Student Ministry Montenegro

We want to start this blog with the amazing words from 1. John. 1, 1 - 4:  "That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our own eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched - this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us. We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. We write this to make our joy complete."  These words clings in our hearts and thrives us in our daily lives. God's word is alive! The bible proclaims many places (E.g. John 1) Jesus as the incarnation of the word of God. He is not only the incarnation of the word - he is God himself. 1/3 of the Trinity! God promised salvation and redemption in the Old Testament and those promises is full filled thr...

In the last blog, we still had a feeling of being in a bit of vacation mood. However, now - a month later - it feels completely opposite. We have kickstarted this semester in the most wonderful and beautiful everyday life way. The way, the truth and the life One scripture has grown in the mind and heart lately. It is provocative in regarding to the way we, as christians, undestand and talk about our own faith in Jesus Christ. It is from John. 14,6: "Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."  Sometimes, when we talked with people, who don't live with Christ, about Jesus, we can have a tendency to say something like: "I believe that Jesus is true, therefore, I am a christian." In theory, there is nothing wrong about saying and explaining your faith like that. However, this verse points on something even bigger. By saying the before mentioned sentence, we limits the truth about Jesus. Being...

We have welcomed the year since last time you heard from us. And we are excited to see what this year will bring for our organisation; and which paths God has prepared for us to walk in. We want to wish all of you a happy New Year; may God bless you all abundantly! We were thrilled to finish the year with a big outreach for around 2000 youngsters and children of our town and area! For years, we have worked together with the organisation "Samaritan's purse", which gives us the many boxes, so we can give them to children in our region. Around Christmas and New Years we were visiting 6-7 schools in the whole region of Niksic. The background of the schools were very different, but our experiences were the same: Both the pupils and teachers received us full of joy and excitement for us to bring the presents. Together with the boxes, we shared the good news of Jesus coming to the world to save all of us, as the biggest presents we can ever receive. Visiting a small school c...

Now, it has become time for us to share the last weeks progress in our work with students here in Montenegro. Every week, we see how God is working in students hearts in his own timing and speed. It makes us stand in awe for the King of Kings. He truly want people of this country to turn to him. Do not become weary! A couple of weeks ago, at our weekly team meeting, we were studying a passage from the bible; Mark. 5,1-20. It became a great encouragement for us:                         „They went across the lake to the region of the Gerasenes. When Jesus got out of the boat, a man with an impure spirit came from the tombs to meet him. This man lived in the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain. For he had often been chained hand and foot, but he tore the chains apart and broke the irons on his feet. No one was strong enough to subdue him. Night and day among the tombs and i...

Since last blog, our work really settled and every day life is rolling. However, many good things are happening and we are full of excitement and joy over being able to share the gospel with students in Niksic. Student meetings Since last blog we have hosted three student meetings. At one student meeting, we had invited Jeff Buxton from Bar to come and inspire students to create good CVs when their in the future want to apply for jobs. In daily life, Jeff runs a company together with his wife, Jennifer. Still this way of optimizing your chances to get a job is new in this culture and therefore we wanted to provide this chance for students to learn. The next two meetings were more traditional and classic. Danijel was leading an evening where we looked into the question: Am I good enough for Heaven? And the week after, Pete pointed us to the topic: The value of life. Both topics were created after the questionnaires we did at the first event at the university and they create...

Finally, we are back here on the blog after the summer vacation! We look forward to share the beginning of this school year with all of you. Sowing seeds in Niksic To one of our team meetings a couple of weeks ago, we were studying the gospel of Mark 4, 1-20. Something that really touched us regarding our ministry with students, but who has applications to all christians too. Jesus tells a parable to a large group of people who has gathered around him. It is about a sower, who sow seeds in different soils: along the path, rocky places, among thorns and in the end some fell on good soil. The seed only grows well in the good soil, while it quickly dies in the other kinds of soils. As with all other parables, Jesus uses this story, to show an example of how his word works and how different responses to it will be. Later on in the text, Jesus explains the parable to his disciples in the following way: "Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as ...

By being in the beginning of a new month, we look back on July with great joy in our hearts. It has been full of teams, camps and follow up and the intensity of our programme can not be neglected, but God has been working in so many marvellous ways. Therefore, the intensity has only veen in the best way, for God has over and over again shown his goodness through reaching people's hearts and minds by his Spirit. God indeed wishes to be in relationship with every single person and in all this we experience that he guides us in which steps to take next. God's goodness has indeed be a theme the last month. He is good and faithful to us every single day where he gives out of his love no matter which circumstances of good and bad we have in our everyday lives. We want to give thanks to him through Psalm 136, 1-3 + 26 in the Bible. "Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. His love endures forever. Give thanks to the God of gods. His love endures forever. Give thanks to the L...