Christina Melton, a Stoneworks Missionary, drove with us from Montenegro to our staff retreat in Estonia.
Christina writes, “My goal is simply to be obedient to the Lord and wholly submitted to Him, and to do so with joy, and all this within the context of community. I cannot see how such a life would not bear fruit.
I only hope that I can live up to Galatians 2:20 — “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.”
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Around 6 AM on March 14, I hopped in the car with Mike and Olga and we started the drive from sunny Montenegro to cold, snowy Tallinn, Estonia.
In case you are not familiar with central Europe, take out a map.
Find Podgorica, Montenegro. Find Tallinn, Estonia. Yep, we drove that.
Rather, Mike drove, Olga navigated, and I mostly slept in the back seat and woke up occasionally to take some pictures.
Here a a few:
We stopped for a couple of days and spent some time with missionaries Jerry and Jan in Budapest, Hungary. Here we are sitting with Jerry and Jan and Juli, who works at the ministry center there, eating Chinese food (of all things!).
And this is one view of Budapest, split in half by the Danube.
After that, we left again at 6 AM and drove straight north. Central Slovakia looked something like the Sound of Music, except the buildings were too colorful.
We stopped in Poland at Auschwitz, and I think that is enough said.
After staying at a hotel in Poland, we finally finished the last leg of the drive and made it to Tallinn. The Bay of Finland was basically cold water covered with ice chunks.
We had our Stoneworks Retreat in a lovely house with a sauna! Here are the attendees, representing Russia, Belarus, and Montenegro. (We are very serious.)
Tallinn has a beautiful, well-preserved medieval town full of shops and cafes. Here we are trying to figure out where to go:
And this is old Tallinn, in front of new Tallinn…
I flew back to Podgorica on Tuesday (after connecting in Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Belgrade) just in time for sunny spring weather!
I will be purchasing knock-off brand sunglasses at the pijaca today. 
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