Living Stones
( Church Planting In Croatia )

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Life is filled with extremes. Sitting down for hours with endless cups of coffee listening to a young woman who has been a heroin addict for ten years who is a part of our small Church; Then switching to go and share communion with an 80 year old woman who can not get to our meetings but radiates joy at being together for fellowship.

R. comes from a deep pit that she has lived in for 10 years. She came to us after professing Christ at a Christian drug rehab centre. Now the task is discipleship. Decisions are wonderful but that is all they are. It is now a long walk through pain and trouble with the scriptures bringing spiritual nourishment and moral correction.

Zdenka is a different story. A lonely widow who lives for the times of spiritual refreshing that come through Bible study and fellowship. I thought we were going to loose her just a few weeks ago as she was put into ICU after a heart attack. God has been good to us to let her be with us for a little longer.

Then I come back home from the highs and lows of ministry to be greeted by my two teenage boys complaints that the dinner is not what they wanted. I smile........outwardly. Inwardly I am angry as I eat dinner and then find myself agreeing the dinner is not so good..............I realise that the battle of planting a Church in the nations spiritual graveyard creates conflict at many levels. I encourage myself with thoughts that I could have been sent to Sodom or Nineva ...... well maybe Varazdin is not so bad.

1Peter 2:5 You, too, as living stones, are building yourselves up into a spiritual house and a holy priesthood, so that you may offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Anita Valjak