Update, October 2024

Dear brothers and sister,

I just want to give you an update on my recent trip to US.

By the grace of God and by the great help from some freinds I was able to travel to US for first time in order to visit some churches and pastors and to present what we are doing in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in city of Zenica.

Many that I talked with were a bit schocked when they heard that in our country we have less then 300 new born believers (Bosnian believers, not counting Catholic and Orthodox Christians).

That was very important to mention since many thought that by coming to our country they can do things (discipleship, seminaries, etc.) like in some other ex-Yugoslavia countries (mostly Croatia and Serbia where some churches are much bigger in numbers).
It was important to present real situation we are facing here and to talk about what we all can do in order that this situation will be changed.

On this trip I visited four Foursquare pastors and churches and they have done the best they could to connect me with others. Also I was invited to preach in three churches and I also met brother Bob Hunt who is president of Foursquare Mission Press.

I will just shortly update you on three things I talked there with pastors (three things we are targeting right now):

1. Second space we want to purchase (beside our worship space) for kids and church office

For that we need $71.000/EUR 61.000 (purchase and renovation). It will enable us to have great place where we can have kids and where we can teach them and make small dicipelship place for the youngest ones. Also there we can have nice room for church office (place where we can store all documents and all paper work we have).

2. Building two houses on bee land in Derventa

Those of you who have been on this land (by the way land belongs to and is registreted on church name) you know our vision. Vision is not just to work with bees but also to reach that town for Jesus. Since we already have people we reached there and some of them wants to come on our services, building of this two houses will help us to fulfill vision we have and vison is to have those objects for 3 things: a) church space, b) bee work and c) place where we can receive group of people from Europe and US and have small conferences and gatherings.

Whole this project cost $153.ooo or EUR 133.ooo (two houses and all work done inside-out)

3. Our family

Even I put this on last place some people understand why we first talked about us. As we (as family) have done everything to first build a place of worship in city of Zenica God told me (2. Chronicles 7:11) that we will accomplish successfully all that we plan to do in God’s hous but also in our own hous.
As most of you knows, we have laid our lives for serving as missionaries and workers in this hard and tough country with predominantly Muslim population. Your prayers and givings helped us to accomplish a lot of things and we have throgh this work reached probably around 1,5 million people in Bosnia.
But as we grow older we need your help to “stay above water” mostly since some of our fathfull supporters are now old and some have health issues and they will need more to think on themself. Please be free to reach us if God speeks to you about us.

 

Some of those pastors I talked with already made decision to come and visit us next year and I hope we will have great time together.
If any of you would like to connect with me you can do it by Whatsapp (number below) or through Zoom etc.

Blessings

Pastor Dario Kapin
Biblijska protestantska crkva/Biblical Protestant Church
+38766706642
Prve zeničke brigade 9A
72000 Zenica
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Here are 3 videos from church services in Colorado (23 church, Greely) and California (City church, Buena Park and Point of grace church, Rancho Cucamonga).