Samo 10

Last Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, a few of us missionaries and volunteers from the church spent the mornings putting up advertisements for this event that will take place at 7, tonight (Monday) through Friday in the Bosnian Cultural Center.

In Bosnian, "Samo 10 (or deset)" means "Only Ten." What sparks the curiousity is that the ad fails to elaborate--only ten what? As we've been hanging posters, passers by have stopped us on the streets, asking what Only Ten means, and we've had some fun and let them try a few guesses before telling them that it's actually referring to the laws God gave to Moses for Israel.

Faces inevitably fall in disappointment, and some Bosnian equivalent of, "Oh, that ten," follows, and they mutter and walk away. One guy actually corrected us and said there are only seven laws of God...we figured out later that he had mistaken the ten commandments for the seven deadly sins.

So anyway, every night this week, the Evangelical Church of Sarajevo Pastors Slavko and Sasa will each give a short 15 minute teaching on the ten Commandments, and then.....? Those who are interested will be invited to the church, or to receive more literature and information, and we're hoping that a lot of fruit will come from it.

We don't know who will come or how they will respond, but we are praying for great things to happen this week. Please keep Sarajevo in your thoughts and prayers!

Me, proud of how straight my posters are hanging :)

As you see, no one really cares what gets hung up on the walls downtown...anything goes! Great for us--we don't have to deal with the government for permission

Zeljko (Jel-ko), zealous and in charge