English in Jemiołowo

Here is our team member Amber Dykes teaching English to some of the kids we work with on Wednesdays. This is in a small village of 400 near Olsztynek called Jemiołowo. Pray for us as we work in this small village.

Alethea had a B-day

Our newest team member, Alethea, had a birthday!!! Happy Birthday Alethea! Send her a greeting at... alethea_thomas@yahoo.com

If it's Thanksgiving Day then it must mean...

Bryan ate too much! WOW, did he eat the whole 32 pound turkey???

If it's Thanksgiving Day then it must be time for...

A GIANT TURKEY! This years bird weighed in at 32 pounds! It was awesome and tasty!

If it's Thanksgiving Day then it must be time for...

BUCKEYES!!! Yes, it's that hap, hap, happy time! Time for buckeyes! If you've never had one, they are wonderful. Chocolate and peanut butter, mmm... Here are the girls happily dipping and tasting! Happy Thanksgiving Day from Team NE Poland! Wish we could share them with you!

Cara in the Snow II

Here is Cara modeling her new winter coat during our snowy walk last week. Everything went geat last week in her testing and her medication has been reduced! Thank you for praying.

Cara in the snow

Here's Cara in the snow. Pray for her tomorrow. She is going to Warsaw for a check-up. We are hoping that we will be able to reduce her medication again and that soon she will be off of medication altogether.

Abby checking out the snowball plants

Here's another snowball plant picture... can you believe they grow like that here?

Snowball Plants Found Growing in Poland

I will bet you didn't know that snowball plants grew in Poland did you? Here's the proof! Sean and Abby captured this photo of the rare Snowball Plant (Iceuspherus Roshlinius) in it's natural habitat. It snowed last night and we all went for a walk today to see the snow. It was beautiful. We will post more pictures later this week. What's the weather like where you are?

Monday Bible Study

This is one of the ladies we meet with to study the Bible on Mondays. We meet in her shop for about an hour to discuss what she has been reading on her own and to study a weekly Bible study that Marcin and I write during the week. This week's study was about the Bible, what it is for, where it came from, etc. Pray for us on Mondays when we are out sharing the gospel.

All Saint's Day Photo Album

Check out the photo album that Bryan put together with the picture taken when we were prayerwalking on All Saint's Day. You can find the album on Bryan's blog here: http://web.mac.com/intemannx4/kojava/All_Saints_Day.html

Jemiołowo

 

Here is a picture of our first meeting in Jemiołowo (Yem-ee-oh-whoa-voh). It was taken with a cell phone so the quality is not that great but you can see Jessica and the kids she is working with! Everyone had a great time and it was a very good first meeting. Pray for our future work in this village.

First Snow

 

First snow of the year! It wasn't too much but it did snow and the kids were VERY excited!

Mondays with Sean

Hi all. Here is a short slide show of my typical Monday. I start out in the morning in Olsztynek working with Pastor Marcin, writing and translating our Bible studies for the day. Then we move to the local market (targowisko) to meet with a young lady who runs the clothing store you will see in the pictures. Next we drive 30 kilometers to Nidzica to do two more Bible studies with two different extended families. We often move on from there to Platyny to lead one last Bible study, however, today we stayed in Nidzica to visit with two poor families and leave them with some food and an invitation to Operation Christmas Child. These families were very poor and living in squalid conditions. You will see a picture of the block building they live in at the end of the slide show as well as photos of the other homes and pictures of the cities of Olsztynek and Nidzica.

New Link Added

Take a minute to check out the links! There are links to teammate blogs and webpages, current weather in Olsztyn and the NEW LINK: Webcam - Olsztyn Oldtown. See a live webcam picture of the oldtown here available 24 hours a day! Want to know what the weather looks like this winter? Check it out here!

All Soul's Day

 

All Saint's Day (Nov. 1) has given way to All Soul's Day (Nov. 2). This is a picture from our prayerwalking last night, it was a cool, cloudy and gloomy evening ending in rain. Today is sunny, windy and cold. Today is the day that Poles go to Mass to have the names of their dead loved ones read by the priest. The hope is that enough prayer and devotion will be made by living family to somehow procure the release of the loved one from purgatory and entrance into heaven. Please pray with us on this day again for the living. Pray that they would set their sights on Christ and what can be accomplished through His sacrifice for their own lives. Pray that many Poles would come to know the living Christ in their lives now!

All Saint's Day 2008

 

Today is All Saint's day, the day when Poles go to the cemetaries to place flowers, light candles and pray for their dead loved ones. We will join them today in the cemetaries and pray for the living. Will you join us?