Thursday, August 10, 2006

The People of Poland


I was recently privileged to join Greg and a wonderful family from Calgary on a trip to Poland to meet a number of the church planters there and see their church plants.

You see my first trip was into Romania, and there Adam (a CP regional coordinator) and I were working in the infancy stage of the project. Visiting many of the establish churches in Southern Romania and learning about the vision they have for their region. Visiting villages, meeting potential church planters and learning how they are strategically moving forward to seeing churches established in these regions.


Well Poland was much different, although very beneficial for me at this time. In Poland we travelled around to a few church plants and had a chance to meet the church planters and many of the people from their churches. We had an opportunity to hear what God is doing in their lives and churches and how they are not only establishing church but practically sharing God's love to help affect and influence the communities they live in. It was great to meet a number of wonderful and vibrant leaders who have such a passion to see their cities changed not only spiritually but socially as well.


One of the couples has found such influence and favour in their city that the mayor is helping them with the food bank program they are running and wanting to see them expand it, with his help. We had the privilege of running into the mayor on the streets of this city and he thanked us for the investment we have made into their city and Derek and Monica, the Pastor of the church and his wife, and said he was grateful for the ways that it has benefited them as a community.


We also had some opportunity to minister to the churches as Greg preached a couple of time and we were able to pray for an number of individuals involved. It was great to see God allow us to be vessels of his love and minister healing, encouragement and faith into the lives of these sons and daughters of God.



So I have now had the opportunity to see both a project at it's infancy stage and one that has just finished and it has given me a real sense of what we at NLI do and why we do it. It has been great to hear about the influence we have had and how we at NLI have helped to change lives for eternity.

Thank you all for you continued prayer and support. We are very thankful for all of you who are partnering with us to help make this a reality. It is a great blessing to serve along side such wonderful people and help see God establish his life changing power throughout Eastern Europe.

If you would like to partner with us please feel free to email us or view the Partner Information in the side apendix.


We would be delighted to hear form you and give you more information on how we can start that process.

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7 comments:

Just Me said...

Hey-Remember Barett Kropf? He is going to be going back to the Czech soon with his fam. I should let you know when he goes cause I thought I remembered you saying that you know him. If you don't...then disregard this and call me crazy!

MoldableClay said...

ye Jen I do know him, why is he going back to Czech? That would be great if you would let me know when.
Thanks and good thing you are not crazy!

Just Me said...

I wanted to let you know, Ronnie, that my name properly spelled has 2 n's. You may want to change your mind on the crazy part! Barett is going back not with HMI because last time he was there, they left him high and dry...bad experience for the family. It is with another hockey ministry thing. He has written a book on billets/billeting for fundraising. It's interesting, I think.

Just Me said...

I wanna see Barry go cry in his room...make him, please?

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