Day 1 in Croatia 2015 - Travel Here Was Awesome!

Hello Folks,

Today we embarked on our 10th year in coming to Croatia for summer mission and it feels like we are going home! And now we are here after a 14 hour trip, which was as perfect a trip as I have taken! Those who have been here before come back to catch back up with a piece of their heart they left behind the years before and for the new ones who have never been to watch their eyes get as big as earth in serving the people here is something spectacular to observe! This has been an adventurous road of following God and watching him open door after door of opportunity to share Christ in The Balkans and Eastern Europe. We are coming this year to expand the ministry further than it has ever gone before and are thrilled to a part of it. We often times say in the ministry, just hang on to the robe of Jesus and see where He take you!

This ministry has become much more than a summer short term mission trip to a foreign land for a couple of weeks out of the summer. It has grown into a Mission Learning Opportunity that embraces many outreach areas and occurs several times a year. We call it a Mission Learning Opportunity because it is teaching a lifestyle of serving and prayerfully taking that home to put into practice in your home, neighborhood and work place. This summer we have 24 people from the USA and have 15 coaches, players and missionaries from other countries meeting us at HiS HOUSE in Sisak Croatia. We left yesterday June 25^th and many of us will not return until July 17^th after serving in Croatia, Poland and Serbia! As I mentioned earlier this is our 10^th year to Croatia and our second year to both Poland and Serbia. What started out as a baseball camp ministry has grown to include football on the sports side of things and community outreach to Children’s library, orphanage, nursing home, rehab center and blind association. And this year will mark our 4^th year conducting the street reach Texas Carnival and our 2^nd time to be asked by the city to have it at the down town park in the middle of the city center.

Twelve of us from America arrived today the 26^th and we will have 12 more coming periodically throughout the next week along with the 15 from countries near and around Croatia, one as far as Siberia! The others include, Hungary, Ukraine, Poland and Servia as well as Austria! They come to learn and serve alongside us and then we equip them with the equipment necessary to accomplish the same thing back in their own home countries! Discipling Indigenous Disciples!

Please keep us in your prayers and know that we cherish those very much! We could not do what we do without your prayer support. We may have 24 with us, but we know we have thousands of prayer warriors lifting us up daily. We also appreciate all of your financial support which allows us to expand and do what God has called us to do. That is to love them where’re they are and love them till they ask why! And then share the love of Christ I will be sure to add many pictures of the ministry and of the new HiS HOUSE additions as well as the 12,350 pounds of sports equipment that arrived and was unloaded this past week prior to our arrival. Now it is going to take a massive effort to sort and separate into workable areas to fill orders from countries that have heard we have the resource to provide! I feel like we are soon going to be the HiS PRINT Sports Authority to Eastern Europe!

God is so good and we are so delighted and honored to be here serving Him and giving Him all the glory for allowing us to serve. Thank you for your prayers and know that Jesus loves you and so do I! Have a wonderful God filled day!

HE DID IT!

Let’s Do IT!
David