of Bible lessons, games, crafts, and great fun. This year we had 82 children registered for the camp, more than half of whom were […]

This year we added an additional week of Champs Camp, on the other side of the city, for the children in the neighborhoods (Maksimir) surrounding our church/institute building. This camp happened last week. As with the camp at Jarun Lake, this one was also sponsored by Biblijski institut, with a lot of help from church […]

So much was packed into my trip to Ukraine two weeks ago that just one post couldn’t cover it all. I actually arrived the day before the conference. I spent that night with friends Andrew and Jenny Kelly, north of Kiev, near the town of Ivankiv. Ivankiv town sign Andrew and I co-founded the Ukrainian […]

I went on a mission to Ukraine over last weekend, along with Mladen Dominić and Ivan Tešić. Back in February, my friend and former co-worker in Ukraine, Dema Grishchuk, came to visit us in Zagreb and invited Christians from Croatia to go to this conference in Kiev on May 1-3. They specifically wanted some from […]

We are a spiritual family that worships, praises and proclaims Christ, and by the grace and love of God builds up, serves and blesses people. For more than a year, since the death of our Croatian minister, Mladen Jovanović, the leadership of our congregation in Zagreb has been praying about and piecing together a new […]

  Last week found me again in Crikvenica on the coast, for our annual church spiritual renewal retreat. I helped lead worship and also helped lead the teen discussion group. We talked about the topics the teens wanted to discuss, along the line of what keeps people from believing in Jesus. We also took them […]

Last week I participated in the annual conference of the Council of Churches of Christ in Croatia. I attended, along with Vatroslav Župančić (our publications and church relations coordinator), representing Biblijski institut. The Institute is actually legally registered as part of the Council, so we went to give a report on our activities of the […]

Last weekend was one of those that was consumed by work. It started Friday morning with a summer camp meeting at the church in Varaždin (an hour’s drive north of Zagreb), with which our congregation in Zagreb frequently partners. A group of us from our two churches are planning a camp for our teens this […]

My class Over this last weekend I was in Split, teaching the 2nd half of my class (Introduction to Pedagogy / Teaching the Bible) with the students in our extension program there. I was also asked to preach at their church on Sunday. I had great hosts in one of the families from both the […]

About three weeks ago we had what was probably the biggest snowfall in the last two years. I was supposed to go to Split that weekend to teach the second half of my class with the students who are involved in our extension program in that city. Needless to say, I didn’t make it. The […]