Prophetic Intercession

We have recently returned from helping to lead a 10-day short-term mission experience in Krakow Poland with a small team of 16-22 year olds.

Just before we left we spent some time praying and asking God what He wanted us to do while we were there. We all felt that the main reason for us to go was to pray and worship in the city, to lay foundations in the spiritual. The great thing about the team we went with was they are all creative, and can all sing (and Harmonize).

Our times round the city were amazing, as we walked round we would sing worship, which at first seemed hard, but as we kept doing it, it got easier. We even had people thank us for bringing Joy as we walked. We also spent time praying at different places round the city that we felt were key places. A few of the team are incredible drawers and so would pray and then draw the things God was showing them.

It was very interesting to see how things changed over the time we were there. Everything seemed really hard and heavy to do for the first few days. But as we were faithful to what we felt God had asked us to do, we found that it got easier to pray and walk round the city, and people became much more open to talking about Jesus with us.

One thing that I have both been taught and learned practically in the last few years is that everything starts in prayer, and if you want to see things change and God move in a place then you have to start by giving Him space and listening to Him and being obedient. The guys we were with all came back with a very different view on how to do mission and the value to prayer and submission to God. It was a really great 10 days.

Night Walk

We helped to lead a short-term mission trip for 16-22 year olds to Krakow in Poland earlier this month. We did a number of different things while there, one of which was going out in the evenings and talking to people about whom Jesus is and what he did.

On one of the evenings we were out me and one of the other guys on the team got to talk to a couple of different people in the main square. The first was a guy who was studying to become an actor. We got to chat for about half an hour and got to share with him about Jesus and what he did. We gave him a little picture that we had made on which were the words Jesus loves you in Polish, which he really liked.

The other guy we got to talk with had not been to church in about 10 years. Even though he had grown up in church he had never heard that God wants relationship with us and that Jesus loves him. We got to talk for a while and when we parted ways he said he was going to go home and spend some more time thinking and that he would probably spend time praying before he went to sleep. The thing that challenged him most was that 2 people from England had come to his town and wanted to tell him that God loved him.

We all had many different conversations that had a similar theme during our time, and got to be apart of God showing himself to the people we met. It was a really amazing trip, and we were all challenged a lot in our own faith and why we believe what we do.

Afternoon Drama’s

We have just returned from spending 10 days in Krakow Poland helping to lead a team of 16-22 year olds on a short-term missions experience. One of the things we did while we were there was street drama.

We spent some time asking God what we should do and where we should do them. In the end we practiced and did 3 different dramas around the castle. When we prayed and asked God about them, he told us we were making a declaration of freedom for the place, and that we did not need to worry about doing it for other people.

After we had done the second drama a number of people had stopped and started talking to us asking us to do it again, so we did. It was great fun and the group watching ere really enthusiastic about it, even shouting out when Jesus came on, and when we finished they cheered. It was really nice to talk to them afterwards about who Jesus is and sharing with them the gospel and why we had come to Krakow.

The whole team were really nervous about going out and doing street drama, but we all felt that this is what God had asked us to do so we wanted to be obedient above our fear. It was a great lesson for us all to learn, that when we step out in faith in what God has asked, all sorts of interesting things happen, and conversations about Jesus happen easily.

Grzegorz (Greg)

We have recently spent some time in Krakow in Poland helping to lead a small team of 16-22 year olds on a short-term mission experience.

Near the end of our time we decided that we should go out for a meal as a team so a couple of us went to find somewhere to eat. We asked God where to go and He led us to a restaurant close to the centre of town. It was a great meal and the waiter that served us was a lot of fun. We got to talk with him quite a bit about who we were and what we were doing in Krakow, that we were there because it is where we felt God ask us to go. At the end of our meal he asked us to pray for him. His name was Grzegorz (or Greg in English).

We spent some time praying for him as a team and listening to God about whom he is and what God wanted to say to him. We then made a large card for him and wrote and drew the things God showed us. We then took it to the restaurant for him the next day.

It was really nice to meet him and get to pray for him, and the team all really enjoyed the way God connected us; and then the chance to be able to bless him. It was a really nice way to finish our time in Poland.

School Cleaning

We have just returned from Krakow in Poland having helped to lead a short-term mission experience for 16-22 year olds. One of the things we got to do was work with a local church to help to clean a school that had been vandalized.

We spent our time painting over graffiti and cleaning up the grounds. This was the first time that the church had had an opportunity to work in the school, and they will be running a family day in the grounds at the start of August. The hope is to be able to do much more in the local community through the school in the future.

It was a great day and every one really enjoyed the opportunity to serve the school and local community. The team helped to open a door for church to be able to do more in partnership with the school for the local area.  It is real blessing to be apart of the start something, to plant the first seeds, and we are really looking forward to seeing what comes out of this.

Just Go...

We have just finished helping to lead a short-term missions experience for people of the ages 16-22. Altogether we had 23 go to 3 different nations in Europe (Poland, Serbia and Romania). People came and spent 3 days here at the Youth With A Mission (YWAM) base, having teaching and orientation before spending 10 days in the country they applied to go to. After this we spent another 2-3 days back at the YWAM base debriefing.

Christy and myself helped to lead the team that went to Poland, and spent our time in the city of Krakow, which was the capital of Poland about 300 years ago. We were 8 in total, split evenly boys and girls.

It was a great team to lead as everyone was so willing to seek God and do what they felt He was saying. They were all quick to worship, so much so that when we would meet as leaders to talk about the day and pray for the team, we could hear them next door finding worship and praising God.

We saw God do so much in each of them individually as well as in the city of Krakow. They each grew and took hold of what God was teaching them quickly and willingly. They all came back with a new view of who they are, what it means to know God and what it means to do mission as a life style, not just an experience. We both felt very privileged to have been able to be apart of this season in their lives.