Last Day

The last two days in Kosovo have blown by. Interviewing muslims who have confessed Christ as Savior is mind blowing because they loose their families. We've interterview Famir today who has led his whole family to the Lord, who's father is a former muslim priest. He is the pastor today in the Evangelical Messiah in Prishtine Kosovo. We head home tomorrow and have soo many stories and look forward to sharing them with all of you. We hope to change your hearts to try a mission trip, because we know it will change your whole view on how God works. Continue to pray for safe travel, but who cares about our luggage this time.

The team from Bitola is back! We spent our time there holding Bible studies, teaching English classes, and spending an enormous amount of time praying. The people of Bitola are awesome people. They are blessed with the presence of God and have blessed us while we were there. It is really too bad that we have to leave because the team feels like there is still much work that needs to be done. The great news is that another team is coming soon. They are a construction team from Georgia. There is so much work that has to be done in Bitola and the church needs your prayers. It is pretty amazing how God works because it involves TIME, TALENTS, and TREASURES. Yes, Stewardship!! Even in Macedonia in the town of Bitola there are needs that can be filled by the people of Westgate Chapel. First, pray that the Lord our God would bring lay people to the church in Bitola. They are in desperate need of people to voluteer and help with the overall needs of the church. God has planted those people, they just need to step-up to the plate. Those people are very talented and can do amazing things. The other is that they utilize their talents and put them to work. Financially, they have many needs that can be addressed from building completion to just regular every day needs. There is so much that we can do as a supporting church in Bitola that will bless the people of Macedonia. It is beyond your or my imagination. So ask God to look into your hearts to find out where you fit into the picture. The most important thing you can do is to pray for Bilijana and Josip. The team was blessed by the hearts of our host. They are very hard workers and their family life revolves around God and His church. They need our prayers! They were wonderful hosts and we are going to miss them very much.

In all, we experienced God in ways that you will have to ask us about. WE cannot wait to tell you. Thank you for being such a wonderful church family. Because of your love for God we were able to share what it means to be in community half way around the world with the people to of Bitola, Macedonia. We cannot wait to see all of you but most of all our loved ones.

Here is our schedule for the remainer of the trip: we are up at 4 am (that is 10 pm tonight for you) and the plane takes off at 6:30 am for Zurich (12:30 am your time). We arrive at 6:30 pm at Dtriot . pray for our travel but we don't care if our bags arrive with us this time.