Hangin' Out in Bar

Volkor & his wife who are the leaders of the OM team we stayed with. they've been in Bar, Montenegro for 3 years. their team is doing all sorts of outreaches there including programs with Roma kids and families, Islamic children, a handicap home and english and german language cafes. they all meet together on sundays in "the living room" cafe and have a simple church gathering. this is a view of the living room after the church meeting on sunday.

Daniel is a missionary from Serbia who has been in Montenegro for over 10 years. we spent most of our time at his house in Bar. when we arrived he was overwhelmingly friendly, showing us our sleeping space and pulling all sorts of things out of the fridge for us to eat. he definitely has the girt of hospitality!
Shin Gu & Rudolf were the other 2 guys staying in the house. Shin Gu is from Korea and Rudolf is from Germany. it was encouraging to see them all living together and working together with differences of opinion and different cultural backgrounds. they talked a lot about the importance of discussion which was refreshing because lots of times we as christians aren't willing to discuss differences.
this is a view from the porch of the house. beautiful!


here is the Promenade. on the left side of the palm trees is the sea. it was nice a breeze through here and during the hot parts of the day people would lay under the trees for shade. we had a few good naps under one of the flowering trees:)

Montenegro!

we made a trek to Montenegro around mid july and just git back last night. our trip turned out to be very different than we expected- and we evne went over with little expectations! it was a great trip though and it was fun to meet people from different places in the world and make new connections. a majority of out time we stayed with an OM team (they remind me of eauopean ywam) in a place on the coast called Bar. we stayed in the boys house and they were super hospitable and friendly. we stayed up late many nights talking with them on the porch. there is a serbian, a korean and a german living there. it was really neat to see them living communally and working together in ministry. it was refreshing to have conversations about the Lord and the Bible and not have it bee filled with american nationalism or republican agenda. it was so neat to meet believers from all over the world and feel that connection that the Spirit brings. we were also able to stay in Podgorica (which is where we originally were going to stay the whole time) with a missionary from serbia named Vladimir. he was super friendly and hospitable. his brother and his family were visiting at the time which was exciting because they had kids! a boy named marco and a cute little girl named martina. she's very artistic and creative and we had a blast playing together. i'm working on touching up my photos so i should have some up soon!