News from Montenegro

Dear friends in Christ, The summer is behind us! We are heading toward Christmas and New Year’s events… I would like to turn our sight to recent past and briefly update what was happening in second part of summer. Kids’ Camp In the beginning of month July,...

Setting Our Hearts — Fall 2014

Operation Mobilization missionary Andrea McCourtney writes of Running the Winning Race, the youth ministry in Podgorica, Montenegro: Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set...

Heart Full of Praise

Varanger peninsula. A wild and beautiful place. In every valley, on every ridge, on every rock and small leaf – the signature of the Author. Eighty five kilometers (53 miles) in five days. Five days of continuous worship. True. Sincere. Not by schedule....

HFO – Summer News

Greetings to you our brothers and sisters, dear friends in Jesus Christ. It is last month of summer and this summer is full of all sorts of answers to prayers. In our letters we were sharing some prayer requests. And we know that many of you are praying for our...

Sunbeams at Camp Gideon

A team from St. James UMC in Athens, GA is in Estonia, helping the staff of Sunbeam run a camp for children with disabilities. This is the first summer children from Sunbeam have been to Camp Gideon and the kids are loving it. Tomorrow some parents will also come to...

A Thin Place

A men’s conference in Norway with Yura Belonhozhkin — Jay Heck offers his reflections on the trip: I was skeptical when I heard we would be getting lessons in Arctic survival from a Lutheran priest. But there we were. Snow all around, with tundra sticking...

Sunbeam: Looking Ahead

This spring has flown by. We celebrated several children’s birthdays and in March we had trips to a farm and to a playground at Toila Spa. On 1 June we celebrated our first year of work with children in Sunbeam. In April, the first large grant for child care...

. . . but here is a child to love

Greetings and Happy Summer! Andrei has his last faculty meeting here on Monday, and then we can officially say that it’s summer vacation. There are lots of budget cuts being made at the university, and though Andrei has “immunity” due to having a small child, he...

Please Pray

Tomorrow we will have action of evangelism with a Christian rehabilitation center called RETO. They printed a tract that we want to distribute to people of Podgorica tomorrow and try to find people that are open for the Gospel. if you need funds don’t wait no...