scott's euro missions journal 2007 #2

ahoj supporters,

Thank you for praying for this time with the gypsy church on Sunday. We had
a great time with this small but passionate group of believers. They packed
about 50 people into a small room that is built onto the side of a gypsy
school. The worship lasted about an hour, and was very up-beat with lots of
clapping and joyful singing. I could only take two students to this church,
but each of them did a great job, Leslie sharing her story, and Robbie
playing his trumpet.

The church welcomed us with broad smiles and many greetings of "dobry rano"
which means "good morning". When i got up to preach i felt so filled up
with the Holy Spirit i was "ready to preach!!" I ended up sharing for
almost an hour...and afterwards we prayed for people for almost another 1/2
hour.

I shared from Mark and talked about the "three legs of faith"

-believe that God exists
-believe He has the power to change anything in my life
-believe He cares about me enough to use His power in my life

This third leg, is the one on which most believer's faith gets shipwrecked.
I also felt God leading me to preach this as well...to emphasize the second
leg of the power of Jesus. Gypsy's are often drawn to the occult and any
religion that will offer them some kind of "formulaic power" . Jesus can
often be lumped in with the other god's...so i felt Jesus wanting me to
impress upon them through scripture Jesus power over -demonic powers,
-sickness, -death, -provision, and even the weather.

We had a powerful time of prayer afterward, and I believe there will be
reports of some healings or some calls to ministry through this time. Thank
you for your prayers, they are having "real time" impact on our missions
trip.

In about 20 minutes we are heading back to this same Gypsy settlement called
Luneck 9 to do an outreach similar to the one we did in the square on
Friday, with music, drama, testimonies and a call to Christ. Please pray
for this outreach tonight as well as our last outreach tomorrow afternoon in
the square.

Tuesday night we will be taking the night train to Krakow, Poland. Please
pray for me as i will be leading this leg of the trip. Bless you all for
your investment in this missions endeavor!!


scott