Groceries and Church!

Two important things in our lives, physical food and spiritual food!

By the way, I am going to most of the photos at the bottom of the page. There are so many of them it will just be better. Remember you can click on them to see them bigger.

On Saturday we went shopping. In the morning we went to a store called Plodine.
There many interesting things about shopping here. One is that you have to put a deposit on your shopping cart. Since most everyone walks or rides a bike I am sure that is to discourage people from taking the carts. You use a key to push the coin out when you place the cart back in the rack. They have some familiar items in the stores and some not so familiar. They also eat a lot of processed meats.

After a trip through the store we decided to have a cup of coffee at the cafe outside. That was not all they served but it was all we felt we should partake in. There was a cat who thought he should join us for some coffee also.

We went back to the house where we prepared dinner. Lois has a garden outside and she grows her own lettuce so I helped her pick a little for my salad and the tacos we were going to prepare. Unfortunately there was no seasoning to finish the tacos so I walked to a grocery store not far from the house. They had a packet of seasoning that worked for the tacos. All the seasonings in that store were in bags. They did not have bottled seasonings so I could make tacos the way I do at home.

After lunch some took naps, while some of us went to look at some local art. The clocks on the table were made by a man who John knows. He makes some in the shape of Croatia, they are very nice. His wife is blind, she uses a loom to make purses and things out of wool. She is the only woman in Croatia who uses this kind of loom still. Later, Diana and I picked some cherries and I took some photos.

Later that afternoon we went to another store called InterSpar. It was a larger grocery store with some other items like toys, art supplies, etc. There was a strip mall behind this store. One thing that we found there were the spices. Now Lois will not have to rely on packaged seasoning for Tacos. After this trip, we returned home and had leftovers.

On Sunday, we first travelled to Sisak to church. There is so much to see here and history to hear about this area. I have noticed that there are a lot of fruit trees, vines, and bushes. Many people have vegetable gardens. There also a lot of Roses all over the country.
The church service was very nice. I loved the fact that the children were allowed to help with the music and then have their own service in a different part of the church. Because there were a number of people from different places the paster did his welcome in American and Croatian. The speaker was another missionary from Korea, his name was Yangkee Kim. After the service we travelled back to the house and had a wonderful lunch.
On Sunday evening, we travelled to Glina to have a service there, John our host was the speaker. There was a little girl named Silvana, there who was drawing flowers during the service, she was doing a great job. After the service we enjoyed some pastries and juice with the congregation. I told the little girl I thought her drawing were wonderful, and I drew her a picture. She drew one for me.
Before we left the town of Glina we filled some bottle from the spring there.
All in all our weekend was full and fulfilling as we had fellowship with each other, God and with other Christians. As God's children we should always seek to share time with others, and allow God to be there in all we do.
Please continue that God will bless this trip and use all of us for His honor and glory.