Poland Team Info

Hello, Poland Team Supporters!

We are truly overwhelmed by the support our Poland Team has received. In a relatively short amount of time, God has put a team together and raised $18,144.84 to send us on our way for the cause of Christ. So many of you have assured us of your prayers and have said you'll be setting out the "Poland Spring" water bottles as a way to keep us in mind.

Some of you will be interested in getting reports from the field. We're planning to communicate the following ways.

1. Gina, our Administrative Assistant, will be sending out a few brief emails, briefing you of major developments in our trip. These will automatically come to your inbox. For most of you, that is the extent of the detail that you will be interested. James Wartian, our Missions Pastor, will also post these on his Missions Blog. [But you know that because you are already here!]

2. For those of you family members and others interested, we plan to upload video reports, hopefully daily, on Youtube. The most recent video will be enlarged and at the top.

3. We will upload the best of the best photos to my Flickr account for anyone interested.

4. For those of you wishing to leave encouraging messages for our team or post comments on the videos, you'll need to establish your own Youtube username. (Note: to avoid becoming distracted by concerns of home, the team will not be checking personal emails, Facebook, etc, during the camp, so this will be the means of communicating with us.)

Pray for a powerful experience for us, the missionaries Przemek and Julie, the struggling Polish believers whom we will encourage and for the Polish unbelievers who will be hearing the gospel soon! And pray for the remaining $6,485.16 that would come in to complete our full support.

OUR ITINERARY

1/25 (Fri) Team flies to Krakow

1/26 (Sat) Arrive Krakow, Przemek to meet team at airport, overnight in Krakow Hostel

1/27 (Sun) Travel to Czchow ("choove"), camp planning

1/28 (Mon) Camper registration until lunch, camp begins with lunch at 1:30

1/28-2/7 Evangelistic English Language Camp

2/1 (Fri) Day trip to the quaint village of Krynica (home of Zuber Water!)

2/5 (Tu) Ben Ziegler's birthday

2/6 (Wed) Banquet in evening

2/7 (Thu) Camp ends with breakfast, team travels back to Krakow

2/8 (Fri) Debriefing, rest, shop, sightsee (perhaps to visit Auschwitz)

2/9 (Sat) Team flies home from Krakow. Scheduled to arrive in Cedar Rapids at 5:49 pm on United Flight 5858

2/10 (Sun) Poland report for anyone interested at 6:30 pm in the Sr. High room.

The time in Poland is 7 hours ahead, by the way.

Blessings on you all!
Mark Forstrom