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ZZ/CHE volunteer Zoran and I were able to attend the first CHE International Conference in Europe (in Albania) this October. We were encouraged to see other teams, talk about new ideas and opportunities, and develop new relationships. We were also able to dream together about the future of ZZ/CHE Serbia, plan, and pray for the future.
All three CHE teams that exist in Serbia were able to share one stand, and ZZ was able to present.
I am doing better with my health. It took me a very long time (two months) to recover totally from this very complicated situation with my kidney-stones attack.
Thank you so much for your prayers! I needed them.
ZZ is already planning a summer camp for summer 2026, as a very large team is ready to come to Serbia. It is a team of eighteen people. This is going to be a largest team ever coming to us, and we are already in preparation for their arrival – organizing hotel, planning. . . .
On a sad/tragic note, one of our families in Donji Petrovci (the Roma village where we do most of our current ministry) lost their father and husband to suicide, leaving behind his wife and three children ages 12, 8, and 7. Relationships were not healthy in this family, but please pray for them, as they miss their dad.
Marija, our board member you were praying for, is still fighting against sarcoma that is now spread on some bones and gullet. Her lungs are now 30 percent metastasized instead of being covered 90 percent. She is a student and is working (making cinnamon rolls); her husband is working full time, and he is a student as well.
One more story is our former volunteer Marijana Kičinja, who already had three operations this year and just a few weeks ago she was been diagnosed with three tumors on her brain.
It is really hard to plan and do ministry when there is so much pain and hard diagnoses among people who are close to ZZ, so I have decided that I am going to serve them.
I took two days with Marijana, as she needed to go somewhere. We went to one of the mountains to have fellowship, pray together, and talk about her health issues as well for this new situation and diagnosis that she is facing now.
Our Christmas activities will start in January 2026, as Roma in Donji Petrovci are Orthodox, and they are celebrating Christmas in January (like most of Serbia, an Orthodox country). This time, we will try to include all of the kids as they are so happy to learn and represent. We will also have one volunteer who is coming from the USA to help us with this camp. With her, we will be talking and planning our ZZ activities when it comes to trauma, stress, and unhealthy environments, as she is a professional in this areas.
I need to say that our daughter got engaged in October! We are so happy for her!
