Dear friends,
I hope that you'll find the time to read about what's happening now in our ministry and work for the Lord. Last month was a special time because we had guests [from Sarajevo, Bosnia]. These missionaries really encouraged us. We went visiting in different places around Kucura, Vojvodina and some people got saved.

We also delivered humanitarian aid from members of the Evangelical Church in Novi Sad who had collected clothes. The Roma people in Selenci village were really excited to receive this urgently needed gift. They were so happy to know that someone remembered and cared for them. We are really thankful to the pastor and members of this church.

Another humanitarian organization also provided clothes for all the places where we are working with the Roma. God's Spirit is working in our Roma school project: children are actively involved in the lessons, showing real interest, and regularly coming to the class. Our teacher is not a believer but he finally started to teach the children scripture verses. The Lord is meeting with him.

The teacher asked me to share a request with you about a project that we have in mind. We would like to take our Roma children on a one-day camp in July. We need 200 Euro for transportation, food, and other expense. Please pray about it.

Another essential need we have is for a car. We had a lot of problems with the last car and I can't drive it any more. Because of our location, this prevents us from going regularly to the home groups which are all over the place. There are not good bus connections and the distances are so far. We have started to collect money for another car; please pray for that.

In my home village, we started to rent a house for schooling our Roma kids and holding church meetings. We have to pay 25 Euro per month. The Lord put on my wife Daniela's heart that this house will be a HOME OF PRAYER, so in faith she asked the owner what the price would be to buy it: 9000 Euro. The house has enough space to be our Roma Center. It has a bathroom and other facilities on the first floor and is located close to the center. Please join us in prayer to buy this ROMA CENTER.

We are really thankful for your prayers.

Warm greetings,
Aleksander and Daniela Subotin

A visit in the Vojvodina
(report from the Roma Ministry team, Sarajevo)

For a couple years now we have been in relationship with Aleksander Subotin and following him in his ministry and life. He is part of a church planting team under the leadership of Nebojsa Dolic north from Novi Sad, the capitol of Vojvodina. The last time we visited him was 4 years ago.

On the morning of April 27th. we (Goran, Kada, Susy and Reinhold) started an 8 hour ride toward Kucura, a small village in the Vojvodina (1 hour in the north from Novi Sad). We drove through the Bosnian mountains where the roads have so many curves that some of us got car sick. The landscape in the Vojvodina is totally different compared to Bosnia - just completely flat. There are fields as far as the eye can see as well as between the various villages.

In the afternoon we arrived at the place where Aleksander Subotin lives with his family. He is 23 years old, married to his wonderful wife Danijela and has an 8 month old son, Vladimir. He lives with his grandparents in a little house with an absolutely basic lifestyle. Behind the house in the garden is an out-house. There was no water in the house. They had to get it from the waterpipe infront of the house beside the road. After eating a wonderful meal (just cooked because of her hospitallity), we had time to talk and share about what has gone on in each of our lives since the last time we saw each other.

In the evening, their church plant had a service. 25 people came together in a garden. After a worship time and teaching from Goran, we had a time of ministry for the people. Kada and Susy prayed for a girl with a tooth ache. But the Holy Spirit didn’t heal only this pain. This girl was also very saddened about the recent loss of her grandparents and so she god released that too.

On Saturday we drove to the village of Panonija, a kind of well-known place for tourists. There is a place to do a barbeque and just hang out. That was also the place where Danijelas family stayed because of their buisness. They run a small amusement park to make some income. During the summertime they live in an RV and travel from village to village. Also Aleksander owned his own small "amusement park ride" and would like to make money out of it so he can live of it and support his ministry. Danijelas family are Sinti-Roma. Once again we were fed a wonderful meal. We found out that we know a relative of Danielas grandmother. He is a missionary in Slovakia. We made contact with him later. It's a small world!

Sundays we visited an another place where Aleksander ministers: Savino Selo. There we had a short meeting with Nebojsa Dolic and his team of church planters from the Assemblies of God, where Aleksander also belongs. Every three months they have a gathering to build up the team. Even though we couldn't stay long we were very encouraged through the faithfulness they have shown over the years. We left and headed toward Selenca. That is 36 km away from Aleksandras village. He visits them regularly and sometimes he has to get there by bike or other transportation. In Selenca, the Roma live in a dump, surrounded by garbage. It smells awful. Sometimes there are dead animals, medicine from the hospital, and so on in the trash. We organized a childrens progam and Goran and Kada gave their testemony. Once again we prayed for healing for some people, and also for some to receive Christ into their lives, as well as other things. Some of them mada a decision for the first time to follow Christ!

In the evening we went to Ravno Selo, another village where there is also a home group. At the end we visited a Roma family and prayed for one of the men because he is facing a difficult situation right now. The man is being sentenced, after 10 years of being on trial, to 1 year in prison. This is a shock to the family because he is the bread winner for the family. On Monday we stayed with Aleksandars family. There was a lot of time to pray, to talk, to take part in an interview, etc. Again in the evening we visited a home church.

May 1st we brought Aleksander to his buisness - because that is a traditional holiday and there is a lot of opportunity to make money out of that. Then we drove through the mountains again to go home, back to Sarajevo. What was so touching for us was to see how Aleksander serves the Lord with a thankful heart even though life is difficult for him. He is a good example for so many.

Blagoslov,

Kako ste? Šta ima novo?

Želim deliti sa Vama jedno svedočanstvo. Sad dok radimo sa luna parkom u jednom selu. Bog mene podsetio na nešto veoma važno za mene. To veče smo slabije radili, ja sam bio zahvalan Bogu i za to. Odjednom primetio sam grupu romske dece i mladih. Pozvao sam ih da dođu da se voze ali oni su rekli da nemaju para. Objasnio sam im da ću ih pustiti ali da ne moraju da plate. Dok sam gledao kako se voze i raduju, počeo sam da govorim reć Božiju njima.
Na jednom sam osetio punini neku u svom srcu. Osećao sam se kao da sam zaradio milione.
Tada me je Gospod podsetio, da će moje bogatstvo biti ljudske duše koje dolaze k njemu.
Tako sam bio i spunjen ti mladi su me pozvali da dođjem u njihovu kuću.
Jedna Crkva nam sakulja humanitarnu pomoć za naš rad sa Romima, sakupili su dosta lepe garderobe. U potrebi smo da platimo prevoz i da distribuiramo robu po lokalnim naseljima. Za to nam je potrebno 100 Evra.
MOLITE SE ZA TO.
POZDRAV I BLAGOSLOV

U 2007 godini za vreme bozicnih praznika smo podelili dosta paketica romskoj deci, je jedna porodica koja zivi u teskoj finansijskoj situaciju, ona zena je udobica i zivi sa dvoje dece. Puno su se radovali poklonu kad smo im odneli posto njihova majka nije mogla da im kupi.

Ova slika (desno) je kucna grupa u RAVNOM SELU. Ta grupa je udaljena od mene 20km, redovno ih posecujemo.

Veoma su vredni u podeli novih zaveta i zele da svedoce drugim nespasenim porodicama. Molite se za jednu porodicu imaju problema sa laznom optuzbom za silovanje.

SLIKA (lijeva) je deciji cas kod nas u kuci. Imamo mali prostor za rad sastajemo se u nasoj kuci koja ima 16m2, TREBAO BI NAM VECI PROSTOR, molite se zato.

Deca su aktivna i zele da se uce bozijim putem. Molite za pomocnike za rad sa decom. Molite se takodje za PREGLED 130dece, na zadnjem sastanku sa lekarom, sam saznao da moram imati prvo svoje udruzenje gradjana pa moram napraviti ugovor o delu sa lekarom, i moramo mu platiti 100eura, zakonski.

Sve se iskomlikovalo za udruzenje nase molite se. Sve papire bih trebao advokat da sredi, ali nemamo sredstva za to.

AKO NE SREDIMO PAPIRE ZA UDRUZENJE DECA NECE BITI PREGLEDANA, A U VELIKOJ SU POTREBI ZA TIM.

MOLITE ZA NAS BIZNIS NEKA BOG SVE

MOLITE ZA MOJU ZENU I DALJE IMA ARITMIJU I MORA NEKI APARAT HOLTER DA JOJ PROVERI RAD SRCA.

HVALA ZA VASE MOLITVE I PODRSKU

ROMSKA MISIJA U VOJVODINI

Dear friends,
I wish you an abundance of the blessings! I'm happy I can share the news about the ministry with you! I found out all what we need to be part of Roma association as we could serve to the Lord more effective this way!

We got humanitarian aid, food, cloths, and we still share it. As we have Roma school, many childern never visited a doctor, and I decided to brign doctor to our area to do oversight as it's very important things and something what was my prayer as well.

The kids are exposed many illnesses as there was a garbage area in the past. the doctor looked over 130 kids according to the situation. We will have an action ''Save Roma youth" where doctor will advice and speak with the youth. The work in other places progress, we have new people, Roma school progress as well, new teacher helps us a lot and he works on a very interesting way.

Avout our business, we still seek for the organisations which are willing to give us credit, as we believe that we will start in April with our business.

My car should be repaired, the engine should be totally repaired.

Greetings!
Aleksandar Subotin