mimneskesthai

Ok..so by now Jesus has got my attention… the next step was to take a few close friends into our confidence who could pray over the whole affair and to begin to plan a visit to Lublin.

Of course I guess many people reading this will be thinking this is just a series of coincidences but through my life as a Christian I have come to the conclusion that whilst this may be true I wouldn’t want to miss out if it wasnt just a coincidence. I was due to go back to Warsaw in the spring of ‘09 so it seemed sensible that this would be a good time to tag an extra day on to the trip and go to Lubin. Unfortunately that trip was cancelled and my tenure as one of the Poland support team came to an end. This meant that we would have to find funds to make the whole of the trip ourselves which frankly made the prospect less than a possibility.

However things started moving again when Heather and I went on our sabbatical leave at the beginning of June ‘09. As part of the overall plans for our sabbatical time we included the trip to Lublin though we had no idea how we could pay for it. On the evening we made the plans (!) and committed to try and go I received a phone call from Alberto Serem (Officer Commanding Portugal) who invited Heather and I to go and speak at the National Youth Councils late september. Though it was in our sabbatical time (ie not supposed to do any work) this seemed providential and so we said a conditional yes to Alberto. If he would be good enough to pay our flights from London to Lisbon and then, instead of sending us home, flew us on to Warsaw then we would go. He agreed and so we had the first part of the trip in place.

Now  we had to figure out  how to pay for a hotel in Warsaw, train to Lubin, accomodation in Lublin and flight home via Warsaw. With the weakness of Sterling this was going to be expensive.

Next evening we had a knock on the door from one of the senior leaders at our church arnoldarmy……….