This afternoon I broke out the kafe set, and decided to take my first try at Bosnian kafe…
I called my friend Mark… and the process has begun… the first cup wasn’t quite right, the second cup (which had set longer in the grounds) was better… I did discover the necessity of getting a little bit of grounds with the sip… ahhhhh… more posts I’m sure… click here to see the pix from the FEB07 trip.
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…but there was no time to post… and jet lag is certainly discombobulating (note the time of the post – and I’ve been at school for 45 min… ahhh jet lag)
Joanna got several job offers, we are so thankful to God for the choices she now has. We are asking HIM to guide her in her decision making process. There is one school that (with human eyes) looks perfert, but they are not sure they will need a new teacher, we pray for that door to be opened by the Lord or left closed.
I was blessed to connect with friends, ministry partners, former students and travel to and meet new ministry friends in Sarajevo, Bosnia CLICK FOR SOME PICS.
I was able to clarify major plans for the June trip to Budapest, Vac, Szeged and Vukovar with my ministry friends and partners.
BELOW, you will find some random pics in posts that I will date for the day of the pic and maybe some thoughts to go with them.
This morning I am reminded of how great it is to serve the LORD. In Central and Eastern Europe, here at Covenant, around C’ville… God is GOOD, all the time.
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On the wall of a building on a side street near the river is this marker… it states
“FROM THIS PLACE ON 28 JUNE 1914 GAVRILO PRINCIP ASSASSINATED THE HEIR TO THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN THRONE FRANZ FERDINAND AND HIS WIFE SOFIA”
An interesting historical spot to say the least…
Below you will see that outside the mosque that dominates the main street in the old town there are people begging… older women, younger women with babies and children…
a bit later, we were wandering the market street when I noticed Laci in front of a mobile phone store
… in this awesome stone building… I love the mixture of the old with the new…
In need of coffee, we went to a place that specialized in Turkish coffee… I, like Mark says over on his blog, have become a lover of this strong yet oddly smooth boiled coffee… now if one of my friends will tell me how to make it with my souviener coffee boiling set…
after coffee, we headed out to begin out trek back to Croatia… I spotted this scene of what is probably called New Sarajevo as we tried to find our way out of town…
Laci guided the Opel skilllfully through the streets and then we saw the sign showing the way to Tuzla and we KNEW we were on the right road… following the road signs… keeping an eye on the signposts is the way to keep on track… I think of Psalm 19… and I think of a great quote from C. S. Lewis… “Theology is like a map”
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The following pics come from our road trip today to Sarajevo, Bosnia
I was the map reader…
…leaving early gets you a beautiful sunrise…
arriving in Sarajevo, we began to see the beggars that we saw so many of during these two days…
In the old town we arrive in time for the call to prayer… 
we saw scores of men crowd in…
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these two movies were both war related (one from WWII and the other from WWI)… both told interesting stories…
ple” – one website says: “A WWII Drama about a German/Jewish industrialist who, in order to ensure his family’s safe passage out of Germany, is forced to hand over his business to the Nazis.” This is an accurate synopsis except they are trying to get out of HUNGARY not Germany. It is a fairly slow moving film about sacrifice… about terror… The thing that really struck me was the opening has film from the modern Auschwitz as one might see it should a visit (as I get to do, yet again, this summer)… I do recommend this, but be prepared, it is about dialogue, not action.
which takes place, as one web site describes it, in “France 1914. A moment of humanity that made history. “this website then says that “On Christmas Eve during world War I, the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace, so they bury their dead and play football.” what this fails to tell us is that this is a story of love for brother, brothers, and lover which is manifested at great risk to self and comrade. Further, one of the most important moments to me is the midnight Mass in the middle of the battlefield. This was as powerful to me as “The Pianist” though in a different manner. Be prepared to do a lot of reading; the French and Germans speak their native tongue and the viewer is left to the subtitles… The Scot’s accents are pretty thick as well, but the message of the film is truly worth the work.Filed under things Central European
next month I am heading to the heart land… and over on vonLazo’s blog there has been a conversation about my favorite place to start my day in the heart land… Z Nagy… here is a pic I stole from von Lazo…
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