Boyana River, Bulgaria

• Celebration Christian Center & Prayer:  How to pray for missionaries who are preparing to go to the field – in this case, Mexico!
• x3:  Busy times coming up for this family!  I’m sure they could use your prayers as well (South Africa).
• Beginnings in Greece:  Well, the title speaks for itself.  Some thoughts after a move to Thessaloniki.
• Coffee Mondays & Rosehip Jam:  Somewhere between enchanting and tragic – the things missionaries see, and something to pray about in Bulgaria.
• Youth Camp:  Thoughts on an upcoming youth camp with 200 teens in El Salvador.
• My People:  So what does that term mean to you?  Thoughts from the jungles of Cameroon.
• A Trip Into Mexico City’s Urban Slums, and a summary of the mission objectives…

Thanks for coming along for another year of missionary blogs!  Join us again next year for much more from about 500 active missionary blogs from around the world!

• Jungle Abbotts – coming to you from Cameroon!
• Today’s Grace – actually home now, but just embarking to return to El Salvador!
• Across Cultures – all the way to Bulgaria, in fact!  Not sure where they’re from, though – North America, I think?
• Reaching Cape Town – obviously in South Africa!
• Landon Rogers – actually, in Landon, London, England – United Kingdom!
• Being in the way, the Lord led me… – and it looks like He led them to Mali!

But today we’re going to use that tag cloud to focus on the countries that aren’t there – the countries that are mentioned less here at Missionary Blog Watch.  Here’s the first sample…

Power plant in Sofia, Bulgaria

• Togo:  "First of all, imagine that you take every single thing you own and you put it in a container.  Then that container goes on a ship that might sink…" read May Update
• Tanzania:  "We’re out of water. We’ve been out of water for days…"  read Perfect Laid Plans
• South Africa:  "Highland communions typically lasted over a period of five or more days. Informal fellowships and prayer meetings run by the elders might stretch this out to a week…."  How does this Scottish tradition relate to South Africa?  Read Easter Communion
• Cambodia:  "I thought you would like to read my email conversation with my dad where he asks some good questions about the new place we are living…"
• Costa Rica:  "I had really hoped that I would not feel right at one of the places, but that didn’t happen. Now I’m torn…"  read My Heart is Torn
• Bulgaria:  "Since returning in March, I have been asked about training for teenager/youth over here.  Besides the Love Bulgaria event there seems to be a big hunger for information on the training and equipping of students for service to Christ…"  read Teenage Work – Once a Youth Pastor …
• Columbia:  "It’s been a bad time for the students. A week ago it was announced they would loose their free mid-morning coffee…"  read No more Colombian coffee

In honour of the event, Missionary Blog Watch is bringing you a few highlights from Europe – posts for you to enjoy:

• Let’s start with this Video Update – an overview of the ministry of Abe and Jenny! (UK)
• The challenges of teaching for the Lord in Classroom management and teaching abroad (Russia)
• Boa Pascoa! (Happy Easter) (Poland)
• Have you heard of this?  The tragedy of Norway’s Russ… (Norway)
• What a week we have had! (Bulgaria)
• Ready for a Crusade?  mission in postchristendom – questions that challenge assumptions (Cyprus)

Now for more, go check out the new Missionaries in Europe page!

• Bangladesh:  I know of Bangladesh Adventures.  A recent post highlights the need for teachers.
• Bulgaria:  You can check out the Mellingers in Bulgaria, who recently wrote about slippers.
• Croatia:  America to Zagreb was recently writing about an early Christmas present.
• Greece:  How about Mike and Maria Long?  Their recent news includes a Court Case, Bike Trip, and Surgery
• Honduras:  Well, we do have The Sims Family in Honduras.  Their recent post had the eye-catching title Overdue and I am not even pregnant….
• Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast):  Actually, the Farho family has a number of blogs on their site.  Everything from family to fitness is covered here!  Recent posts include Why God allows pain and Youssef’s cancer is dead.
• Madagascar:  I do have the Slaubaughs in Madagascar.  Check out a few of their latest pictures here.

These are all great blogs, but they’re pretty lonely.  Does anyone know of more blogs from these countries?  Help me out here.

Petrich, Bulgaria