We have not had much oppurutnity to write updates as we thought we would. Between language school, visiting friends, making new friends, and seeing how God is moving in people here, we’ve been simply exhuasted and going to bed each day we come home. So this weekend provides a nice break from all of that.[…]
Don’t have time to talk much, but we’ve arrived safely, pictures will be coming soon, haven’t had much time to be online so far. Talk more soon!
So, we’re almost on our way, check-in doesn’t start until 10:30, so we’re hanging at home until 10:00. We’re all packed away, ready to head to the airport, so we’re just relaxing, have a bite to eat, and everything so far seems smooth… oh wait, we haven’t left! Look for pictures as we get to[…]
There are no words for me to describe what happened today, our God is so loving. Even though we walk through valleys, even though our closest friends face surmountable challenges, His faith in us does not waver. The favor He has shown us, our work in Poland, and us as a couple, keeps us humbled.[…]
So, God is truly a LAST minute God, I know he always has been, and that wont’ be changing it looks like. We’ve gone from, not sure if Corey and Jenise will be coming to their coming FOR SURE. In the past two hours over $950 has been secured! PRAISE JESUS! From three different donors,[…]
Tomorrow night we will receive prayer from our church as they send us off to Kraków. We are $658 short of buying our last two tickets, and tomorrow night we make the decision as to how we navigate this, as I see it we have the following options. Pay for the tickets, covering the shortage[…]
So we are in a mad dash to get our last two tickets ASAP, for really cheap. We’re on the search for 2 adult tickets from PDX (Portland) to KRK (Kraków). This is for Corey and Jenise, our dear friends who are in our small group. We have about $1400, which is about the price[…]
MSNBC’s World Blog has an interesting entry up about the Polish people who live in the city that will host the US missile shield. There’s a good section about the history of Poland, gives a general picture of what the “mood” of the nation is.
We’re going to Grandpa’s cafe, it’s a Polish cafe in Portland, just below the Polish community association library, and across the street from the Polish catholic church, tonight! Great food, cash only, but cheap! Google’s street view is a bit outdated as it doesn’t show the stairs and door leading to the cafe under the[…]
I just read a very interesting article in The Oregonian, it seems the Portland area christian Slavic community is struggling with integration. One of the comments on the article comes from someone who moved from Portland to Kraków, he has an interesting point of view, although not from a Christian worldview, but fairly healthy. Shows that[…]
We’re VERY close to our next big hurrdle! On Monday we must pay the remaining balance of our airfare on five of the 7 tickets we need. We are short by $406, and we have 3 days, we lose our deposit ($3,370) if we don’t pay the remaining balance by Monday. The last two tickets[…]
CNN is running a week long series on Poland from Oct 6th to the 12th, while we are there!, should be interesting.
Here’s the team (minus Aris from Frankfurt, Germany) who will be going to Poland in October.
Wow, can’t believe we have just 15 days left of fundraising! Yet, we’re a long way off from being finished. Here’s where we are!
This is a very rough count, I haven’t added up all the eggs yet. But we’re around the 56 donors mark. We’re gunna need to ramp this up folks! That’s it, just a quick update, more official news coming soon!
I hope this finds you well. This is a bit longer than I know most of you will read, but I’ll throw it out there anyway, because I believe God will move on this. A while back I asked some Polish friends of ours, this question “How do you think we could effectively[…]
Hey Friends! Well the first (partial) week of our $15 challenge brought in 20 donors! How many more this week? We just need 447 more donors (of just $15, or more), pass this along to your missions friends, family, churches. We have $6,455 more to raise/contribute. Remember this is for the team, not[…]
Emma was dedicated last night, see pictures and read more about it on Travis’ blog.
We’ve had 6 nope 10 people donate or pledge so far and it’s been basically just a day since we started this campaign. Thanks! The amazing (strange) thing is that for the most part some of our largest, and most responsive donations have come from people we don’t have much contact with… now that could be taken as,[…]