"In this family we serve missions!"

“We need thousands of more couples serving in the missions of the Church. Every mission president pleads for them. They…can leave the grandchildren. Those little darlings will be just fine, and I promise you will do things for them in the service of the Lord that, worlds without end, you could never do if you stayed home to hover over them. What greater gift could grandparents give their posterity than to say by deed as well as word, “In this family we serve missions!”

-Jeffrey R. Holland

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Gracanica Monastery

(pronounced Grachanesta)

This is a 14th century Serb Orthodox church in the city of Gracanica, which is only about 9 km from Pristina.

There is a stone wall all around the church and they didn't want any pictures taken..so we scanned a post card. We puchased a beautiful white table cloth for the Gjakova ( church ) group for their sacrament table.

The words below the picture are in Serbian. In 1999 30,000 Serbs left Prishtina. some went back to Serbia and some went south to the town of Gracanica. About 13,000 Serbians live here. Their signs are in Serbian and they fly a Serbian flag.

Two km from the village of Grasanica are the ruins of an ancient Roman city from 300 a d. There is excavating going on in a big corn and grain fields to uncover the ruins . It was one of the most important Roman cities in the Balkans.