PIC Serve Sunday: Awesomeness

The Team at Slaughterhouse for Serve Sunday at PIC. 

WOW!  PIC serve Day is something that needs to be adopted by MANY more churches.  What an amazing way to grow the witness of the church and to grow in fellowship with each other!  We had five different groups, at five different locations all doing the same thing: serving the community.  It was awesome to be a part of the “Slaughterhouse” group….and no that is not a horror movie.  LOL.  It is the “old slaughterhouse”, which a friend of mine who works at Fundacje, is in the process of creating a cultural center out of.  It would reach out to the community—especially targeting neglected youth through the Arts.  J  It is really an amazing project, and Marisia has sacrificed a lot and trusted the Lord for all of what she needs and continues to honor the Lord even when things are looking more “half empty” than “half full”.  Her faith in the Lord to provide is …wow, an awesome testimony to anyone who hears about trusting in the Lord and how faithful HE is to provide when He is leading you in a direction.  I feel this project is going to be used in some big ways in the future and it is awesome to be a part of it.

Britt, Marisia and I at the Slaughterhouse!

We got there at 10 am and were busy til 4pm!  There was still work to be done even, but we all  REALLY needed a shower before going to the after fellowship with the other groups.  We were quite…..smelly.  LOL.  We all worked up a good sweat.  I was SO thankful because I had prayed for clouds so that we would be spared the beating of the sun….but GOD!  (My favorite phrase in the Bible!)  Had a better solution!  A perfectly HOT SUNNY day for the activities at the Barak (no trace of clouds!), and yet….there was a wonderful canopy of trees that provided an almost completely shaded area where we were working.  J  So needless to say, we didn’t need the suntan lotion I had bought.  We were chopping, hacking, sawing, mowing, picking up trash, picking up piles and piles of dead leaves and THORNY acacia sticks (those were the worst!) and walking all of the piles to a dumpster in the next compound.  It was GREAT! And we were such a team.  J  It made me laugh when they were drinking…..HOT coffee!  :S  LOL.  Really?!!?!?!  HOOOOOOOT  coffee?  When it is like 80* almost?  LOL.  We got a tour of the inside of the building they are doing all the renovating in.  And even went down into the bomb shelter area that the Germans had built beneath it.  Crazy stuff.  I was really excited because a few of my friends—Marcin and Greg came, who are just my friends…they don’t exactly go to PIC.  Marcin has in the past, but I just asked Greg on Saturday, and he showed up!  So it was real cool.  J 



Marcin, Greg and I waitin for the tram after the
long day at Slaughterhouse and the after party! 
Notice that i am wearing blue,
Greg is wearing red and Marcin is wearing purple....
red and blue makes purple!
 I guess i am the kind of weird person who notices
stuff like THAT.  LOL



Something I will miss tremendously about Poland, is how nice the guys are here.  Like, they are REAL gentlemanly.  It really is amazing how much so.  It seems so strange to me(and silly at times) the ways that they do things, but it is certainly NICE to see guys who have the attitudes and consideration that they do.  Granted, not EVERY guy is like this I am sure, but the ones I have met are very much like this—the ones who are my friends and I have more interaction with.

Man, it is just crazy how five months of a persons life, can feel like….five years!  And yet, feel like 5 minutes!  Because I feel like I have experienced and grown so much, but yet, it feels like I have hardly been here long enough!  I can’t imagine not coming back to this place.  But I can’t imagine what God has for the future for me either.  I feel like there are so many things I want to do and so many things that are possible.  As I was walking home, I was just thanking God for so many possibilities. Just the excitement and thrill of discovering things about myself and about Him and about others these past five months.  But I was also just like, “God!  You cant give me an experience like this and then just turn me loose!  I still need direction because instead of narrowing down options for me, I feel like even more have been opened up!”  I came here hoping God was going to help me see exactly what it is HE wants me to do after I graduate…..lol….yeah, if anything, like I said, MORE options seem to have been opened to me.  I just want to jump to the next thing and prepare for it, but it seems like God doesn’t want me to be able to do that.  Maybe that is why He waits til the right moment to give me His next step.  Because He knows how much I shoot the gun.  If I knew what the future held, I wouldn’t feel the dependence  and reliance I feel on God in NOT knowing these things.

Well, it is late.  It has been a long day.  I took my first “pill” today…I got a headache.  L  Boo-hoo.  But I was out so I wanted to take something for it, since I couldn’t be at home, sleeping, LOL.  Which is usually the only thing that cures my head aches.