A Story of Serving The King: October 2005

Here is Etna.... Our newest house member. She is nice and quite cute...Just kinda Poopy! literaly :)

It even came with Pumkin Pie... With all the whipcream you could put on it. UMMMMMMMM!

Last Sunday was the Polish (and Canadian) thanksgiving. Here Marti made us a traditional Canadian meal... Oh it was soo good!

Alona was really fun to have in class. I have never seen someone sing Father Abraham with so much excitement before! Another kid who is desperate for love and care in Zacrent.

after Class... having fun! Malvina, in the gray sweatshirt, is helping out with the class and I also get to meet with her as she teaches me Polish and I teach her English. I have finally found another person to play sports with! Yes!

Durring english class, We had a new student.. The baby hamster. Ohhhh how cute!

More of the girls from English class. Due to the football match happening... we lost the use of the classroom and met outside. Burrr.

Here is Christian, our fearless translator for english class in Zacrent. He is really good and quite excited to be helping out!

Hangn' with the Zacrent kids. This is after our English lesson/ youth group. (for fun... can you find the Hamster/mouse?)

And here is the lovely view of Ania's and I's block. I just love how it blends so well into the rest of the area. Don't you?

Proof of fall in my neaborhood. This is a clasical one - two family home.

Some of the trees are turning... and some are not. You have to be careful because there is walnuts falling from the trees, and they hurt if they hit you.

This is a street a walk to get to the market. I think it is the clasic European view.

I would like to show you what my town looks like in the fall. Here is a clock that runs and it is made all out of flowers. I can't believe they are still pretty half way through October.

If any of you remember the drawing on the front of my mission panphlet... This is the exact view that the artist used. I found it while on a walk. Notice how low the river is now. Uffda!

The news this week 10-1-2005 to now

Uffda, this week has flown by. It was our first week with all the fall ministries started. Due to lack of origination skills, I didn’t write down my schedule until the end of the week! No wonder I was so tired. It is a full schedule, but so much fun. God has answered the prayers for support in a very creative way, I have a job. I have now been teaching English conversation at a language school 4 hours a week. It is a great opportunity to meet more youth students and I really enjoy being back in a classroom. The pay also helps pay my utilities and rent so more of my support can go directly to ministry needs! Praise God and how he answers prayer.
Last Tuesday, Ania and I went to the Wloclawek city animal shelter and got a dog. She is a beautiful chocolate brown 100% Polish mutt. Ania wanted an animal for when we are home alone, for our running, and for the students to bond with. After a lot of prayer I think God gave us a perfect dog. When we first got her, she smelled worse then a wet sheep and we couldn’t bath her for two days. She also had the typical ailments of a dog from an outdoor shelter that was not fun to deal with but she is really starting to grow on us. Again God answered prayers in an amazing way.
A fun fact: Last week I went to Bydgoszcz, a town about an hour and half away, to meet a friend of a family friend. It was so great to see another Minnesotan here in Poland. Kim also is working with youth and she had great ideas and fun stories to swap. I love seeing how God take care of our emotional needs, like having someone close by who understands northern Midwestern culture.

All I can say is yet again,
“God is so good, God is so good, God is so good, he’s so good to me!”

this weekend we had a big Camp reunion. We envited people who had come to our Family camp to this nature park out side of wloclawek. It was a great time of seeing people again, eating Kebasa and smores, and just having fun! This was the duck who was guarding the pond for us.

This is a tree found in the woods. It was carved to harvest pine pitch.

Durring the corse of the day... The soccer ball would end up in the pond at least 20 times. Each time the students had a more intresting stragtigy to retrieve it. Lets just say, in this weather, striping to their undeware and wadding in only happend once! :)