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Our Croatian Language Class – Two Weeks Done!!

August 24, 2012 By Field Missionary

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In our language class there are 13 countries represented and 15 people!!  We are currently in language study about 3 hours a day, every day, until the middle of June.  We just finished our first 2 weeks and only have 13 more to go!!   😐

So far though, we really are enjoying our language class!!  We have found that learning French has helped us learn another language.   Almost every day in public, we try to use what we’ve learned in class.  We can order at restaurants and can have basic store interactions.  

After 2 weeks of language learning, we know how to say: who we are, where we’re from, how are you,  how we’re doing, what our names are, our age, numbers, what our professions are and how to ask what someone else does.  Our vocabulary now consists of:  20 or so animals, several professions and countries, family terms, basic food items, several other basic and random nouns, like church and walnuts, and important things like how to order a rotisserie chicken!!

Even though we are feeling the weight and tiredness of learning our third language, we have truly enjoyed it thus far, and look forward to the big adventure ahead!!

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Update #16

August 4, 2012 By Field Missionary

Mission Corps Volunteers in Poznan

Meet Dave, Marybeth, and Makayla Giles


We are grateful for the wonderful volunteers who come to Poland to make possible the Sweet Surrender Coffee Shop ministry centers. The Giles family is one of our most recent families to volunteer. I asked Dave to tell us the story of how God led them to this ministry. I think you will enjoy reading their story and will feel better informed as you lift our volunteers to the Lord in prayer. Here is their story:

For many years Marybeth and I have each felt God calling us to work in full-time missions.  For twelve years Marybeth had taught overseas, where she met missionaries and was able to become involved in some missions work.  While I was a pastor in Maine, I continued to feel a pull overseas. After Marybeth and I got married, we both continued to sense God directing our steps into missions. Two years ago, while living and working in Tbilisi, Georgia, in the CIS, we met with Bob Skinner and spoke with him about our desire to work with the Nazarene church and of our interest in coffee shop ministries.  He told us about Rhonda and Ev Tustin, who had started a Coffee Shop ministry in Poland. After traveling to Poland to meet with Tustins, we prayed about coming to partner with them in Poland.  The rest, as they say, is history. We are very excited to be here in Poznan now, fulfilling God’s call to missions! The coffee shop provides the perfect opportunity to meet people socially and get involved in the local community in order to share our faith. 

We have been in Poland now for a short time and are thrilled to be a part of this growing ministry here. We work in the shop and have loved getting to know our team.  We love to think of and discuss various events to host in the shop in order to draw in more people from the community.

In December I helped collect and take donations to a needy family that lives in a village near Poznan.  Marybeth helped organize a visit to an orphanage. We took the orphans Christmas gifts and played games.

We are taking Polish language lessons and using some basic sentences while working in the shop. Dave divides preaching responsibilities at the church with another volunteer. Marybeth does some English conversation with English Club.

In addition to our continuing language lessons, our goal is to begin a conversational English class and Bible study as well as to make a monthly visit to the local orphanage. Please continue to pray for us and our ministries here. It is an exciting place to be, and we certainly feel God’s hand at work. Our prayer is that He will continue to guide and direct our steps as we find ways to minister, build relationships, and share the Gospel here in Poland.

                Thank you Dave, Marybeth, and Makayla, for answering God’s call in your lives to this very special ministry. We welcome you to our ministry team and look forward to all that God will do through you to touch the lives of many people.         –Ev Tustin


Work & Witness Copenhagen
                One of our Poland Partners wrote to me and proposed that if the Partners could come up with the $12,000 needed for materials for a Work and Witness team, he would do his best to field a team to go to Copenhagen as soon as is feasible. The team members would pay their own way for transportation, food, and housing but would need the additional funds for the project as required by Work and Witness. So if any of you could assist with funding some or all of the materials needed, let me know soon and we will help move the Copenhagen Sweet Surrender Coffee Shop forward.
                If you are in a church that would like to field a team, including the materials cost, let me know. I will put you in touch with those who will be scheduling teams for Copenhagen. Katie Fitch, who was instrumental in the development of our shops in Poznan and Krakow, will be facilitating this work. We are praying that the Lord will help raise up many people to participate in this project and push it to completion. Thank you all for your faithful support of the Sweet Surrender Coffee Shop ministry as it continues to expand.
Katie Fitch with a Danish Palace Guard in Copenhagen

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Update #15

August 4, 2012 By Field Missionary

Dear Friends:


We have two immediate “update prayer requests” for you today. Both are pressing needs at this very moment. God is able and so we call on you all to join with us for these two needs:


1.  Snowstorm Strands Missionary Musicians


PRAYER ALERT! 

   Our Gospel Choir Director, Brian Fentress and his pianist, Jacek, went to Bulgaria to do a workshop. They were met by the pastor of the Razgrad Nazarene church yesterday. They are stranded in a blizzard in the Scar between Bucharest and Razgrad. They have not been able to move ahead, roads have been closed. Please pray for safety and the snow to clear. God can make a way…


2.  Sweet Surrender Copenhagen needs our help!

This is today’s email from Katie:

Hi All! 

I updated my blog. Check it out- http://katieraesadventures.blogspot.com
   Things with the youth group have been really good. And things with my housemate I have been trying to work with have gotten better. We have finally connected, and I think that we are moving together in a good direction. But, things with the cafe group are not going as well. We are really at a hard place. We do not have the financial backing to be able to purchase a building. We also are in a desperate need for work teams. Truth is things do not look good at this moment. But, we continue to meet each week and try to figure out how we can pull it off. We are also planning monthly events to invite friends to and invest in relationships with friends outside of church. 

Please pray for us as we try to figure out what we can do to make this possible. Thanks!

Love & Prayers, 

Katie R. Fitch


Thank you all for joining us in prayer for these two needs. God knows the whereabouts of Brian and Jacek. Let’s pray for their safe travel to their next place of ministry.

The second request if for our missionary volunteer, Katie Fitch, who responded to our invitation for her to go to Copenhagen to help pioneer another Sweet Surrender Coffee House. Katie has been very instrumental in establishing our works in Poznan and Krakow. We believe that God has a way, through all of us and many others, to help bring this new outreach endeavor to fruition. Let’s all join her and the Nazarenes in Copenhagen in prayer for this new outreach ministry. And if God shows you how you can be a part of this through gifts or initiating a Work & Witness team to go and help them, so much the better. If you know of people who might be interested in this work but are not part of our Poland Partners, feel free to forward this information to them. God can do another miracle through us.


Finally, thank you all for your prayers in our transition. God is helping us!

Our love to you all,

Ev and Rhonda

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