hello from poland

hello everyone,

i am writing you from an internet cafe in krakow, poland. they have a beautiful and big market square here. we have about an hour of free time so i found a small internet cafe in the upstairs room above a sunglasses shop. it is quite beautiful today and so it seems the whole population of poland is out in the square soaking up the sunshine.

we got our first taste of public transportation this morning. two staff girls and myself took a tram to a church about 10 miles from our hotel. (the main leader curtis...took the six students and went to a different church about 20 miles north.) Whle they were doing a skit and curtis preached, we hopped on a tram and took it till we got to "ronald reagan park"...no joke...i guess they feel he helped end communism. the church met in the second floor of a cultural building. the girls shared about why we are here and i sang a song...a guest pastor from wyoming was there, so he preached. the song i chose was "holy and annointed one". i warmed the crowd of about 70 people up by saying "good morning" and "merry christmas" in polish. the latter gave them quite a chuckle and then they joined with me as i sang the "jesus, i love you...i love you" part at the end of the song...it was very nice.

it is a beautiful thing to be in a service with other believers from around the world...they speak in a different language, but we are worshipping the same God...it makes God even more beautiful to me.
when we got done and finished talking to as many people as i could...we hopped on a bus for the ride back. unfortunately the route was bit different and we missed the turn off to our hotel (by the way our hotel is a student hotel near the University of Krakow...so we will meet many students during our time here.)

so after missing the hotel...we realised we were not where we should be so we got off the bus. i located that we were two miles from our hotel...so jess, who is fluent in russian, german and english, attempts to talk to an old polish man to get directions. the old man was quite nice, but he just sputtered in polish, of which jess only caught about a tenth...well as that conversation bogged down, a young kid with a shirt that had some german flag patches came up and tried to help. he knew a bit of english and got us going, but then he ran out of words...the muttered, "if only you knew german..." jess said i do...and they proceeded to talk in german for the next five minutes. well we found the right bus and tram to take us back to the hotel... but it all made for quite a fun adventure.

well i'm going to send this message...and type some more.

tata....scott