Monday, December 8, 2008

Molitve Konferencija

So this weekend was the Prayer Conference in Tuzla.
It was amazing!!!
We left Friday morning for Tuzla and when we got there we spent some time with the pastor and his family.
Then we went out to lunch and Petula showed us around town.
It was very cool to see everything.
After we dropped our bags off at our apartment we headed over to Hotel Tuzla (where the conference was being held) and helped them get some last minute things ready.
People started arriving, and it was so cool to see that I actually knew lots of people... from all the traveling to different churches and visiting with different people!
We had dinner around 6ish and then off to the session.
The worship all weekend was amazing!!!
And every talk was great.
We were also split up into different prayer groups and met with them several times for prayer time.
Prayed for the country, for the peope (believers and nonbelievers), for the churches here, for the leaders, etc.
I really enjoyed this time.
Sara talked Saturday morning about praying with authority - how NOTHING is impossible for God and that when we pray we need to have faith and believe that.
Saturday afternoon we went on prayer walks.
We all signed up for either a section of Tuzla of different towns around the city.
The group I signed up with went to a little town about a half hour out of Tuzla.
It was raining, so our prayer 'walk' turned into more of a prayer 'drive' so we drove around the town for a long time just praying.
Then (as is the Bosnian way) we decided to stop and get coffee.
=D
When we got back we all just hung out until it was time for dinner.
After dinner I went out (or in really) for coffee with Mirja, Alden, Allix, and Bekah.
Then came the night session.
Again, the talk was great and the worship was... WOW.
Honsetly I love to worship with these people.
We spent the longest time that night just worshiping God.
It was awesome!
Sunday morning we had church service and then everyone said their goodbyes as people started to head home.
I hated this because this weekend was the last time I'll get to see my friends (other than the ones here in Sarajevo) before I leave this weekend.
We'll keep in touch of course, but I am still sad to be leaving them.
We went out to lunch and then started on the drive home.
Then we had church here last night.
Boro talked and he did a good job.
It was kinda funny because he wasn't able to go to the Prayer Conference this weekend because he had some other conference to go to, but his sermon sooooo resembled the one we got yesterday morning - about Job and how important it is to be faithful.
At the end of the service Saša called me and Allix and Bekah to come up and he talked about us for a little and then prayed for us.
This was unexpected and thankful/grateful that he did this.
I was able to understand bits and pieces of what he was saying, but it is probably a good thing I didn't completely understand everything because I probably would have started crying while I was up there (instead told us later what he was saying).
I want to say that I am so sad to be leaving in less than a week - but I am not allowed to be sad yet.
Miki told me that I can only be sad on the day that I am leaving, so I am working hard on that.
I'm not ready to leave yet.
I feel so confused...