Update from Poland

Prayer-walking in the old city in Lublin

Can the things that are happening in the natural world be a reflection of what’s happening in the spiritual world? The reason I ask is that we want to start this newsblog from us here in Poland by sharing something peculiar that happened last month.

While we were having some prayer walks in town, the prayer for God to reopen the old wells of revival kept coming to us again and again, so this became part of our focus.

A few days later a friend, who had also been on our prayer walk, asked me if I had heard the news. I had not, so I was curious about it.

He then told me that he had read in the newspaper that the city government had found an old unknown well – a few meters from where we had been praying. The amazing part was that they had also decided to dig it up and reopen it.

What a peculiar coincidence! Right after we had been prayer-walking in town, asking God to reopen the old wells of revival, the city government finds an unknown well they decide to dig up and reopen.

God is definitely doing something in Europe and the wells of revival that changed this continent once will start to flow again – I truly believe this with my whole heart.

Life in Poland
The last month here in Poland has been a great time for us and we’ve enjoyed visits both from African friends and from my (Ronald’s) mom and dad. When you’re a missionary away from home it’s always extra nice to have friends and family visit.

Now the summer period has started here and we can notice that people are getting more and more into a holiday mode.

The international students in our ICFL fellowship have finished their semester and last Sunday we had a picnic with them as a last gathering before the summer break.

On the picture to the left you see some of the regular people coming to the ICFL, togheter with some pastors from China that was minister in one of our last meetings. The picture to the right is from the picnic.

New training school
As I mentioned in my last newsblog, we have been busy preparing and planning for a new training school. Now we are more or less ready and people have already started to sign up. We believe that for the harvest to be ripe, the workers need to be trained and sent out. This is our vision with the new training school.

We have sensed a lot of spiritual turbulence around the starting of this school and we take that as a good sign. If there is something I believe is on the heart of God, it is the equipping of the saints for ministry, so it’s not strange that the devil does not like the project.

The main focus will not be a theological training. We want it to be a practical school of ministry that seeks to equip God’s people to operate naturally in the supernatural power of God.

The school is starting in October but already in September we are planning to have a mini-conference to promote it.

Plans for the summer
As a family we don’t have any big plans for the summer, but we will spend about 2 weeks in Norway. Besides that we will enjoy the Polish summer and get charged both physically, mentally and spiritually.

August will be a very busy month where we will go to Denmark, Kenya and South Sudan. In all of these places I will be having seminars, so part of the summer period I will also have to use preparing.

When I go to Kenya and South Sudan, I am lucky to be traveling together with Eimund and Cassie Skjæret. This will be quite a hectic trip with a lot of teaching, so I am very happy to have them help me. I will write more about this trip later.

Thank you
A big thank you to everyone that is praying and supporting the Nations Calling work. Without prayer we would be working in vain so the support from all of you who are following the work means a lot.

     God bless you and we wish you a fantastic summer
     where you can enjoy all of God’s goodness.