We had a wonderful time walking around the pedestrian mall in downtown Belgrade this morning. Belgrade has 2 million people and only 600 Christians. Serbia has 8 million people. I wanted to walk around to see if we could talk to someone or pray for someone. I did not see one person with a wheelchair, anything broken, or anything that we could have remotely prayed to heal. All I was able to do was have a good cup of expresso.
Robert and I left Belgrade about 11:30 and drove with Joszef and Ildiko to Zrenjanin.
We met up with Jovica (Yoe-veet-sah) about 2:00PM and lunch with many men from the church. They were pouring concrete on the entry to the church. It is not a house church, but a congregational church. Jovica said that the way people are led to Christ is over a long period of time through friendship. The communities are very close in relationships that it takes a long time.
We went to a house group in a gypsy community. The community Taras (Teh-rash) was established in 1202. Honestly. A community of 1,200 people for 806 years.
The men of the home were fishing, so we met with their wives. Jovica shared with us about praying for their business and God blessed their trip last week with a huge catch. We prayed again for them last night.
Sonya is married to Mica (Mee-chah), Dot is married to Gale (Gall-ee), and Faith all greeted us at the door. Dot's husband Gale is Sonya's son. They have three children.
I shared with them a few of the testimonies of healing we have seen and the answered prayers in Steven and Nikki's life. They were very encouraged and asked us to pray for them.
They had many small things ailing them. We prayed for them and Dot was filled with the spirit. It was great. She said she felt something go through her body when we prayed for a hernia. She felt a little queazy.
Faith had a daughter that was going to have her eye operated on this morning. We went to Faith's home to pray for her. Jovica buys fresh milk from Faith. She has several cows. It tastes great. It is 100% milk. Wow!
This morning we drove to Tomas' home, a member of Jovica's church, to use his internet.
I don't know what we are doing today. We are probably going to a Bible study tonight, and we will continue to meet with people today.
I am unable to call on Skype, and probably won't be able to talk until Saturday from Joszef's home in Bekes.
BB
4 comments:
Hey, so glad to get up this morning to some news from Serbia! All is well here but we sure do miss you.
Ask Joszef and Ildiko how they stay looking so young!
haha,Sally is funny. What's their bible study like?
The Bible study in the home began with prayer at the kitchen table. Then Jovica share with them about what happened during the day.
Sonya the wife of the lead fisherman shared her testimony about the huge catch of fish that occurred after their prayer last week.
Robert shared with them what God was doing and a Scripture.
I followed Robert by reading Psalm 103. That God cares for them. I shared testimonies from our life group and people from our church. I shared about Aaron's accounting test, Steven's U.T. experience, John and Jonna Sosa's healing and several other practical testimonies to add to theirs.
Then I read to Matthew 10:7-8. I asked them if they wanted Robert and me to pray for them. They did. We did. God did great things.
BB
wow, cool, sounds like their bible study is nice too!
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