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A MONTH OF BLESSINGS
#July 2022
It has been a wonderful month full of blessings and divine appointments from the Lord. Don't you just love months like that? Oftentimes blessings aren’t so apparent, and we must make a conscious effort to recognize them.
OLD AND NEW FRIENDS

We've had an unusual number of guest speakers over the past month and a half, and it seems like God has been leading through lives friends from the past as well as new friends, speaking through them to our congregation, and knitting for us a network of wonderful relationships for the future. Gateway Church invited us to a time of fellowship and sharing with several European ministers in Budapest. This was an amazingly fruitful time of rest as well as spiritual refreshment and encouragement. We all shared our burden for seeing revival sweep Europe and concrete ways that we can prepare ourselves for a move of God.
CROATIAN LESSONS FOR UKRAINIANS

However much our Ukrainian brothers and sisters in the Lord are blessed by our care and help, we feel like they have given us so much more than we have given them. They are truly a blessing to our ministry. Most of them were very established in their churches in Ukraine and know how to serve, worship, and pray… and pray they do! We have felt a tremendous push forward in the spirit during our services since they’ve arrived.

This past month we began a free intensive language course for them in our facilities four days a week. This will help them learn Croatian better and more quickly and give them a better advantage in finding well paying jobs. A few weeks ago, one Ukrainian mother who had lost her husband just before arriving, came to the altar to give her heart to the Lord. This was an amazing testimony to us. She had been attending church regularly but was not saved. We have another couple (a mother and daughter) who have been attending church twice a week but are not saved. The daughter is coming to our teen camp next week. Please, be praying for them, that they would surrender their hearts to God.
PRAISE REPORT>

>We had one of our Ukrainians accept Christ!
>We were able to install a new hot water heater in our home.
>We have almost twice as many kids signed up for camp this year.
TEEN CAMP

Bonnie is in a whirlwind of activity this week as her team prepares for youth camp.
The team has been preparing and fasting once a week for months and seeking the Lord for the teens that he would send their way. Their camp as almost doubled since last year. Many of the teens registered come from unsaved homes, so please be praying with them that God would send his Spirit to convict and save.
OUR FAMILY

...is doing well. Filip has once again gone to the States to work over the summer holidays. Our family is looking forward to some family time in August. We have been taking a good look at what we can do to prepare our home for winter so that we can save on utilities. This month we were able to install a new hot water heater. Our old one had stopped working properly. We have some other issues in our home that need attention, so you can be praying that the Lord gives us wisdom.

Thank you all so much for your continual prayers and support of our ministry. We pray that your month is full of blessings. If you’re feeling discouraged today, take a moment and look at the blessings that God has placed in your life (however small they may be) and begin to thank the Lord for them. Seeing His everlasting faithfulness is something that always lifts my spirits.
 
Blessings,
Mario and Bonnie Dučić
PRAYER REQUEST>

>For our teens attending camp (especially the unsaved ones).
>For continued financial help for our Ukrainian refugees.
>For us to be able to get our house ready for winter.
Croatian Evangelistic Outreach