Laundry lines
On a walk through Bor I captured quite a few laundrylines. I promised to post it after I had finished my own pile of laundry. All I can say is, that it was a real battle against nature as the sun was out when I filled my line, but soon after it started pouring with…
Bor-Home: 7 highlights
“Do you never start the motor when you drive downhill?” I asked when we went down from the house in the mountains. “No, this is the way I have done it for years,” he replied. “I have a family at home waiting…would be nice if I could meet them, alive,” I thought. Happily, we arrived…
Bor, day 5: Into the Roma village (+photos)
Warm greetings from Bor and a good weekend.
Bor, day 4: Food from the mountain and a pancake recipe
Every day, a few of us go up the mountain to get our lunch. The tiny tractor comes down from higher up the mountain. The mother of Slobodan, one of our team leaders, is cooking for us this week. Most of the food is coming from her own garden and lovely local recipes: good, solid…
Bor, day 3: A tiny church under the ground and a story
The tiny church that we attended this Sunday is twelve years old. There are no “underground” situations here, and yet it still fits the images we have from that time during Communism. Being here in Bor gives us a kind of time-travel feeling. In the backyard of a lovely Roma pastor, around 50 people come…
Bor, day 2: Dreamjob
“You look like a real Bible smuggler, Jelle!” Nina said when he unpacked the books out of all corners of the car. He had spread them everywhere: under the chairs and in between our food and clothes just to please the border police. We do not live in communistic times anymore, but the shipping of…
Bor, day 1: Safely arrived
4 people, 1 car, 1 border, 480 km, 7 hours in the car, 62 Bibles Safely arrived! We saw the landscape changing; just after the white city of Belgrade, it is turning into more hills. A bit later, we see tiny farmlands: just a few goats or sheep and shepherds, a few square meters…
A Dazzling Day
We are halfway through a journey across Europe and planning to attend the International Teams Conference in Swabish Gmund. We picked up Judith at her camp in Severin na Kupi, stayed a few days at a camp side in Slovenia, and travelled on to the Netherlands for a funeral and a few other things; here…
A house burned down and a newborn
Roma life can be very tough. This is what Andrijana, the daughter of our Roma pastor, wrote three weeks ago: “Yesterday, my mom’s sister in Serbia lost her house in a fire. She has five children and the sixth needs to be born this month. So, they do not know where to live anymore, and…
Thanks to the Teacher(s)
We have a rather unusual schooling situation here. The education for our children has created the hardest bump on the road to making the decision to move to Osijek. But, as we look back on this last year, 2016- 2017 we see that something remarkable has unfolded. When I wrote a post about homeschooling fun…