oh bulgaria, how i will miss you...

(myself, john paul, aaron)

(krassimir and mama mitcka (my most recent bulgarian mother))




(sonja and todor - my mama and papa from a previous visit to bulgaria. they were quick to rustle up some cake, coffee, and baklava as i stopped by to pay them a visit.)


(the day after christmas, krassi's family invited us to visit them in the village of palenitza)


(krassi's sister annie)

(krassi's grandfather and father)






(annie, touring palenitza)

(pastor timotei, and a pastor from the village of septemvre. on my first visit to septembre in 2005, we were helping this pastor on the construction of his church. the church should be completed by this june.)


(in 2005 this room was still without a roof)

(misho, the pastor of a church in a gypsy village)

(this kind man i encountered as he came from the basement of our apartment building)