Communication at last! As you can guess, our internet access is limited to none. We have found a spot in the town square that, when the weather is fare, we are able to connect. Hopefully contact will be more frequently after this point.
To sum up the last few days: Things are going VERY well! Even though we are half way through our trip, we have only had one day of camp with 7 ahead of us.
We had an awesome church service this morning which Tom spoke at. Worship was an incredible experience. Instead of only have polish worship, they sang all songs that we both knew and had the english and polish on the powerpoint. The american team was singing in English and the polish in polish. Just a GLIMPS of heaven. When every tribe and tongue and language will sing holy holy holy is the Lord God almighty....An emotional experience for all. Which became more emotional when the church members started cheering at the thought of us returning next year as they all had tears in their eyes...I think its safe to say that a definite bond is beginning to be formed!
Day 1 of camp couldn’t have run more smoothly. We had three more campers than we thought we were going to have which brought our number of campers to 33 with two more coming later this week. This is way above and beyond the number of campers we were expecting. Praise God! I think we can successfully name every camper at camp (between the 11 of us) and have started relationships with many of them. About 10 of them are from the church youth group and we had a chance to start relationships with them on Friday. They are a great group of students and actually know quite a bit of English so we have had a BLAST getting to know them , teaching them the fine art of hacky sack and throwing a football, and working on our camp song together.
Things to be praying for:
-The students who know little to no English. They seem to be having a great time but we can not have a translator with them at all times so I know they are lost frequently. I can’t imagine being in their position.
- renewed strength for both our team and for the campers!
- That the message of Jesus Christ would be preached daily and clearly both through our actions and through the speaker of each day. Here is our list of speakers if you want to know who to pray for what day.
Sunday- Eric
Monday- Tom
Tuesday- Rick
Wednesday- Abby
Thursday- Tom
Friday- Eric
Speaking with a translator is a new thing! Also, Abby, Claire and Jess will all be sharing their faith stories throughout the week.
Running low on time as I have to get to church, but thank you all so much for your prayers and your love! We definitely feel them every morning when we rise and throughout the day!
Much Love…
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