Monday, August 24, 2015

Serbia

I'm now at the juice fasting camp in Crna Bara, a small village in the Hungarian part of Serbia, also called Vojvodina. I came here for the first time in 2009, when Lehel, my former classmate from Uchee Pines (who is a co-founder of this project) invited               Dr. Strachan and a few Uchee Piners to do some health programmes in Hungary and Serbia. Over the past six years, I haven't been able to come back, so I'm glad that it was finally possible. I really like this rural, primitive place. I'm on day five of my juice fast and it's been a good experience - although I still miss eating. Every morning at 7am, we get a special shake for kidney- respectively liver-cleanse. This is followed by kidney/liver tea at 8:30, fruit juice at 9:15, and vegetable juices at 12pm and at 2:30pm. After that, we get some potassium broth at 5pm, and another tea at 6pm. In between, we drink a special powder to cleanse the intestines, which consists of charcoal, clay, psyllium and some other ingredients. The main objective is to cleanse the bowels. We are also supposed to take some capsules with medicinal herbs to get the intestines moving. It's a very effective programme indeed; and it brings back fond memories from our time here back in 2009.

Our German camp meeting was blessed. In fact, there wasn't any major problem and the logistics went smoothly. This year, we only had about 290 attendees (as opposed to 350 last year and 400 in 2013), so this also made it easier for me.

On Wednesday, I'll be headed to Budapest to attend the ASI Europe meetings. After that, I'll be visiting my folks in Germany for one week before I head back to the US around September 10. So my Europe vacation is slowly coming to an end. Nevertheless, I look forward to returning to Uchee Pines!


Enjoying some melon juice
Preparing the juice
Busy helpers


Primitive, yet idyllic

Friday, August 7, 2015

Scandinavia

Yesterday, I came back from Scandinavia. I can look back on a very blessed and eventful 2 1/2 weeks there. After 19 years, I finally made it back to Norway. I arrived in Oslo, and the next day, I took a seven-hour train trip to Bergen at the west coast. It was a beautiful trip and this little city is really picturesque. Then I joined a car pool to go to the Living Water camp meeting in the Telemark, which is at the south coast of Norway. It was a spiritual blessing to be there, and I was even able to practise my Norwegian a little bit :-). Then I travelled to Stenshult, Sweden, where my friends Jay and Beathe run a small ministry. They had their annual summer camp meeting with Michael Avaylon from Washington. He gave some interesting talks on the Sanctuary. It was a nice atmosphere and it was good to see my friends again. After that I travelled to Stockholm to do a little sightseeing there. It was quite impressive to see "The Venice of the North", as they call this city.

So now I'm back to my home base in Brussels, but I'm busy getting ready for our annual German camp meeting. I really look forward to another spiritual blessing, and to see many friends again.

Interesting sculptures at Vigelanspark in Oslo




The harbour in Bergen
Beautiful view

At my 20th baptismal anniversary at a lake in Norway

So nice to see the Krueger family again
6 year old Johanna
With Beathe
Stenshult

And finally my sightseeing trip in Stockholm