The Lord has been keeping us safely here in spite of the problems in neighboring Serbia. I’ve gotten 2 separate letters from 2 people from Oklahoma (among other places) telling us to be careful here. Then look what happened there? The Lord has kept them from the tornadoes and He is keeping us also here. Before coming here I was teaching public school in California. The only safe place is in trusting Him wherever you are.

A super thank you to all of you who helped with donations this last month.

We have been regularly visiting a center for handicapped people, for the past few months. We have become friends with many of the people there and visit them in their homes and a group of them regularly come to our home. We have also been working with a group of teens from a halfway house for Juvenile delinquents. On one of our visits to the home of Petra, a handicapped woman from the center, we brought along a boy from the Juvenile delinquent center. Upon seeing that the woman’s house was in such poor condition with a leaky roof he offered to help her fix up her house. We got some of our friends in Italy to bring over paint and materials to fix up her house. This was a super inspiration to us to see that we are teaching others to help others.

	Francesco, Paolo, 2 of Petra's sons, and Fleur
Mark giving flannelgraph at handicapped center.

We have made a commitment as a home to visit the handicapped center every week to help them. The greatest need they have is love and acceptance. They like being with us because we treat them as friends. Last week we got together with them at the apartment of a girl from the center. I gave them a Matthew 24 class. We had planned to have one of our people do the translating into Croatian, but one of the guys there volunteered and did an excellent job. The Bible is something completely new to many of them as most of them are from a Muslim background.

Natasha, a Croatian woman who lives in Canada and does aid work here came for a few weeks to help. She had been a refugee herself many years ago. She took a few of us along to the refugee camps in Vojnic on the Bosnian border to encourage the refugees. She also took a few of us to visit a NATO base in Bosnia to encourage the soldiers. She had arranged for us to go on a convoy to Albania but just before we would have gone the Serbs closed the border with Croatia and Montenegro.

Apart from that we have been visiting new people and following up on people with Bible classes and our young people have been meeting and witnessing other young people downtown, at the local soccer court, and beach where the have their daily exercise time.

I’m working on a web site to show the local work. It’s mostly pictures with a few short testimonies. It seems like that works better than sending out an e-mail newsletter with photos. It’s no more work than a newsletter but that way each month I can just add a few more pictures and testimonies and include a link to it in my email newsletter.

If you can help with a donation our home is in Donetsk, Ukraine(Ui013).
If you are in the US if you would like do send a check by mail.
Mark Jacobs
PO Box 721132
San Jose, CA, 95172

Love, Mark