Couple of stories from yesterday
I told you I'd let you know how our day o' baseball went yesterday...and here you have it...live (at least for me) from Poznan, Poland!
We had a good morning with about 15 kids. Don't know what happened to all of the parents, but our group of adults was super slim. Really the coolest part of the practice was a chance we had to talk to the kids about learning to listen to their coaches when they're running the bases. We explained how they would be bombarded with other voices and noises as they were running...but how they needed to learn to block all of that out to listen to the coach's instruction.
Trying to do exactly what we've been praying for...keeping the ministry focus...we continued on, explaining how that baseball lesson corresponds perfectly our lives in Christ. All to often we go through our days bowing to all of the other voices, all screaming their own instructions. God's voice gets washed over and we sometimes give up listening to Him altogether. So, we have to fight...train ourselves...to focus on Him.
The kids seemed to get this...at least they nodded (what more can we ask for?). This was a victory. Not huge, but a victory nonetheless. We pray for more of those teaching moments in the kids' lives.
Yesterday evening we went over to the Bozydajs' house to have our first baseball "thing". There were just a few kids that showed up...but again, victory. The thing that I'm excited about is how we got to bring the Bozydajs together with another family that's lived in their neighborhood for over 2 years. Even though they live about 5 houses away from each other they've never met. Here's how it went down...
As we were playing ball in the Bozydajs' yard, this woman (Ela) saw me somehow. While thinking, "Is that Michael?" she saw Vicki walk by. She grabbed her phone and sent us a sms saying that she'd like to come over. So, Vicki told her to come on over with her son (who played baseball with us last year). And to make a long story short, this lady and Ewa Bozydaj hit it off and began talking about having each other over to their respective houses for tea or coffee or something. These are exactly the kinds of things we have prayed to see happen!! Who better to reach their neighbors then the Polish believers who live there??!!
So, it was a great day. Even in the small things we can see God working...and it's super exciting to be a part of it!
We had a good morning with about 15 kids. Don't know what happened to all of the parents, but our group of adults was super slim. Really the coolest part of the practice was a chance we had to talk to the kids about learning to listen to their coaches when they're running the bases. We explained how they would be bombarded with other voices and noises as they were running...but how they needed to learn to block all of that out to listen to the coach's instruction.
Trying to do exactly what we've been praying for...keeping the ministry focus...we continued on, explaining how that baseball lesson corresponds perfectly our lives in Christ. All to often we go through our days bowing to all of the other voices, all screaming their own instructions. God's voice gets washed over and we sometimes give up listening to Him altogether. So, we have to fight...train ourselves...to focus on Him.
The kids seemed to get this...at least they nodded (what more can we ask for?). This was a victory. Not huge, but a victory nonetheless. We pray for more of those teaching moments in the kids' lives.
Yesterday evening we went over to the Bozydajs' house to have our first baseball "thing". There were just a few kids that showed up...but again, victory. The thing that I'm excited about is how we got to bring the Bozydajs together with another family that's lived in their neighborhood for over 2 years. Even though they live about 5 houses away from each other they've never met. Here's how it went down...
As we were playing ball in the Bozydajs' yard, this woman (Ela) saw me somehow. While thinking, "Is that Michael?" she saw Vicki walk by. She grabbed her phone and sent us a sms saying that she'd like to come over. So, Vicki told her to come on over with her son (who played baseball with us last year). And to make a long story short, this lady and Ewa Bozydaj hit it off and began talking about having each other over to their respective houses for tea or coffee or something. These are exactly the kinds of things we have prayed to see happen!! Who better to reach their neighbors then the Polish believers who live there??!!
So, it was a great day. Even in the small things we can see God working...and it's super exciting to be a part of it!
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