Krakow Poland, Part 2

Bro. Glass took us to the old airstrip...this was remnants of what was there.

 

Our second week in Poland was more laid back and relaxing.  We had already seen everything we wanted, except for the Schindler's museum.  This was a great time for us to spend much more time in our Bible's and in prayer.  We knew when we got back to Ukraine, we will be facing much spiritual opposition.  The oppression in Kharkov is like nothing I have ever experienced.  In Poland, it was like to were released from prison, and we felt almost,...relieved to be there.  Even many of my physical ailments I was dealing with went away, not swollen ankles, no pain.

Briana and Orion enjoying their favorite pastime.

I believe God allowed this down time for us, for it may be the last on we get for a long time! 

We did have to switch apartments mid-stay.  The apartments we were in were reserved for other people, but the apartment manager was awesome and helped us as much as she could.  She even gave us a huge is discount on the 2 times we had to extend our stay there.  Praise God!! The second apartment we got was a 2 bedroom apartment, so we were all able to fit in one.  It also had 1 1/2 bath, which is great with 4 kids!!!!

We very much enjoyed our time with the Glass family and their church there in Poland.  Sweet people, many of them knew english, so we were able to fellowship!

 

Here is Briana and their youngest daughter :) She is the same age as Corey.

 

We were invited twice to their BBQ Bible Study. Great Kielbasa and fellowship!

 

 

Briana was able to spend some time with the Glasses teenage daughter.  Briana really needed this time to fellowship with someone of like faith her same age!

The Schindler factory steps made famous by the movie "Schindler's List"

During that last week, we went to the Schindler museum.  It was one of the nicest museums I have seen in a long time.  It takes you on a journey of German occupation during WWII in Krakow.  Many of you may have seen the Schindler list (I have not) but we seen the list on his office wall.  What scary time's that was.  I know God blessed that man for helping the Jews like he did! 

Finally, on Sept. 3, we received the paperwork we needed to get our Visa's.  Bro. Glass drove us to the embassy and took us wherever we needed to go, what a blessing.  We went to the embassy on Wednesday afternoon to see if they could start our paperwork, they said they did not take paperwork for visas but in the morning, but they did allow us to go ahead and pay for our insurance.  So we walked to the bank, paid for the insurance, and walked back to the embassy with our receipts.  The next morning, we went to the embassy again with all our paperwork...they said they could process it in one hour.  Praise God.  Normally it take the whole day, but God allowed us to find favor, and they processed it very quickly!  Bro. Glass helps many missionaries from Ukraine that come to renew their visa's, and he said he has never seen them process visas so fast before.  Praise God!!!  Now we have our Visas, the next step is to get our residency.  The University will take care of most of that for us!!!  Now with Visa's in hand, it was time to get back to Kharkov....

Bro. Peterson took us to McDonalds for supper!  This had to have been the fanciest McDonalds I have ever been in.  The boys really like the tablets they had set up for the kids :)

Trip to Warsaw from Krakow by train....Bro. Peterson, a missionary there in Warsaw, let us stay the night with him since our train got in late!  What a blessing, he also took us to the airport the next morning so we could fly to Kiev!  The only thing I was dreading was that 8 hour bus ride to Kharkov....but....at 1am....we were finally home after 2 1/2 weeks!!! 



Only 234 Kilometers left till we get to Kharkov....

Pictures from our trip to Krakow, Poland