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Post #1 by Jesse Jorgensen
Thank you for all your support and prayers as you follow our trip through this blog! Our team is prepared and excited for the trip. We plan to post frequent updates throughout our time in Bosnia & Herzegovina so check back often and feel free to leave comments down below!
About the Trip:
The goals for our trip are to serve, partner, and learn.
Serve: We’ll have many opportunities to serve. We’ll get to visit 3 churches during our time and our team plans to be involved in preaching, helping to lead worship, and interacting with local believers getting to know them and encouraging one another. We’ll also teach 3 workshops for youth and young adults in town of Vareš. The workshops are: How to Deal With Anxiety, How to Get the Most Out Of Your Phone Camera, and How to Resolve Personal Conflict. These will be taught by Savanah, Robert, and Gwen, respectively. We’ll also be going along with our partners on home visits where we’ll get to meet locals and we pray we can share some of our stories and the light of Christ with them. At the end of the week, we are hosting an “American Picnic” for everyone we met and interacted with. Please pray for all of our interactions that we will have servant hearts and be a blessing to all.
Partner: East Hills has been partnered with the Alliance Team in Bosnia for something like 15 years. One of the most important things we can accomplish by sending short-term teams is to strengthen that partnership. As we spend time with our international workers, our team is eager to listen, encourage and support them in any way we can. The Alliance theme for missions this past year has been “Be Present”. We plan to be present with our global partners and on behalf of all of East Hills, we’ll build our friendship and support for them!
Learn: As we go, we realize that we have so much to learn. Going into a different culture is always educational and expands one’s understanding of the world. We plan to have our hands open to see what we can learn from the people in Bosnia & Herzegovina. I know that I am always impressed and inspired by the way believers there follow Jesus. We also know that God is going to grow us and work in our hearts through this experience. Our team is looking forward to how God will shape us to be more like him and give us more of his heart for the world through this trip.
Schedule:
We leave from the Seattle airport on Thursday evening, July 6th. We’ll have a 12-hour flight to Istanbul, a short layover, and then a couple-hour flight to Sarajevo. When we land we’ll have about an hour's drive out to Vares and then we will sleeeeeeeep. Pray that our travel goes well and that we adjust to the time change quickly!
Pray:
As I mentioned, we are grateful for your prayers and do ask that you would keep us covered in prayer as we go. We so appreciate the way that you all have given financially, how you provided medical supplies for us to give to our partners, and through your prayers! It truly is a team effort and you are involved in our going because of your sending. Stay tuned, we can’t wait to post more updates and bring you along with us through this blog!
