Prepare School in Gdansk, Poland
I spent this past weekend teaching “Spiritual Warfare” in the Gdansk school. This is the last school before graduation and my last time to teach. Randy will be here for graduation in May. This has been such an excellent school with over 100 students of all ages. Leaders and leaders-in-training. They have been hungry learners and graciously received me and my teaching.
The church here in Gdansk has also welcomed me graciously. I had the privilege of preaching yesterday on the subject of “Learning to walk in the authority Christ has given”. What a precious group of believers.
As seems to be the growing trend, I had some unwanted adventures in flying here. As a result, I arrived 30 minutes after I was supposed to begin teaching and my luggage didn’t arrive until the next afternoon. I had a change of underwear, t-shirt and socks with me though so I was able to clean up and smell decent – hallelujah!
I have some pictures to post , but I’m having trouble with our blogs ability to recognize the Jpeg’s. I’ll post them as soon as I figure it out.
Tomasz Ropiekjo and I walked down to the old city for lunch today. They are still having winter weather here so it was very “brisk” walking. It snowed yesterday afternoon.
The church here in Gdansk owns several buildings that surround the church so that it makes up a kind of Compound with a parking lot in the center “square” area of the buildings. One of those buildings houses the church offices downstairs and then there are two more stories that have apartments. One of the apartments has a suite that they use for guests so when we come, we have a place to stay right next to the church building. It is an old style building with 12 foot ceilings and large ceramic heating stoves. Out my window the trains go by every few minutes like clockwork and I can see the old city skyline a half-mile away. There is no doubt I’m in Europe.
dbrown says:
Mar 21, 2010I haven’t been to Kaliningrad, but am sure that our relationships will eventually take us deeper into Eastern Europe. Today I spoke with a man from the Ukraine and was even reflecting when we will have an the ability to begin travelling further east. Right now we have working relationships in Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Albania, Slovenia, Croatia, Belgium, Holland and the U.K. So incredible to learn from so many cultures.
I pray that you have opportunity to travel back there and perhaps renew relationships.