Pray for the Balkans

Holy cow! Hello world! It's been a while. Good to see you all again! :)


Well - we've been rather busy lately (I mean I know I sure have).  So you may have known that whilst in Croatia we were working with the wonderful Uwe. And it was his vision to go around to each Balkan country's capitols, film it, interview the missionaries and church workers and people on the streets, and thence make a video to show the prayer needs of each country.   The intent is to show the videos next year at the Go 4 Jesus Conference next year.

The beginning of September was spent in preparation and studying for this journey.  The middle 10 days we were on the road filming.  Then the past week or so Rory and I have been editing, editing, and more editing! Uffta!!  Needless to say - we're glad it's behind us now.  But if the internet and my computer will cooperate.  I'd like to share some of the work we produced.   Enjoy and please let us know what you think of the videos (or if you'd like to see all the videos). Feel free to share the videos as well :)

Croatia!

Hello all. We just want to say thank you to all who have viewed our blog ,read our posts and prayed for us!

As you read in the previous blog we are now in the Spilt, Croatia. We are working a long side a missionary who goes by the name of Uwe who is from Germany. Uwe has a real heart for the Balkan Area. Uwe has a heart to see missionaries to go into these countries and to bring the light of Jesus with them.

So here is the plan of action for Transit Team 7 for the month of September: for the first 10 days Uwe has sent us a task of researching about 7 different countries, these include; Serbia , Slovenia , Montenegro , Bosnia , Croatia, Kosovo, Albania and Macedonia. We are also given the time and freedom whilst here in Croatia to get involved with other activities.  These activities include taking part in the church youth group, helping in the church service by having Mpumi preaching, Caitie and Taylah sharing their testimonies, and the whole team is performing a drama. 

After these 10 days, Uwe will take us in his van to travel around each of the Balkan countries listed above.  We'll be spending 1-2 days at each place working  along side people and taking videos/photos to show the needs of these people in each of these countries. When we all heard that this is what we will be doing - we got very excited! 

So the last two days we have been all sitting on laptops and iPads and researching about these countries. The information we gather is for Uwe to use and put it on the website he is currently creating. This will include the videos we plan to shoot and the photos we take. That's awesome and super exciting right?! 

Since Split is right beside the beach and it is warm here, when we have free time the team will spend time on the beach chilling and swimming. What more could you ask for in the month of September? We also have been having lots of fun with Uwe and his family. 

Transit travels

Travel, drive, drive, drive, travel, travel, drive.........repeat.

We are finally in Croatia after what feels like days in a van traveling.  Adventure, mishaps, and blessings follow us every step of the way.  Yes there have definitely been things that have tripped us up since traveling back from Sweden.  But we have also met some WONDERFUL people along the way to feed us and give us shelter the past few days.

Ok coming back from Sweden:
--The bus taking us to the airport nearly left JungEun and Mpumi behind as it started leaving before they got on.   Thankfully he stopped after I told they weren't on board yet!
--Getting on the plane, Mpumi and I had to go back THREE times to adjust the weight in our bags to meet weight limits (we were only allowed 10 kg.....22 lbs).
-- Transit team 6 (Sydney and Henrik) met us at the airport to give us our van and welcome us back to the UK (I love those guys)......AND gave our van a make-over.......we loved that.   Post-it notes covered the van.....about 400 balloons inside....and the best part....glitter in the vents.   Thank-you Team 6 :)
-- Driving back (in the midst of balloons and glitter) our GPS took us around in circles 3 times getting us back to Lifehope around 3:30 am.

That was an eventful day :)


We spent the next few days at Lifehope, a wonderful place called the Manna House, and a day sightseeing around LONDON!!!!  We then left dark and early Friday morning to start our journey to Croatia.  Big mishap of the trip? I left my passport behind. That added about 2+ hours on to our trip.  Wonderful.  However, having such a great team - they all forgave me and we continued on.

From here on we experienced huge blessings from people.  Friday night Mpumi called a family he knew lived around OM Germany to ask for dinner.   No one except Mpumi could do that.   We met the Brown family, (who we had previously met at Transform in Rome) missionaries from Australia with 2 young children.  They spoiled us.  They had a gourmet meal with candle light.  They told us later that they made the cheesecake yesterday without knowing who would eat it all.  God was at work providing for us, even if our meal was 1030 at night.



The next day, we were met by another wonderful family in Germany for a true German lunch of potatoes and sausage.   Saturday night and Sunday morning we met with Hannes, who has worked with OM for about a year and able to provide us with pizza dinner and a wonderful Austrian country breakfast.

We met with 3 great families but I know more people helped coordinate our sleeping quarters and food provisions.  So a big THANK-YOU to all of you who helped, God will bless you for all you have done :)