More from the first day...

Our service for the first day came in three parts...

Across the street from the new Tomaszow Church, a wall is being refurbished as agreed to by the City of Tomaszow and PROeM. This wall may be used for some Christian artwork, and there is talk of using a projector from the Church to display services, especially holiday services on this wall.

When the mission team arrived, there was loose paint on the wall that needed to be scrapped and weak spots in the underlying outdoor plaster that had to be removed before a hired worker could begin resurfacing the wall. The first coat of new plaster has been applied and a second will be applied in the morning. Painting will come later in the week.

While that work had been occurring, a number of piles of rubble in an outdoor common area needed to be removed so that this area could be remodeled. The piles consisted of bricks, excess tiling from indoor tiling projects and other "junk" that had been tossed out the side door of the former theater.

A considerable volume had been moved by the end of the work day revealing the promise of the common area envisioned by the church staff. There will be more work done in this area in the morning.

Rounding out the day, six people from the mission team went to a Tomaszow primary school and taught english for a couple of hours.

God is at work in Poland. He provides us with everything we need to do good work in His name.

From Michael Hensley:

Today was a very humbling experience to me to get my hands dirty while serving Him. And I met new people and was reaquainted with people I'd met before. Not to mention my body is in pain for all the work it did...