On Friday, November 16, sixteen girls and five adults headed up to the DPB House in Severin for a junior high girl's retreat.  Many were making the trip for the first time. The idea and planning behind the retreat came from Ema and Miriam Kreko, daughters of our pastor from the Malesnica church. 

Miriam and Ema

The focus of the weekend was on self image and relationships with boys.  Ema and Miriam had noticed that these two areas of struggle often came up during their time together with the girls.  Here is what Miriam had to say about the weekend.
"We had a small retreat for girls from 16-18th of November in Severin.  For quite some time now, we've been thinking about ways to connect all the girls from our different small groups.  We saw a great need to open the subject of self esteem so we decided to join two groups from Zagreb, a group from Rijeka and Cakovec.  Our goal that weekend was for every girl to feel special, smart, pretty and above all to become aware of how much God loves her.  The verse that we based our talks and discussions on was Psalm 139:14.  It was so amazing to see how the girls connected and opened up to us.  We want to continue with our small groups and hopefully have many oportunities to bring girls together and closer to God.  We see how important it is to invest in the next generation, so please pray for persistance, patience and love in our ministry.  We would like to thank Sarah, Bonnie and Jenny who helped make this retreat possible."

Listening

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