And So The Darkness Begins

We had the end of Day Light Savings on Sunday. I was thrilled to have an extra hour of sleep, but now, the sun sets a whole hour earlier. That is around 4:40pm now. This time every year I am reminded how much a really dislike Polish winters. This is the time when I am stretched and pulled and I see God strengthen me in ways that I do not see when the sun is shining.

I have a meeting with one of my favorite people tonight! At the mall and with COFFEE!!!! Life is good even when it is dark! :)

Faces of Poland 2.0

This summer I had a wonderful time meeting and working with Polish and American youth. It was an amazing time. I learned so much about this generation, storytelling, and God. I was sidelined for a time with my fractured shoulder, but I also got a front row seat at watching both Polish and American youth learn more about each other, God and themselves. Thank you for praying!

Here are the faces of Poland 2.0!

Wonderful Meetings

I noticed that it has been a little bit since I wrote. I have been more than blessed by getting to watch the Broncos play. I am right now typing and watching the 3rd quarter of MNF. Someone here told me that the Broncos are now 6-0, so I know we won, but I don't know the score! WHAT A GAME!!!!

Anyway, I have had two weeks of meetings with young women and our youth group. It is exciting to see Majka become our youth group leader and to walk along side her as she is leading and loving our youth group. Last night we talked about clothing and why do we wear what we wear. At first glance, it may sound stupid, but then we went into our identity in Jesus and the heart that is more important than the clothes we wear. It was a great discussion!
For the past few weeks I have been meeting with Ania. This young woman has come from a really rough background, and yet her heart is bright with the love and strength of Jesus. Tears filled my eyes this Sunday as she completed her declaration of following Jesus, by being baptized. Our time is filled with drinking coffee, talking about life, learning how to study the Bible and prayer. I love this young lady! What is great too, is it is mostly done in broken POLISH! She understand enough English so when we need it, we break into it.
I must confess that I am still struggling with Polish, but little by little am getting it. I just wish I could wake up tomorrow and speak fluent Polish!!

A Little Bit of Home

I miss football! It has been a part of my life in America! Poland has no idea how wonderful the game is! Slowly but surly I am trying to introduce my neighbors to this American past time!

Yesterday the Broncos played the Cowboys and won! What was even more wonderful was that I got to watch the game LIVE with my family! They were in Denver and I was sitting in my flat in Poland! We were able to watch the game together (except for my bro, Bill. He got to go to the game, the bum :) ) as if we were in the same room. There was a two second delay in their game feed so I saw everything before them. It was fun to just sit there and talk about the game with my dad. Something I miss. How did we do it? Well, it turns out that ESPN has an international cable station and the games are live on Sundays and Mondays. That means though I had to stay up until 1:30am but the game was well worth it!! Thank you Broncos for making the game so exciting! I hope to see more games, but the Broncos are not on the "gotta see" list. The only reason why their game was on was because of the "Almighty" Dallas Cowboys. Broncos 4-0 and still NO RESPECT!