ESL Classes at LOGOS English School in Glogow, Poland

Here's some pictures of Bob teaching his ESL classes.

Here's a few shots of Barb's class of 16 year olds.

October update

Hi Everyone,
Just thought I'd bring you up to date on what's been going on here in Poland.  The weather has been decidely cold!  We've had pretty good weather up till now with a few chilly days, but I think winter has definitely set in!  What happened to Fall?  One of the nearby cities even has snow forcasted for later this week!  That's kind of early even for this part of Poland.

We've been settling in with our ESL lessons and have gotten it down to a ''science" of sorts.  We can plan for the week's lessons in just several hours now.  We still haven't started the English Bible study of our own just yet but did participate in one at another church member's house with several other people last week on a Sunday night.  A dessert and kava [coffee] and herbata [tea] are always offered!   See picture below.

The guy in the purple colored sweater on the right is Shawn.  He's from New Zealand.  He was here about 10 years ago and stayed several years but left, then decided to come back in February of this year.  It sounds like he wants to stay now.  He has picked up the Polish language very quickly and can understand and converse fairly fluently.  He plays guitar in the church occasionally and puts on christian music concerts also.  This is his way of working for Christ.  He also collaborates with the Pastor and Tomek [in the dark sweater] on musical CDs.  They are currently working on a Christmas CD.  We've heard part of it and it sounds very nice.  They put together CDs to supplement their income.  Tomek plays the keyboard at church and also preaches from time to time.  He is finishing up at the seminary in Prague.  Besides Sean, [who speaks English as native language in New Zealand], Tomek has very good English skills also.

 Last week we also went to see our friends in Wroclaw----Piotr and Grazyna and Artur their son.  Piotr has been the one to help me translate letters and emails back and forth to Sebastian's family for the last couple of years.  We had met them when Sebastian was around 10 years old and we hired Grazyna to keep up Sebastian's Polish language for a couple of years while they were in the US.  Piotr was at the University of Florida Physics Department.  Artur was a playmate for Sebastian back then. Artur is in his last year of High School now and is a very nice young man. His English is very good! [as is Piotr's and Grazyna's]  Artur has a dream of becoming a heart surgeon and wants to study later on in Italy after medical school in Poland.

Well, let me finish with a fun story.  A few weeks ago, when coming back from Wroclaw and taking care of our Visa paperwork, the Pastor says "let's stop for something to eat".  So he pulls into a large parking lot where there are a bunch of stores and "lo and behold" a Pizza Hut.  The sign outside is very familiar to all of us.  So I told Sebastian, jokingly, "Look, he's taking us to Pizza Hut".  Sebastian, who loves the Polish food, says "No Way, I don't want to go there".  The Pastor, who is known for his joking says "No really, you'll like it, it's very good.  People in business attire eat here".  And sure enough, just then, a man in a business suit and briefcase was walking up to the front door.  Well, the sign is the only similarity to the Pizza Huts back home.  At least the one's we know!  Take a look at the pictures below.  The food was very good.  Good salad bar---although strange selections, lots of different type coleslaws plus beets and maybe a bean salad.  The Pizza was actually really good and they also served pasta dishes that looked really good.  Pizza Hut in Poland is FINE DINING at its best!!  I did try a pasta dish at a different Pizza Hut in the Mall near here and it was very tasty.  Until next time....

Danish Church in partnerhsip with Polish Baptist Christian Church

Two weekends ago, the Polish Baptist Christian Church in Glogow had a visit by a "sister" church in Denmark. A relationship was formed many years ago between the 2 churches. The Danish church had the idea to form a relationship with a church somewhere else in Europe and at first found it difficult in finding a church that was willing to form this partnership! But then they sent out another letter to this church in Glogow and a partnership was formed. Since then they have helped the Glogow church in raising money and adding on the addition to the church amongst other things.


Polish and Danish Flags to show
relationship between the 2 churches.


The Danish people singing a song
to the rest of the congregation.