As many of you read in my last email, this Easter weekend was spent traveling to the south of Poland for a very special event. Many churches in the area of Katowice cooperated to organize a huge breakfast held in a small sports hall in Park Śląski (an enormous park in Chorzów, Poland).
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| volunteers busily preparing behind the scenes |
We were inspired by this ecumenical effort to minister to the lonely, homeless, and hurting. It was an open event for anyone who didn’t have a place to spend Easter or just wanted to enjoy a breakfast and special program.
Perhaps in the near future, churches in our region will catch a similar vision and God will grant us to opportunity to serve in a similar fashion.
Darek Kawulok and I had the honor of representing the ministry of Covenant Players at this event. It brought back a lot of memories as Katowice was where we performed together 6 years ago in a week-long evangelistic crusade called ProChrist where roughly 1000 people in the stadium gave their hearts to Christ each evening.
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| THE PROXY (by Charles M. Tanner) |
The venue here was a challenge to perform in and an extreme test in concentration because of all the buzz around us. Servers were running back and forth, people were eating and talking, seating was arranged for the purpose of eating -- not watching plays. We could barely hear each other and we were listening for one another more through the speakers than our actual voices on stage. Still, our hope is that the messages of the plays reached those who needed most to hear them.
We performed THE PROXY which is an intense and powerful play by Charles M. Tanner in which a young man considers jumping off a building and a young woman is tested in her faith to prove Christ's love to a stranger.
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| TRANSIT GLORIA (by Charles M. Tanner) |
Later in the program, we performed one of Covenant Players timeless classics, TRANSIT GLORIA. The persistent question of "What do you believe?" and what it truly means to be a believer (which 95% of Poles would claim to be) is a challenge to all.
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| Krzysiek sharing with the spiritually hungry |
Krzysiek answered a huge call and need the organizers had in finding someone who could share a powerful testimony. What better morning than Easter morning to share about how in Christ,he has become a new creation (2 Cor 5:17). It was very touching to see several people coming up to him immediately after he stepped off the stage. They were desperate to turn their lives around and Krzysiek shared more personally with them about how this is possible in Christ. He has a very special gift of ministering to those many would consider a social outcast because he, too could have been counted as one in his life before meeting Jesus.
Besides being a very eventful weekend because of this Easter breakfast outreach, it was also eventful because Saturday marked the one year milestone for Krzysiek and I as a couple. I seemed most appropriate that we were away on a ministry trip — just as it happened a year ago. Last year, one day after beginning our official journey as a couple, we travelled to assist the Elbe Unit of Covenant Players. I performed with the unit while Krzysiek shared his testimony in the church and helped the unit a bit with translation. From the very beginning, we knew we had a call as partners in ministry. :)
(Sorry I've skipped over the month of March in this blog... I went ahead and published this Easter update before finishing the March update because I know that a lot of you were praying for me this past weekend. Hopefully the March at-a-glance review will be out soon too!)
