The tale of Multi Media

So the time had come for me to renew my cable and internet package here in Poland. Sean asked me and I took the task on willingly to go and handle, or at least try to, on my own. Now between lack of time and the cable companies’ computer system being down it took three days before I could finally get into the store. Once I did I figured my game plan would go as followed. [Walk in and after greeting them in polish ask if the person helping me spoke English] The plan seemed full proof. And I must add it was going well. The costumer care person even said she spoke a little English…..

But that’s about as far as I got with my “full proof” plan. I very soon found out the “I can speak a little English” really meant that she couldn’t. Now, I had waited in line and now that I finally had a person’s attention I wasn’t about the just walk out. So we spent the next 15-20min. going over cable plans, filling out paperwork and renewing my contract.

That’s right folks… all done in Polish. Afterwards on the way home I couldn’t believe what had just happened. God is so good and so faithful. He always amazes me! He truly answered my prayer. Even if was for cable and internet;)

Tuesdays in Olsztynek

Every Tuesday another lady on the team and myself go to Olsztynek (about 30 minutes from Olsztyn) and teach ESL (English as a second language) to children in an after school program for about an hour. For the next couple of months we are going to be using heroes of the Bible to learn English. So far we have gone over Noah and Abraham. We plan on going over key figures from the Old Testament until we get the main man JESUS. (below: the childern working on their Abraham craft)

The kiddos enjoy coming each week and behave well. Actually this week was the first week without the help of the other two Jmen (gotta give a shout out to my Jessica and Amber!) However, flying solo went very well! Even with no national there the language barrier didn’t cause a problem and I was actually able to communicate everything I needed to.
Along with learning about Abraham this week the kiddos were also excited because I brought candy corn, cupcakes and we made a pumpkin craft in honor of Halloween which it just around the corner. The kids are a blast to be around! Please be in prayer for them.

(left) Łukasz being a little ham for the camera

Brownie fellowship....

For getting to know the ladies in the church we hosted a brownie fellowship. We played games, I did a demonstration to show them how to make brownies (note* they don’t have brownies here) and Lydia gave a devotional. We had an amazing turn out and I think the ladies had a lot of fun! We are going to start doing the ladies fellowship once a month. Next month we are going teach them about the American holiday of Thanksgiving. The ladies requested that we teach them how to make pumpkin pie.

After we played our “party” games we enjoyed homemade brownies and gave away some door prizes’. It was very nice to have the chance to meet the ladies from the national church and our hopes are that next time they will tell their friends and it will begin to be an outreach for unbelievers.