Croatia Missions Trip 8/9

Wednesday, June 16, 2021

    Jason brought me the square to have breakfast with Micah before the group met. In the meantime, he, Pastor Jeff and Travis put John and Romans and invitations in mailboxes near the AirBnB since they had a 1 o'clock flight to catch.

    Brother Brad and Mrs Connie  picked Micah and I up in the square along with everyone else that needed a ride. This time, we met near as Catholic Church. Brother Johnny gave the devotional from Matthew 9 that it's Christ's harvest and not our harvest. He said that Jesus had compassion on the multitudes, but in His ministry, He sought out the individuals and we should do likewise. 

    I helped Brother Brad and Mrs Connie with putting invitations in apartment mailboxes until lunch time at a bakery. After lunch, Jason texted me that he had brought Pastor Jeff and Travis to the airport and that he was on his way to meet up with our group. I gave him  the bakery address where Brother Brad was parked while Mrs Connie, Charissa and I sent to six more apartment buildings. When we finished those, Jason and I went to help Micah's team with the apartment buildings they had remaining.

    Caleb was going to be spending the night with Alex, Micah and Lucas, so as it worked out the four of us rode with us back to our AirBnB so Jason and I could prepare for church and then we brought him and Micah back to their place to prepare for church. The boys apartment is near the church. Caleb had other dinner plans, but Micah, Charissa, Hannah, Jason and I met at Pizza Poma for dinner. Jason got spaghetti, I got a burger that came with half a plate of the most delicious fried onions. The three young people got a gyro not realizing how huge it was. None of them were able to finish it.

    At church, the five  of us that had dinner together stayed in the hallway because of social distancing. Brother Brad led the singing and preached. He also did a question and answer time since there was a good number of young people there as well as a number of people currently serving in ministry. He asked "How did you know that you were being called to ministry?" to get the ball rolling for others to ask questions. Jason answered that there was no escaping Hungary. He said that everything became about Hungary including simple things like pictures on the wall, where before he would not have even noticed them. Brother Brad's translator asked if anyone had ever knowingly disobeyed God and Jason answered that he had. During Bible College, his teacher who just returned from a trip to Hungary in 2010, invited all in class to go with him. Jason knew he should go on the next trip but didn't because of lack of finances. He didn't go until the following year, 2012 but it still hurt him knowing he should have gone in 2011.

    After question and answer time, we broke up into groups of three to pray for the meeting the following day.