It’s been a couple of weeks now since we returned from Poland, and at times it feels as though we were never there, which deeply saddens me. Then other times we seem to have such grief it’s hard to move on with life here. We go back and fourth as if on a see-saw and[…]
There’s many place on the Internet to learn about Kraków but Wikipedia’s article is pretty good, if you wanna know more about the place where Alexis and I will be living in just under two years, take a look, interesting history, and much more. Also, we’ve been looking around at different neighborhoods, and this past[…]
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, 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 Google’s street view is a bit outdated as it doesn’t show the stairs and door leading to the cafe under the[…]
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.
As you can tell, there is much to do around here. This blog will be for Alexis and I to write our thoughts, ideas, upcoming events, current events, etc… all about our Poland missions. Stay tuned for more information. For now you can visit Travis’ blog. Thanks!