Stories from the Field – MTW Bulgaria

Kiss the King

“Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth. Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.” (Psalm 2:10-12) “If you come for […]

Ultimate Frisbee

Zach has started having frisbee practices with a group of people that are brand new to the game. It started with being asked to put together a team for a newcomers tournament. It went so well that he was encouraged to continue as his own team. This is great because this way he can keep it […]

Mournful and Joyful

Last year at this time I had to tell the choir director at our downtown mother church that I couldn’t sing on Sunday, since I had been in England the week before and a virus was spreading. One year later I attended choir practice and found out that one of my fellow sopranos had passed […]

Nov Zhivot New Member Class

In March Nov Zhivot Church hosted the first ever new members course. Eleven regular and new attenders of our church gathered Friday evening and all day Saturday to learn more about the church. Friday night we discussed what the church believes by going through the Apostles’ Creed, on Saturday we talked about what we practice […]

Heroic Death

The picture above is of Vasil Levskl, a Bulgarian national hero. 35 years before Bulgaria won freedom from the Ottoman empire, Levski was sentenced to death for his role in seeking to free the Bulgarians from Ottoman rule. Ordained as a monk in the Orthodox church, Levski left his church role to become a revolutionary. […]

Bread Blessed by a Priest

“I had a short spiritual conversation with a young person outside an Orthodox church that they had just been praying in. She gave me this bread that was blessed by the priest. We are praying for the reforming of the Orthodox Church. Thankful for these opportunities to talk about Christ with someone who is a […]

Thankful

Drawn on a door in our Christian Cultural Center is our thankfulness tree. It started bare and a little sad, but every Sunday church morning and Wednesday English club night we’ve seen new leaves of thanks added to its foliage in reds, yellows, and oranges. On Sunday our church plant women’s group met together for […]

The Jesus Storybook Bible

My Bulgarian teacher sighed when I pulled out the colorful children’s Bible. She seemed to agree that reading would be useful for me, but envisioned boring hours of listening to horrendous pronunciation and stories that she already knew. Two days later I was back with the same book and the same grin of excitement. As […]

Plovdiv Internship

A short term trip for Audrey + an English Camp for teens = an internship in Plovdiv. Now Audrey is developing a young ladies Bible Study with teens from our Teen English Camp.

English Camp 2018

“We talk about God and what the Bible says at English Camp. What do you think about that?” Each year we ask students this question during the application for English Camp. It always provokes interesting conversations, even before we leave for camp! This year our theme was God is Rescuer. Over the course of the […]