Amen!!

Today, I was a NACer again :). Except this time, in Poland.

I haven't been to a service in almost two months, and I was really getting bothered, not to mention sad. So one day while I was talking to my NAC friend, Armin, from Warsaw, he told me about a youth service in Ostroda. Unfortunately I can't travel by train alone in Poland while i'm under the wings of Rotary, and Ostroda is 200 km away from Torun, about 3 hours by train, so obviously my host mom said no.

But! Then I spoke to Daniela, the daughter of Bishop Starosta, and magically (well, i wouldn't say magically ;), everything worked out, perfectly. The rector from my closest congregation had to travel to Ostroda on Sat. morning for a brothers meeting. He offered to bring me with him. Then it just so happened that on Sunday, the

Bishop had to hold an afternoon service in Wabrzezno, the nearest congregation to Torun, so he gave me a ride home after this service. So after not being in one single service for 2 months, I was in 2 services in one day! Funny how things work out when you pray ,huh? Bishop Starosta is great, here he is during the opening prayer in Wabrzezno, which will be my home congregation. The Rector of my congregation is the other brother in the picture. He doesn't speak English, so during the 2 1/2 hour car ride to Ostroda we spoke in Polish about everything from NAC to Russian Communism :) I love Polish people. Anyway, the youth group is great in Poland, although I haven't had the chance to really spend time with the youth.

But I just spoke with my entire congregation, so now i'm going to bed. I will continue this later.