August Update

Hey everyone!! Just wanted to give you an update on what has been going on this past month! The first week of August we had a team from Charleston Southern University come to Krakow and do a sports camp for kids/teens during the day and in the evenings the CSU team played exhibition games against Polish teams. The coach, Barclay Radebaugh, was an amazing example of how to serve others and share Christ's love with boldness. The theme verse for their week was Matthew 20:26-29 and the players did a great job serving the people of Krakow. On Friday night at Coffee House, Seba was able to interview the players and ask some funny/serious questions of them and the Coach was able to share the Gospel. It was a great time hearing their hearts. We were blessed to have them here and excited about the doors that have been opened because of their willingness to come and serve!! Also this past month, Seba and I, along with our friends who are serving here in Krakow were able to go to another city, Wisla, to have a three day retreat. There we were able to evaluate this past year and plan for the upcoming year. We also just had a great time of fellowship and exploring the city!! We rode a ski lift to the top of a mountain, then walked about 20 more minutes and made it to the Czech Republic border and in the picture is the view!!

Volunteer Group from Georgia

This week we had a volunteer group here from Georgia. We had the chance one day to advertise for coffee house in our downtown square and we thought we'd grab some attention by making a video and here it is!

LA Tech Group

Thank you so much for praying for our time with 18 students from LA Tech. They were here for three weeks and they did so much. They helped us so much with Coffee House and the International Church. Their two greatest projects were a day camp in a school and campus blitz at one of the universities here in Krakow. At the day camp they taught English using Bible stories and got to meet students and parents. On campus we had three culture exchanges. First the group taught country western line dancing (over 400 people came), next was karaoke and finally was a rap concert by Kola, a Polish Christian rapper. The group was incredible at building relationships with Polish young people and sharing the gospel through that relationship. We have so many good contacts for our family and university work. We thank the Lord for such good volunteer groups and for your prayers this summer. Thanks!

How Coffee House Works

I wanted to take this chance to explain how Coffee House works. Erin and I help set up a Coffee House once a week. We don't have our own building, we rent a meeting room from a Hotel every Friday night and serve the hotel coffee there (which really isn't that good). But people don't come for the coffee. They come to be a part of an English speaking environment. We invite American and local artists to perform at the coffee house and interview them in English. We guide those interviews into spiritual conversations. American artists spend time inviting people from the city center. Local artists invite their friends. So we have a crowd for a few hours and our people get a chance to meet them, get to know them, and share the gospel with them. Every Friday, at least one of us is able to share our testimony and invite someone to either church or Bible study. But all this happens at the tables in a natural conversation, not from a presentation from the microphone. We're always looking for musical artists but also for painters, poets, and actors. If you are interested in our Coffee House ministry just contact us. We would love to talk to you about it. Please pray that God will continie to bring new people.

Hey everyone! We can't believe we've already been here for over 7 months! It has been amazing to see God work in so many different ways since we've been here. Today is an important day for us because our first volunteer team for the summer arrives. We will have 17 college students from Louisiana Tech here for 3 weeks and they will be doing some day camps and university campus outreach. We've been busy trying to schedule their three weeks here but God has done some truly amazing things. Erin and I have started a second Bible Study with young adults. God is doing so much in this group. Please pray that He will make everyone in our group into fruit bearing Christians. Here is a picture of them. We also have received two summer missionaries that will be working for the Coffee House ministry. They are great. Thank you for your prayers and make sure you look at the schedule to the right. It would be a great prayer guide for our projects.