Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Basketball, Frog, & Sunday Morning

In the last few weeks we have been as busy as ever. A couple of weeks ago we hosted a basketball tournament with about 90 participants and over 150 in attendance. We've contacted them to join us for an NBA watching party where we hope to build more relationships. This last Saturday we had our FROG meeting with 15 youth in attendance. We watched Nacho Libre on a projector and had a Bible study with them. It was fun and the group is coming together nicely. The day after I preached at one of the Polish Baptists churches here in town. God showed his perfect timing as I talked about spiritual storms during a tough week for the church. Please pray that God would continue to use Erin and I to help people here in Poland.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Kid's Camp

Last week was winter break for the students in Krakow. The church we attend on Sunday mornings, First Baptist, put on a kid's camp for the children. The theme for the week was "Treasure Island." Each day centered around finding different characteristics of God. Many of the kids do not attend our church so it was a great outreach ministry. As you can see in the pictures, we made "mini" treasure islands out of homemade play doh, soap shavings and rocks. Each student hid a small coin in the island then they had to make a map of the island they had just created. Sebastian burned the edges of the paper to make their maps look old. (Of course this was their favorite part). Please pray for the children that came to this camp that they would seek to become more like Christ and that their families would seek as well.

Monday, February 4, 2008

Our Friday Nights

On Friday we had our 4th Coffee House in a downtown hotel. The turnout has been great. We had about 20 people come that were not on our team. About half were just people who came off the street to check out what we were doing. We started many new relationships. The video shows us hanging out with every one. Please pray that God would continue to bring people so we can meet them and hopefully talk to them about what a relationship with God really is.

Auschwitz

Erin and I went to Auschwitz this last week. It is about 45 minutes from where we live. It is hard to describe the experience because it is so unique. Over 1 million lives were taken at this camp and yet it appears so civilized, clean and well organized. As I walked through I knew the history of the place but my senses weren't allowing that history to register. I only took two pictures. One of the familiar fence around the camp and the other of the gate which reads in German "work brings freedom" (a cruel lie to keep the prisoners working hard). I am thankful those times are over but I know that there is still much pain and guilt that comes from them. Please pray that God would heal this country.