a busy few days

hello everyone,

the last three days have been quite busy and rewarding. this is our last day in krakow poland. it is such a beautiful city and the people here have been so nice and friendly...i will miss it. we are doing some last minute errands before an outreach in the park we will be doing for a local church. the outreach is at 4pm and then they have a grill party (bbq) at 6pm.

tuesday: we went back to the same group of high rise apmts as monday. it was gray and cool today, so there were not many people out. but we gave away free books, and the sound system was quite loud, so we even had people come out of the apmts to get the free books. later we went to a jr. high class where the kids were learning english. we had fun hearing the kids broken sentences. later we broke into small groups and i met with two fifteen year old girls, they did more giggling than they did speaking in english, but it was a fun way to tell them about us and why we are in poland. afterward we went to a homeless shelter where 30 guys were packed in. we did worship and our team leader curtis cole (mt. chi alpha director) preached a powerful sermon about being filled up with the power of God. then we spread out and prayed for the guys. it was very nice...but quite a long day.

wednesday: we went back to the aptments, but we just played basketball and sat and talked with people. we thot this was a good way to try to build on what we had done the previous day. i met many guys including one from moldova named sergei. i got to pray for him as well. later in the evening we met with the 2 polish christian groups. they are called "impact" and "petra" (petra is the polish version of chi alpha). we worshipped together in polish (there were about 25 poles and the fifteen of us.) then i got to share a message about imparting good spiritual gifts into each other. i used paul's words to the romans in romans chapter 1. it seemed so good since paul had not met the roman church when he wrote that letter, and we had not met many of these poles until that night. afterward we broke up and walked around and listened to each other's testimonies. i walked with a girl named eva. she has a very confident personality and really feels the call of the evangelist (desire to lead people to christ). she wanted to move more in the prophetic. i am fairly good at moving in the prophetic, but i wish i had more ability to lead people to christ. (i tend to be more of a discipler than and evangelist)...so at the end of the evening i prayed for her and she prayed for me. it was beautiful.

thursday: we hopped on a bus with people from one of the churches and drove for two hours. all the churches in the southwest of poland met for a one day crusade. about 600 polish christians were present. it was great to see that god was moving so strongly here. the worship was powerful. they sing many of the same songs as we do, so i just sing in english or sing in the spirit, or make up my own words...and i really get into it. then we had some polish girls come with us and they translated for me what the preacher was saying. on the bus ride home many of us got sick. we are all quite tired and the driving in poland is quite wild, so many of us went straight to bed when we got back.

my heart for eastern europe continues to grow...i love these people...and their heart for christ...and the sacrifices they make for his kingdom...

tata, scott