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Today was my first time attending a Croatian church service.   Thus, my first time singing worship songs in Croatian.  I found that even though I didn’t know what I was saying, the spirit was moving.  God gave me an image of a river and I prayed this while worshiping in Croatian today:

God, may you be a river that runs through this nation giving life to those places that have dried up or are dying.  We’re thirsty for you God!  Wash us, carry us, flow through us.  May your river bring life, may it revive us. 

They also asked us to come in the middle of them so they could pray for us.  It was awesome to feel their support and excitement about God bringing more laborers to Croatia.  They prayed for our future church, our current team, and for our family.  It was truly a blessing being there. 

Betsy

In our language class there are 13 countries represented and 15 people!!  We are currently in language study about 3 hours a day, every day, until the middle of June.  We just finished our first 2 weeks and only have 13 more to go!!   😐

So far though, we really are enjoying our language class!!  We have found that learning French has helped us learn another language.   Almost every day in public, we try to use what we’ve learned in class.  We can order at restaurants and can have basic store interactions.  

After 2 weeks of language learning, we know how to say: who we are, where we’re from, how are you,  how we’re doing, what our names are, our age, numbers, what our professions are and how to ask what someone else does.  Our vocabulary now consists of:  20 or so animals, several professions and countries, family terms, basic food items, several other basic and random nouns, like church and walnuts, and important things like how to order a rotisserie chicken!!

Even though we are feeling the weight and tiredness of learning our third language, we have truly enjoyed it thus far, and look forward to the big adventure ahead!!

                Thank you Dave, Marybeth, and Makayla, for answering God’s call in your lives to this very special ministry. We welcome you to our ministry team and look forward to all that God will do through you to touch the lives of many people.         –Ev Tustin

                One of our Poland Partners wrote to me and proposed that if the Partners could come up with the $12,000 needed for materials for a Work and Witness team, he would do his best to field a team to go to Copenhagen as soon as is feasible. The team members would pay their own way for transportation, food, and housing but would need the additional funds for the project as required by Work and Witness. So if any of you could assist with funding some or all of the materials needed, let me know soon and we will help move the Copenhagen Sweet Surrender Coffee Shop forward.

                If you are in a church that would like to field a team, including the materials cost, let me know. I will put you in touch with those who will be scheduling teams for Copenhagen. Katie Fitch, who was instrumental in the development of our shops in Poznan and Krakow, will be facilitating this work. We are praying that the Lord will help raise up many people to participate in this project and push it to completion. Thank you all for your faithful support of the Sweet Surrender Coffee Shop ministry as it continues to expand.