When in Poland: First Team Meeting

Recently, both the Huntsville team and Birmingham team met for our first official group meeting! We met up at the Cullman County Public Library in Cullman - which was comical considering the size of our team and the size (or lack of) their library! But all was well albeit louder than they would probably prefer. We conducted some research on the economical, political, historical and topographical (!) data of Poland and shared our results with the group. We learned a little about the Solidarity movement which started in Poland and began the decline of communism in Europe and the role that the church had to play in that movement. Poland has a very rich and interesting (and long) history. We were also blessed to have Erin Skrobarczyk present at our group meeting to give some personal experience with the people and culture of Poland.

After our library meeting, we moved over to the famous All Steak restaurant in Cullman to continue getting to know one another and eat dinner. Thankfully, we had our own meeting room where we did "Speed-Friending", prayer time and worship. The Lord gave us some really awesome ideas for ministry in Poland during our prayer time which we are working to develop before we go. Our waiter was awesome and even said he wished he had time to hang out and worship with us - hopefully a taste of the response we'll get in Poland, too! All in all it was a great meeting with good results - one of which David Wolnski put pretty well the Sunday after - "Now I'm stoked to go to Poland!"

Thank you to those who have already been praying for us during our team prep time - God is really showing up in huge ways. A few people have already received all of their necessary support, there have been a couple of big donations to the team fund, AND we've gotten some awesome ideas for our time there. Please continue praying that support will roll in (MORE than enough so we can flesh out some of the ideas we have for ministry), protection from the enemy against anxiety over funds and feeling overwhelmed, our upcoming fundraisers, team building and coordinating team meetings, and that the Lord would continue to show us what he wants us to do while we're there.

Thank you!