A Certain Woman in Eastern Europe

My dear missionary friend, Tammy Swailes and her Pastor Lena invited me to the 20th Anniversary of their Church in Zhitomer, Ukraine. I flew from Rzeszow to Kiev and had a wonderful time!!! It was especially fun to see how how the young ones in the family have grown and to meet the new dog who has captured everyone's heart! It was a testimony of God's faithfulness to hear the history of the church and to come together for a celebration complete with wonderful food. We were so blessed!!! First stop - Sushi for lunch with Pastor Lena & Tammy Warmly greeted by Maxim, Lena's grandson & Tammy's Godson Ura and Lena - so enjoyed their garden! Tammy is becoming even more well known in town as she walks with the dog in his bag! A little time to sight see See the pure joy and celebration?!! Pastor Lena & Ura were greeted by all and honored with songs, poems, prayers and flowers and a skit put on by these fabulous and cre

#1 - On March 14, at the immigration office in Krakow, I applied for my residency. Despite having applied on an outdated form, and even with needing another letter from the church, we completed the visit in 45 minutes. They said the decision would be made within 2 months. On May 12, I received news they had granted me a 3 year residency permit but the card would need to be picked up when ready. 2 days before we had to take Mikhaila and Veronica back to the airport, we received the call to come in at any time so we planned it for the morning of the girls flight on June 16.  Here is a glimpse of the card and a photo from our celebratory lunch at Market Square in Krakow. A must see area for tourists. So blessed and grateful to God and the Church here in Tarnow and my wonderful Pastor Jan (Basia) Skarbek and our assistant Pastor Michael Wielgus, admin extraordinary!! Photo bomber, Jilly & Mikhaila The girls celebrating, Veronica, Jilly & Mikhaila Pastor Michael W

Mikhaila returned from Ukraine and the youth planned a paint ball competition for her & Veronica, And of course, since the weather has been so nice we've had a number of wonderful BBQ's! Mikhaila & Jilly Jacek, Marek (visiting from Ireland) Pastor Jan                                                                             BBQ                                                                   Paint Ball Choosing carefully! Band of Brothers Youth leader - Peter Mikhaila Gabi, Natalia w Veronica  Peter and Benjamin The new recruits Veronica & Mikhaila Natalia (with Sylvik photo bombing) Jacek/Jack Fierce Warriors Our General Skarbeck and his Chief of Staff Mikhaila is already! Symon, Jacek, Gabi Mikhaila & Bejamin  Julia Pastor Jan & Oliver As you can see, we are serious about our Paint ball and our BBQ's

Life in Poland continues to be blessed, consequential, divinely inspired and full of joy and fruit! Our Pastor received a prophetic Word about his heart and love for Poland and Polish people and that he would be sending people out as arrows. He had already been going to Ireland but now we go regularly. We also have university students in various locations and I was asked to head up an outreach in Krakow to the medical university and we started that and will continue in the fall and probably add another city as one of our newly saved students is very zealous and evangelistic and has amazing results! We've added a leaders meeting/prayer meeting at my place every Monday evening and that has been powerful and prophetic! Tuesday afternoons has been Conversation English in my place, taught by me. How I love that class especially as I have some seriously motivated students. Wednesday evening is our midweek service and I sometimes bring a Word of encouragement. Thursday eve we ha