Travel: 5 hour flight from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso à Addis Ababa, Ethiopia à 5 hour flight to Rome, Italy à 1.5 hour flight to Podgorica, Montenegro à 8 hour bus ride to Sarajevo, Bosnia
Location: Sarajevo, Bosnia
Language: Bosnian (Serbian), English
Ministry: Unsung Heroes, finding new potential hosts for future WorldRace teams/squads that come through Bosnia
Climate: 1,700 feet elevation. Low 80s every day, and high 50s at night. Pretty ideal
Food: Bread, meat, cheese, potatoes. Aka the Balkan diet.
My squad and I just had our third debrief in the very beautiful town of Tivat, Montenegro, right on the Adriatic Sea (put it on your bucket list). We stayed there for about a week and half decompressing, relaxing, and discussing what we wanted the next few weeks of our race to look like. Since we didn’t have an assigned ministry host, we had free choice of where we wanted to go in the Balkan region. We felt God calling us to Sarajevo, Bosnia. So we went!
When we arrived we didn’t have a place to stay. We thought we did but the place we booked on Airbnb only had two beds when they advertised eight, and the kitchen was a stove in the hallway of his mom’s downstairs apartment. So without ever having met the guy, and after waiting 4 hours for him, we just left to find a different lodging site. We found a local university that rents out its housing when the student are on holiday for the summer. Lucky for us, that was the first day of this year they were doing this, God works in unseen ways. From there we were able to find an apartment in the center of Sarajevo that was below our budget! It has been very interesting here. There is still so much evidence of the war here. If you think about how much of an impact the Civil War still has on the U.S. today, and how long ago that was. This war was only 25 years ago: bullet holes in buildings, graffiti, and brick ruins amidst the tall buildings. However, instead of race being the affected issue, it is religion.
Only .16% of the population here in Bosnia are Christians. This means out of the 3.5 million people here only 5,500 of them are Christians. We are working closely with a woman who we believe is the doorway into bringing teams of WorldRacers into Bosnia and ultimately the kingdom of God!
On another note I was able to upload my video of months 4-6 in West Africa, Ivory Coast and Ghana!
