Montenegro
The Bay of Kotor, taken from above Risan. Truly the Black Mountains.
Here is the view looking over the Adriatic as we drove down the coast from the airport in Dubrovnik, Croatia to Zeta, Montenegro. What a wonderful world. Olga’s brother-in-law Zhelyan and his mother, Slavitsa, met me at the airport and got me safely home. Alla (Olga’s sister) and her son Andrei were here to welcome me. [...]
The mission organization I direct, Stoneworks International, recently created ministry profiles of our work. These include the work in Russia and Belarus. We’ll release profiles of our work in Estonia and Montenegro later. I thought followers of our blog might be interested to see them: click on the image to see the full-size file Stoneworks [...]
Here’s a picture of our campers and team at Black Lake, in the Durmitor National Parlk, near Zablak, Montenegro. Everything is going well.
A team from St. James United Methodist Church in Athens, GA arrived today. We drove over to Dubrovnik, Croatia to pick them up. We’ll be in Podgorica, Montenegro for a couple of days and then head up to the mountains to run a youth camp all next week. They are a great group and we’re [...]
Yesterday we went to the Adriatic coast for a baptism. Milanka has been a member of the church for a while and wanted to be baptized. Several of us went for the occasion and had a great time. Her story is below the picture and video– Posted a year and a half ago, by Vladimir [...]
We returned on Sunday to a beautiful St. Petersburg, Russia. The weather has been perfect, and it has been great to start reconnecting with family and friends after such a long stay in the US. Olga took the picture above, in the park across the street from our flat. We are thankful for the many [...]
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 [...]
Our visit to Montenegro was very good, and we already miss our family and friends there. We’re now in Budapest for a couple of days, visiting friends and a ministry here. Tomorrow morning we head north to Estonia for the Stoneworks retreat in Tallinn. On the way, we’ll stop and see Auschwitz in southern Poland. [...]
I went for a drive yesterday, in the mountains of Montenegro near the Adriatic coast. For the past few years I’ve noticed an old fortress on top of a mountain, overlooking the old town of Budva. I’ve wanted to see it, so I decided to stop and check it out. It’s off the main road, [...]
