On Saturday, November 21, on their two-day pilgrimage in Medjugorje, ˝Mother’s Village˝ was visited by a group of 70 theology students from the Franciscan University at Stubenville, Ohio in America. Their student group, which is really 160 students this fall semester, study in Vienna. The priest who leads them witnesses how 120 students celebrate the Holy Mass everyday.

      Father Svetozar met with the group here at ˝Mother’s Village.˝ He said, ˝Our Lady is Mother, and as a mother she wants to care for the spiritual growth and material needs of her children. For that the parish of Medjugorje is here to care for spiritual needs of the pilgrims and Mother’s Village cares for the material needs of those who are in need of help. Medjugorje is really here to awaken every believer how every concrete act of faith, is as a relationship with God. God is not like some forgotten neighbor there in your own apartment who you never communicate with. But that is how many believers today live. God wants to enter into a real, concrete relationship with every one of us, as He also wishes for us to enter into real, concrete relationships with one another. So we grow together in faith and love.˝

On Thursday, November 19th AT 6 PM, we held a meeting for the parents of the children in our day care center. The meeting started with an introductory greeting and announcements by the director of our day care center, Sister Lidija Glavaš and the director of ˝Mother's Village ˝Father Svetozar Krajlević. Following that our parents had the chance to listen to three short educational talks which were given by our day care educators:

Mr. Robert Rukavina, president of a Christian organization Kup-Karmel, organized a pilgrimage to Međugorje on the 18th and the 19th of November, 2009. It was an unusual pilgrimage – for the homeless, for vagabonds and those that are poverty stricken. He found benefactors who provided free transportation, overnight accommodation and food. The Mother's Village responded too to this action. We welcomed these unusual pilgrims offering our testimony and served them a lunch that was prepared by the boys from the Community of the Merciful Father.

In The Children's Village, which is a part of The Mother’s Village, there are 55 children of different age that we support and care for at the moment. The past school year (2008/2009) we had an average grade 4,2 (the school grades are ranged from 1 – the worst to 5 – the excellent) of all our children that attend school. Only six children had final grade 3, and the rest had 5 or 4. Two girls finished the high school. One of them enrolled the University in Mostar Law School, and the other goes to The Language School on the same University. The Children's Village has new children in community this year: the four children from Banja Luka, one girl from Kiseljak and one boy from Ljubuški.

This fall we started the restoration and extending of The Day Care Center. The extending building plans include the enlarging of the kitchen, the replacement of the old roof for a new one which includes the complete roof construction, all because of the history of leaking problems. We also need the new dormitories for the children. The kitchen extendings are finished and we managed to make the foundations with base for the future dormitories by now. This undertaking is forced by the number of children attending The Day Care Center and a lack of space we have, and also with the new laws for the preeschooling organizations in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We continue with our plans and our work supported with our faith in God's providence and good people who will lend us a hand.