The weekend...and not only

Well, the baseball "thing" got rained out.  We knew that the weather had been sketchy but we thought we'd be able to make it.  I even called their league president on Friday to ask about the weather.  He told me it was wonderful, "like Florida".  But turns out that Florida caught a downpour on Saturday morning, as he called back to share that the baseball "thing" was cancelled.  The kids were bummed but we had our normal practice here...with some sprinkles here and there.

The other bit of excitement over the weekend was Father's Day (although a week early by the Polish calendar).  This dad got three great gifts: super-sized Snickers bar, a charcoal lighting tower-thingee, and nice new shirt.  Those are dad-type gifts for sure!  Beyond the gift opening extravaganza we ate my favorites, fajitas and cheesecake (although not together) and went to the park for a few rounds of frisbee golf.  A great day.

Our old friend stress has come back to visit today for some reason.  Not sure why that happens.  There seems to exist some kind of ebb and flow in spiritual warfare...or at least in our opening ourselves up or closing off to it all.  Either way we're struggling with it today.  Pray for us...maybe even now.  We need that.

Looking forward through the week we've got a few big things happening.  First, Ben (aka Piotrek) is turning the big 1-2 this Friday.  Needless to say he's pumped about that.  Second, there's a big volunteer team showing up this weekend that is going to be leading a couple family camps next week with the Roma people near Poznan.  

This project is being led by a friend/colleague from Krakow who's ministry is with the Roma and we're excited that God has opened some doors for them to minister in our area of the country.  We're looking forward to spending a lot of time with them, helping out where needed, and taking gobs of pictures!  I'm planning on doing some interviews and using that slideshow program a lot with these guys...so stay tuned for some hot media ac-shee-one (that's Doug Heffernan for action).