The Big Picture

This afternoon I was sitting at icafe (the coffee shop in our church). I was doing some planning while I was waiting for us to do adult testing for our adult language school. Our big director over the whole organization stopped in. We began talking about this new teaching opportunity for Lodz. We laughed because we both know it will be more work. The really cool thing is that he explained to me some of the behind the scene stories that I had no idea about. Then we talked more about it and it brought the whole thing and more work into perspective. I love when I get some of that. ;)

The lady who asked our organization to come to Lodz is a lady who use to come to our english classes in Tomaszow! She is someone first hand who has worked with us here and is opening up a door there. I think that is awesome and shows God's work building relationships here. The head director also told me that as they have been planning on a ministry in Lodz to start in a few weeks, teaching english was never a plan for how they thought they would start their ministry! It's nice to see that God stepped in and has opened up doors in ways we/they haven't thought of! While we've been overwhelmed with s

chedules and the increase in work. Just after we had the meetings to decide on all of this we received two emails from people in America who have said they'd like to come to Poland for 2 months to help with english if we could use them. Just what we would say was "random." I was praying, as were our leaders, and I know many of you were too! And we will be given some help! While I know that doesn't exactly change my wo

rk load. When I do need to be away from one school or another I know that there will be coverage and good coverage at that. :) To be honest this has helped with my attitude. I have been worried. I know this is a great opportunity and I've wanted to be excited about it but all I could see was the amount of stress and work this was causing right away. Now seeing how God is working and that is in this and paving the way for us I really am excited and feel much better about working so hard. Does that make sense? I'll admit it hasn't been and won't always be easy BUT there is a different peace about things when you know that you aren't forcing something to happen and hoping God will bless it. :) Thanks for all the continued prayers!

By the way I am meaning to load up some pictures...I have them on my camera but I have been lazy and haven't plugged in the camera to my computer even though it's sitting right next to it. :) I will soon. Here are a few pictures for the mean time that I've taken with my phone. :)...