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Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Jody arrived home safely at around 8:10 this evening. It’s been a long two weeks, but made all the more successful thanks to your faithfulness in prayer for the work in the Balkans. To say thank you seems too small a gesture, but it’s the best we can do. It’s good to have her safe [...]
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
(Thur. 7p PDX - Fri, 4am Skopje) Just got a note from Jody that she just cleared customs. She should be taking off for Vienna within the next few minutes as of this writing. Below is a composite of three emails over the last few hours. Apparently, Macedonia isn’t as concerned about second-hand smoke as [...]
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Jody has been enjoying her time in Skopje. The hospitality has been warm, the food has been good, even abundant, and she has had the chance to meet some new people who are likely to be friends and partners both now and in the future. I have been seeing Jody via Skype. It’s not the [...]
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Jody has been settled now in Skopje. She’s been staying with a missionary family there, but spending a lot of time with a couple named Sasha and Maria. I met them both via Skype and they are delightful. I wanted to exchange bible jokes with Sasha, but his were better than mine, so I just [...]
Sunday, October 18th, 2009
Jody as made the four hour journey back from Struga, the location of the prayer summit, and is now in Skopje. Here is her latest email.
(Sunday, October 18, 11:25am PDX - 8:25pm Skopje) I am now back in skopje and have returned to the home of the missionary family. They were running fevers last night [...]
Sunday, October 18th, 2009
(Sunday, Oct 18, 7:25am PDX) The summit is over in Struga and of this writing, Jody is on her way back to Skopje. It’s about a four hour trip through the mountains. The last session was good as the group wrapped up their time together. Jody was encouraged by the response. The rest of [...]
Saturday, October 17th, 2009
Jody is nearly through with the Macedonian Summit. They have been staying at a place called Majski Cvet in the city of Struga (the blue icon at the link shows the facility). She has been greatly encouraged by the response of the women there. In more than one of the places she has visited she [...]
Friday, October 16th, 2009
Jody traveled from Skopje this morning and is now at a place called Struga. It is located about hours SW of Skopje on the shores of Lake Ohrid and at the headwaters of the Black Drim River. Yeah, I know. Didn’t know such places existed, either. I’ve put a couple links in the right column [...]
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Just got this note from Jody:
(Thu. Oct 15, 2:21pm PDX - 11:21pm Skopje) I am in macedonia and staying tonight with an american missionary family from michigan. They are assembly of God and dad flew back to the states today to see older kids in college. Sasha and his wife picked me up at the [...]
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
(Wed. Oct 14th, 9:15pm PDX - Th 6:15am Croatia) At this writing Jody is on a bus with her new friend, Nevenka headed for Zagreb where she will spend some hours before catching a plane to Skopje, Macedonia. Please pray for her layover time there.
Her time in Osijek has been profitable, and to some extent [...]
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