Busy as Always...

Today is officially the "First Day of Spring." It's been snowing ALL DAY LONG! ;) For months we've had no snow...just consistantly cold temperatures, but it started snowing yesterday and hasn't stopped since. However it hasn't really stuck much because the sun is out so it just melts right away, but nonetheless...we have snow. :) Now when I'm ready for spring to be here. Oh well, I'll take snow over rain & wind any day!

Things have been busy here, but really good busy. We have had three incredibly sucessful Friday nights at "The Well." It's become one of our favorite parts of the week...but makes for a very long Friday! This week we're taking a break because it's Good Friday and our students have all gone home to celebrate and be with family. In addition to The Well, we have meetings here at the flat on Wednesday nights called: "Deeper Waters." The past two weeks we've had about 6-7 students! That's GREAT! These are students who missed The Well on Friday night and want to rewatch the video and students who were there but are wanting to talk more about what they saw. We had a GREAT meeting last night. Each Wednesday night I cook dinner and dessert for our students, we enjoy a meal together and then rewatch Friday's video and that has lead into really good discussion each week. I can't explain how we've seen the Lord bless this ministry! We couldn't be happier with the outcome. :) Wednesday nights are my favorite because I LOVE LOVE LOVE cooking dinner and dessert for these students and making them feel at home. One student in particular has a job as a postman and for about the past month his only meal on Wednesdays have been the meals that I've cooked for him...before we knew exactly what his job entailed, he called me and said, "I'd love to come to your Nooma meeting, but I've had a long day and I'm very hungry. Nooma would be good food for my soul, but if you could prepare some food for my body I would be grateful." *lol* So from that night on I've prepared dinner each Wednesday night. This student works 12 hour shifts a day and DOESN'T get a break for lunch...or a break at all. Incredible. Anyway, this is what I love to do. :)

This week is "Recollection" week in our high school - Teczowa. This is where we lead English Clubs every other week and we are in very good standing with the teachers and director of the school. The religion teacher asked us last month if Scott and I would prepare an EVANGELICAL concert for this week. In a public school....holy cow...what a wide open (and frankly- scary) door! Teenagers can be brutal...especially the ones here. But we said "yes" and Scott, Dawid, and Andy put together an incredible program! The day before the students had a similar assembly, but it was put on by a local Charasmatic Catholic church and lasted for 4 hours. 4 hours of charasmatic praise & worship and testimonies. Our program lasted 45 minutes. Scott had the idea of presenting the Bible as a love story and picked out 7 songs that went along with what he was wanting to say. These three guys gave a GREAT concert and the stories that Scott told inbetween each song went perfectly. It was honest, relevant to their lives and no "churchy" words were used that nonbelievers wouldn't be able to understand. We did use some Derek Webb...and that made us happy. (Though we would have gotten kicked out of the school if we'd done this in the States.) The lyrics were edgy and strong...but so honest and relevant. It was a beautifully constructed program which could only come with a Devine inspiration. I'm pleased, as were the guys, Wojtek, and Basia - the religion professor.

So something real fun! We suprised Lauren this week with - HER MOM! Yep! Sneaky people we are. Her mom had secretly bought tickets to come to Poland and let Scott & me know. We picked her up from the airport on Tuesday and brought her to our flat where Lauren was "meeting us for lunch" COMPLETELY oblivious to the fact that her Mom was in the country. It was fantastic. Here's her reaction. :) Listen closely!

I love suprises. :)

Also one more fun thing...not quite as exciting, but I'm having fun. I'm learning how to knit! I'm in the process of making a scarf right now, but I love it...and it's pretty darn addicting! :) I love the yarn that I picked out...but I think I should have started with some thicker yarn. Oh well!

Okay, well Happy Easter to you all! We'll be spending it with our church and we'll be having a big Easter Dinner at Wojtek & Aga's with Lauren and her mom and Andy. It should be a good time. We're thinking about taking the Monday & Tuesday after for a short trip to just get away for a couple days. Maybe going to Warsaw since we've never been there. We'll see!