Thursday, 31 July 2008

Kosova last days.....

Hello everyone,
Our time here is getting to an end. I'm sad allready. Most of the team will leave tomorrow. Joelle and I will be staying for the weekend and daniella will stay for 4 weeks more. It is very hot here now. A lot different than last week. The Lord has blessed us in so many ways. We had a great time with 25 villagers from Qyshk and tuesday we had a very succesfull BBQ with the villagers fronm Qyshk and the Roma community together. God is really healing relationships there. The relationship between the ECM-workers and the villagers has also been strengthened because of the time spend up the camp in the mountain. Thank God for that.It rained a lot, so we played a lot of board games and got to know each other better. Some of the teenage girls speak english, so that made communication al lot easier. Thanks for all your prayers. Sorry we couldn't find that much time to write on our blog. Things are good but there is still a lot to pray for. Pray for the young christians in this country. Pray that they will persevere and stay close to God and that tGod will give them christian friends and mentors. pray for the ECM-workers in Peja: Gani and Adile and their children, Primrose and Dan, Thera. Thank God for all that they do here. Today we went to pre-school. It is good to see the children blossom as they are there. They learn how to play and how to just be children. Their home-situations are not the best ones. Pray for these young children, pray that God keeps them save and cares for these boys and their family.
In the previous week we were invited to the wedding of Diamants sister. Diamant is one of our great helpers, who help with translating. It was an experience to witness a wedding in a different culture. Unfortunately we couldn't stay long enough to see his sister coming out. But it was a good time.
Thank God that most of us were in good health. Joalle has been feeling sick for a few days, but she feels so much better now. Thank God. I had some backpain. But that is gone now too.
Sunday was a special service in church. Ricardo, a spanish minister, gave a sermon on forgiveness. It was translated in english and then in ALbanian. it took some time, but it was definetely worth the wait. It was a great message about that forgiveness is a choice, not a feeling. it left us all with lots to think and talk about. It is great to be in a church with so many different nationalities and be one in Jesus Christ. Pray for the local church here in Peja. Pray that it may grow and that the churchmembers may build eachother up and show love to their neighbours.
There is so much more to tell, but there's no more time. i have to go....teem-meeting.
Big hug. Marjan

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