Less than Six Weeks

T-minus Six weeks and counting

We take off for Bosnia and Herzegovina in a little more than five weeks from now. Our team has consulted with the group we will be working with there and planning to facilitate the following workshops.

Digital Storytelling

First, Patrick will be conducting a Digital Storytelling workshop. We will be working with the youths to create their digital stories. These will be three to five minute first-person narratives with pictures. Their communication skills will be improved by doing this and with and their skills in working together will be enhanced. And it may also promote healing from the wounds of the wars.

Patrick has taken a couple of workshops and has made a couple of stories (send him an e-mail and he’ll send you those links). From the beginning, this has been one of the items that the missionary couple in Capljina, Bosnia has said they would like us to do. He excited and nervous about leading a workshop. But with God’s help, we know it will be good.

How to Speak Southern

We will also be conducting a workshop on the difference between the Queen’s English and the real (Southern) English. We will help them to recognize American idioms and sayings. We may even get them to be saying “y’all” before we leave.

Ljeto Sports Camp

We will be supporting the Novi Most staff in putting on a summer sports camp. Instruction will be given in basketball, and "football" (soccer to us Americans).

City Square Festivities
We also plan to again go out to the city squares one night to bring attention to the Novi Most center. Last year this was very effective in helping Mick and Ali get recognition as legitimate youth workers in town.

All in All
So we will be busy while we are there. We have a lot to do to prepare for the trip before we leave. We will be meeting as a team a number of times to firm up what each of us is to bring and prepare.

Wooden Hourglass 3 photo by S Sepp Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license