Leadership Development Encounter

I stayed in South Africa a little bit longer than I normally do, as my brother and his family were coming to visit and so I wanted to wait and spend time with them. And I was also able to help with an online leadership training course while I was in South Africa! This course was born in Covid times, but still seems to be very popular as we had over 50 people take part in this, the 5th one that has been run. 

It was 5 days over 2 weeks with assignments in between, and I really enjoy using my giftings to teach and facilitate the daily processing group. And I love being able to work (virtually) with a wonderful group of people. I also continue to coach/mentor people I connect with in these programs once they are finished.

Starting early to celebrate my 50th!

Yes, I am turning 50 this year in June. I decided I wanted to celebrate with my Cape Town friends, and so I decided to celebrate my "American" birthday (3.6 = March 3) as my birthday is 3.6 (= 3rd of June!) And I am so glad I did!! 

My friend, Sarah, had celebrated her 50th a month before, and so I got her to bring me her 50th swag and she also brought some amazing flowers:

And I got my friend, Keren, to bring her party lighting which added to the atmosphere!! (And actually came in helpful when we had "loadshedding" during the party and we didn't have to worry about it as we had light!! 

Here is a pic of all of us - thanks to Katherine's lovely long arms. It really was a lovely evening with lovely people! 

I look forward to celebrating my actual birthday in Bosnia in June! 

Taste of Bosnia 2024

 On Saturday, I hosted a "Taste of Bosnia" event at my church. It was great fun! 

I had 6 ladies in the church who helped with making the cakes (and I made some as well!) so we had a wonderful spread! Here is Sarah about to dive in! 

Martin helped to make the Bosnian coffee, and many people had a try of that or the "Herzegovinian tea" (herbal tea made with 9 different kinds of herbal teas): I also had a lovely crew of helpful people in the kitchen - so grateful to everyone who helped out!! 

Here is little Ivanka showing how to use the coffee grinder! Her Dad is actually Bosnian (and her Mom South African), so she should know how to use one!:

Here she is with her Mom and Dad and others from my church: 

Everyone had a lovely time enjoying the tea or coffee and the lovely eats! 

It really is lovely seeing people enjoy the eats! My Bosnian friend said they really tasted amazing and gave compliments to all the makers - he thought we had bought stuff from a Bosnian bakery! 

And here are some old friends reunited - I love being the reason people get together! 

Talking of old friends - Nils on the right is my oldest guy friend and I haven't seen Rory since my last Bosnian event in 2019. 

After a little bit, I did a presentation of what I do in Bosnia, followed by a QUIZ!! Each table got to answer as a team against the other tables.

We didn't get a pic of the winning table (mainly because the photographer was on that team!) who got all the questions correct, but here is table number 2 who only missed one question!

It is no suprise that the teams that won or came second had those who are longest standing members of my prayer support group on them!! Here we are together!! 

We ended the afternoon with a time of prayer:

It really was a lovely event, and everyone that came had a lovely time!