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Sunday, July 09, 2006

English, how we love English!!

Well, 1 camp down 2 to go!!! As exiting as that is it was still hard to say good-bye to the youth group in Wroclaw after we spent a week getting to know them and investing in their lives. So, the entire camp took place in a church and a park right next door. Somedays we hardly left church. Stories, I got to know a girl called Ewa and she and I became friends. She didn't speak very good English and I didn't speak very good Polish, but she was really a sweetheart. We hung out a lot all week and come to find out she has attended a Pentacostal church all her life.
This was the first time that I have ever taught anyone before in a semi-formal classroom and apparently it was good. The first day of class I was extremely nervous and it didn't go so well, they next day after prayer and things the Lord really blessed me and we had a lot of fun in class. The rest of the week it was really good. I taught the upper-beginners which had some challenges, but it was also really fun. They spoke good enough English to be fun but I still got to teach them vocab and do fun things with them. The biggest challenge was that they wanted everything translanted even when they could have understood with time.
The youth group was absolutely amazing. God blessed us with a group that had a heart of servanthood and love for unbelievers. They reached out amazingly when we were too busy to reach out. We wanted to reach out to the unbelievers so badly but this week our team ran camp and God taught us how to lean on him when things weren't what expected or wanted. God blessed us through our service however and got to know the students who are living at the church really well. Some of my favorite students where Marta, Krystian, Michal, Clara, Magde, Tunia. Those where probably some of the funnest most inviting people. Krystian and Michal were identical twins and they were really hard to tell apart, but after the week we started to be able to tell, so that was fun. They were really cool guys. Then Clara, Magde and Tunia were all servants and set the table almost three times a day for the entire week. Needless to say the week was amazing and if you have any questions just write me and I will tell you. I love you all, next week I'm in Skoczow, please pray for that camp that the youth group would build the relationships amazingly and that we would continue to have supernatural strength to do what we were called here to do!!!
Have a great week!!
PS Pray for my parents and that team they leave on Monday and will be doing a camp at the same time we are and so just pray for them and also for my brother as he is home alone without his immediate family for 2 weeks.

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