Each year my mum and few other women get together and organized a conference for all Christian women around Slovenia. This year was very special time of connecting to one another, listening to different testimonies, worshiping together, learning from the speaker, enjoying lunch together and praying for one another. Sebastian was the only guy at the conference. Honestly he had the most attention His role was helping with the sound, recording and taking it all on video. I was helping lead worship. It is good when God’s people come together to worship the Lord together in singing, listening to the message and encouraging one another. I was blessed to be there.

The speaker Gretta comes from Australia originaly and serves in Croatia

Katka and I helped lead music and helped with other little details

The song was written specifically for the event. We loved singing it

Ladies imaginig they have crowns on their head. We are God’s princesses

Malta trip was organized by CHN; an organization that cares for missionaries all around the globe and wants to thank them for their work by paying for their retreat. The invitation came as a surprise to us. We weren’t sure if it was real at first. Well, to be honest, you don’t really get e-mail like that every day of people inviting you to Malta, paying for your stay at the hotel, massages, spas, saunas, doctors, etc. A group of us decided to go and we had a fabulous time. It was all true what they wrote in their invitation. We had a privilege to stay at a beautiful hotel and be spoiled for six days. Our hearts were really touched. Everyone was so nice there and had a real servant hood attitude. We rested, spend time in God’s word, enjoyed our time with family and had massages every day. Now it’s back to our normal life routine; it’s nothing like Malta and that is why this getaway will remain so special in our hearts. Thank you God for this blessing.

The city of Valleta -capital of Malta. It rained the whole day

Sebastian & Gloria at a park in Valleta

The view from our hotel. The only day it didn’t rain and we were able to go to the beach.

Our group from Slovenia enjoyed spending time together playing cards at evenings (David&Katka, Gloria’s parents, Christina and us)

Gloria getting her manicure done.

Swimming in the sea was so fun! Cold at first but really enjoyable

By the way the New Hope tour was amazing. We were personally really encouraged and seeing the response from people was amazing. The major of our town came to the concert and he loved it. This morning we were at his office talking about it. He wanted to know everything about us, our work with youth and the church we go to. We will soon post more pictures from the tour and a video clip from the concert. You will enjoy it!

We were both trilled to find out we were having a boy! We asked our doctor to write it on a piece of paper, rather that telling us, so that we could go home, make dinner, light candles and celebrate as we opened the envelope and read it out loud together. Oooh, we can’t tell you how excited we were to find out news. Our boy is doing well. It is healthy and very lively (it was hard to take pictures and measure of him because he kept moving). Doctor made a comment he had long legs and that’s after Sebastian’s side of family. We praise God for keeping our baby healthy. Gloria needs to see the doctor again tomorrow. There is a possibility of premature birth, which is not that great. She has been resting for the last two days and we will see if it helped. Would appreciate your prayers.

You can’t really tell … but it is written on a piece ofpaper: It’s a boy! 3rd November 2008 and a signature of our doctor. He thought it was such a fun idea and told us he had never had a couple ask him to do that before.

Monday, 27. October was 20 weeks! The baby is growing and I can already feel it move. We are still on the singing tour with New Hope and it is so fun to feel the baby dance to the songs. The bump is more noticeable now.

Here’s the picture Sebastian took last night. It’s not the best one but It will do for now. Thanks for your encouraging e-mails and the care for us.

As we already told you, we joined New Hope (a few post earlier). Tonight is our youth meeting and we will be going around our town inviting people to the concert, handing out fliers and taping invitations in every single block-of-flat around our town! We leave tomorrow for the tour around Slovenia. We will have concerts in 11 different cities across Slovenia. Could you stop now and pray God moves across Slovenia in the next two weeks as we bring the gospel by singing about Him, give testimonies and do drama. We are really excited we get to be a part of this. I’ll finish here and start packing.

This is a picture of all of us who are a part of New Hope group 2008. We will be singing in Slovene.

Sebastian (bottom line, second on the left) and Gloria (bottom line, second on the right)

We leave for Austria to a special weekend away in a beautiful castle by a lake. We will be talking about relationships, boys, and purity. What does it mean to have healthy relationships? How can I make wise decisions and live happily ever after? Kristi Patty is our guest speaker who will be helping us think through these important questions!

Five of us girls from Radovljica will go - Neza, Eva, Ana, Patricija and Gloria. And some more girls from Ljubljana. We look forward to the coming weekend. Pray for us and our time together. We want to hear from the Lord and learn from Him.

From left: Neza, Patricija and Ana

Last friday we had a visit from a youth group from Kranj and let me tell you it was lots of fun. We began our program at the library in Radovljica with playing some games, listening to Sebastian give a talk and talking to each other. Than we all went to our house for hot-cocolate and some more fun time together. We planed a night out at Bled, but the rain changed our plans. Well, we still had a great time.

Ursha, Ana and Sabina leading games

Ursha and Sabina

Playing games

Sebastian spreaking to youth

Our hallways busy with people’s shoes

Everyone found their corner and enjoyed the night

We had a great time in Czech last week at the JV conference. There was about 160 people from 11 different countries. The theme was ‘the bride of Christ’. We had some amazing teaching on the subject of church as the body, ecclessia, the temple, the family and the bride of Christ. It was so refreshing for our soul.

Here’s a few pictures from our week in Czech:

Everyone that was at the conference

Slovenia team acting out Slovene gesture

Sebastian intensivly listening to the speaker teach on church

Sebastian speaking at the conference

Slovenia team (those who were at the conference)

A night out to get hot cocolate and have fun with our team mates

Sebastian, Gloria and Katarina (Gloria’s sister)

Sebastian & David (brother-in-law) enjoying cake