A look at history

Sean and I have spent the past few days going around Olsztyn visiting cemeteries, monuments, important buildings, and landmarks, and researching some of the history of this area of Poland in order get a better understanding of where the people here. We can see, in these physical reminders, what was important enough, in history, to memorialize it in stone. Through this we hope to see where these people have come from and to try to figure out if and how these events have shaped and are shaping their reality and way of thinking today. Some of these structures are beautiful, like to castle and the column of the white eagle and some seem to be scars of past occupiers like the many Soviet monuments, and the Communist style buildings and Block apartments. We are praying for wisdom from God about how to reach the people of Northeast Poland with the Gospel. We know that if we ask God he will give it to us, James 1:5.