On my way to Bekes. On the Hungarian map the city of Bekes is written Pecs. Look on the southwest portion of the map.
Yesterday, Friday, Robert, Jovica, and I went to Novi Sad. It is a major college town. We walked through the campus, went to their major shopping mall, and sat in their coffee shop, equivalent to our Starbucks on campus. The only thing that was different was the language barrier.
Today Robert and I went downtown Zrenjanin in the morning. We had espresso from a local coffee shop and talked to Jovica. Do you notice a repeating theme? There are coffee shops up and down every major thoroughfare. It is amazing.
Jovica is an interesting person (picture below). He is very much a testimony to friendship evangelism. He makes friends with many people, and as soon as possible he will begin a Bible study in their home. He has Bible studies in many of the neighboring villages. He is awesome.
He is a very caring person, plus he loves God in a very genuine manner.
We had to leave Serbia today. We will minister in Joszef's church tomorrow and then early Monday we travel to Arad, Romania.
Jovica drove Robert and I to the Hungarian border, which took approximately 3-1/2 hours--in a Yugo. Yugos are a the product of the old Yugoslavian state. It is a very inexpensive and poorly built car, even Jovica makes fun of it and tells many jokes about them (picture below). Well we were thoroughly beat up by the time we arrived at the border.
Bob, Joszef's brother-in-law, took us into Bekes.
We arrived to find a tupperware full of danishes, two gelaton (sp) and fruit pies, and a coffee cake from Susan and Helen. Ildiko told me that my the ladies are making my favorite dinner for tomorrow. Joszef, Ildiko, Kinga (19) and Reka (17 on Monday) were very excited to see us and stayed up until 12:00AM talking to us. Robert went off to bed, while I went out to see Joszef's 16 foot wooden fishing boat he built from scratch and all by himself. It is beautiful and he did a masterful job.
Well it's about 12:34AM and I better go to bed. I have to talk in the church tomorrow morning. I will go to their early prayer meeting and then speak at 10:30AM. It will be great to see all of my old friends.
BB
3 comments:
That yugo car looks different, wondering what it drives like, haha. You and Jovica look like good brothers.
oh, and, God is really blessing you with coffees. ;)
That Yugo car makes your back hurt even on smooth streets. It is very slow because it has no power. We stayed behind a very slow truck on our way to the border. Jovica said, "I cannot not pass, You-go (Yugo), I cannot." Ha-ha. That was his joke, and it was true.
The coffee is great!
BB
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