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The past several months...

WOW! Where do we begin? The past several months have been amazing in so many ways! The most amazing change in our lives has been our little girl, Sophia! She was born on a cold November day here in Krakow! She is 5 months old now and full of life! What a blessing she is! In February, Mosaic started! Our new coffee house which meets at the YMCA. Our friends with YWAM are the main leaders of this coffee house and we are so excited to be apart of the work that is going on! Many new faces to share our lives with! Compass Coffee House has continued to do well. We average 40-50 university students a week and we have become a real community. Many have started to attend our weekly Bible studies and our International Church. It's beautiful to see the way it has evolved over the past 2 years. God is good. Most importantly, the death of President Kaczynski, his wife and many other senior Polish figures came as a shock to everyone. Please continue to pray for the Polish people that they would find their comfort and hope in the Lord. As we approach our 3rd year here in Krakow, we are looking ahead to see what the Lord has in store for us. Please pray with us as we seek wisdom and insight for our future.

It's a...

This past week Seba and I went to the doctor and found out we are having a baby GIRL!! We are very, very EXCITED!! We appreciate your prayers as we continue to search for a delivery doctor. Enjoy the picture!! Seba & Erin

New Coffee House

Hey everyone! We just wanted to post a couple pictures of our new coffee house location. Thank you for your continued prayers!! Seba & Erin

Update

Hey everyone!! It's been a while since our last post so we would like to update you on our lives!! First and foremost we are having a BABY!! We feel blessed beyond all measure!! Our little one will arrive mid November. Our plan at this point is to have the baby here in Poland. We have a great doctor who we feel very comfortable with but we are still in search of a labor and delivery doctor. We covet your prayers in this. Secondly, we've changed the location of our coffee house. The Lord blessed us these past 18 months in a downstairs room of a hotel but we've grown and the Lord supplied us with a bigger place in a fantastic location! We look forward to all that God is going to do through the upcoming months! Thirdly, we have 4 college students (interns) that will be working with us till August. They will be running the coffee house, building relationships with students, leading English discussion groups and being actively apart of our Bible studies. Please pray for Seba as he leads them this summer and please pray for the interns to have strength and wisdom as the deal with outsiders. Our prayer for them is to live out Col. 4:5-6 this summer. Thank you for your prayers!! We are thankful to the Lord for all He has done and all that He is going to do! Seba & Erin

I'm dreaming of a white Valentines??

This Valentine's Day was filled with SNOW! We were blessed to spend the evening with our friends, Shea and Rachel, who serve along side of us here in Krakow. Just wanted to share a couple of pictures with you of our time out. Please pray for us and our friends as we serve together!

February Fun

Hey everyone! At the beginning of this month Seba and I had the opportunity to take our youth to a place called Tropical Islands which is in Krausnick, Germany (about 50 kilometers from Berlin). This place is an indoor beach that has huge water slides, palm trees, a sea breeze and best of all sand to squish between your toes! We had a fantastic time hanging out with our students and getting to encourage them during this very cold winter weather! We are blessed to have them in our lives! Please pray for us as we continue to minister to them through our weekly Bible studies.

First Coffee House of 2009

God continues to amaze us through our coffee house ministry. Last week we had two of our own perform their original songs. We had a wonderful time and always have great conversation around the table. Please pray that God would continue to move in the hearts of the people here wether it's through song or conversation. Here are a couple of clips from last week. Enjoy!

Happy New Year!

Wow! Can you believe it's already 2009? Amazing! It's awesome to look back on this year and see all that God has done. It's been a blessing to see God work in the lives of so many of our friends here in Poland. God continues to teach Seba and I that we can do nothing on our own but through Him all things are possible. We cling to that as this new year begins. In December my parents came to visit! They were here for the holidays and it was so nice to talk with them in person. Skype is great but there is nothing like being in the same room with your family-nothing like being able to hug them, laugh with them, have coffee together, walk to a castle together, eat together and all in PERSON! It was very special for us to spend time with my parents. Hope you each had a wonderful Christmas and New Year's celebration with your family! Thank you for your continued prayers! Erin & Seba

October Update!

Hey everybody! I am sending this update from Marbella, Spain where Seba and I are vacationing with his parents. This time together has been amazing. Being here near the ocean and the mountains reminds me of how powerful and how wonderful God is. His creation is so breathtaking-so refreshing. This past month was a neat time for Seba and I because Rick White and Jeremy Dane from Cityview Church came to visit. We got to share what's been going on in Poland and how they could pray/partner with us. It was a very encouraging time to feel and see the love that Cityview church has for us. It was awesome to hear our pastors brainstorm different ways to reach the lost here in Europe. We were encouraged by their hearts! A special thanks to Cityview for all the wonderful treats!! We are truly blessed!! Here is a picture of Rick leading our weekly home group Bible study and an interview pic between Seba and Rick discussing how pastors can get involved with ministry in Eastern Europe in general and with our coffee house ministry in Krakow, Poland to be specific. Thank you for your support and prayers!!

September Update

Hey everyone! First we would like to say thank you for your prayers for our Women's Conference. It was amazing! We had over 50 women come and hear our speaker, Frances Worthington share her heart. She talked about how God is not about religion but about relationship and how this relationship is about our fellowship with God every day. She challenged, loved and listened to these women and it was powerful. Praise God she came and was obedient to share! Please continue to pray as we search for a new building. We not only want this for our coffee house but also for all the other ministries we do. We are very excited about this upcoming year and look forward to all God has in store! Below is a video Seba made by using pictures that our teenagers took. This is our prayer as we serve in Krakow that God would be exalted in Poland and to the ends of the earth.

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.

Krakow Tigers

This past month has been amazing! Two members on our team, Mark and Shea, are coaching an American Football team here in Krakow called the Krakow Tigers. All of the players are Polish and have a passion to play football. It has been great to see the relationships that have been built as they work together. In March, we had a team of coaches come from Arkansas to give the players some insight into the game by providing a week long of training. Along with the football training, many of the coaches were able to share their faith with the team all together but also with many of the players individually. God used them in a MIGHTY way and many seeds were planted. We are so thankful for their willingness to come and share their hearts with the team. Please pray for Mark and Shea as they continue to deepen their relationships with the players that decisions would be made to follow Christ. This is the video Seba prepared for the team that they watched at the coffee house on Friday night before their big game day on Saturday!

Did I say that right??

I had the opportunity to share my testimony in the Polish Baptist Church that Sebastian and I have been attending on Sunday mornings. I was nervous but God worked through the nerves and was able to use me. I was unable to share my complete testimony in Polish but I did as much as I could hoping they would understand me through my American accent and thankfully they did. We are so blessed to be apart of a fellowship were Christ is glorified. Please pray that we would be BOLD in sharing our faith to the people we encounter everyday.

Tom Sawyer?

Yes, you read it right, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is popular in Poland. At the coffee house one Friday night I met a girl who is in acting. As we continued to talk she told me that she performs at the Rotunda (the equivalent of Casa Manana in Ft. Worth). Of course the teacher in me went nuts and I asked if I could go to one of her performances. She thought I was crazy but was excited that I asked. So I sat in the midst of 250 fourth graders and enjoyed the show! We talked after the show and she asked if we could get together next week for coffee. Please pray that our relationship would deepen and that we would get to talk more about a personal relationship with God. In the play she portrayed Aunt Polly. Here she is talking with Tom.