Update on MiHalina Gil

MiHalina and Andrzej want to personally thank everyone for their prayers. MiHalina's bypass surgery went very well and she is recovering greatly. She is in a rehabilitation facility for 2 weeks, then she can return home. (Mihalina is standing in the back with a red sweater on and holding her grandson.)

Everyone is praising God for a successful surgery and answered prayer!!!!

Thank you,

MiHalina & Andrzej Gil and family

Update on MiHalina

MiHalina had a quadruple heart bypass today. She is in intensive care and we all are waiting to see how she pulls through. The Dr.'s said they will tell the family tomorrow evening. Please be in prayer for MiHalina and for her family as they wait in suspense.

The Roma people we work with here, usually never go to the hospital for any surgery. Old fears of communist times and a lack of trust, cause them to just live life until they die at home. This was a big step for this Roma family. They are mostly believers in Jesus and they are praying and trusting in the power of God for healing and life. MiHalina is a believer in Jesus!!!!

Thank you for praying!!!

Christmas Eve dinner at Roma's home

 It is a Polish tradition and for the Roma people also, to have a big feast on Christmas Eve.

Our family has been invited for the past 4 years to join a group of Roma in Zeslawice for the feast.

 We have a time of prayer. Bible reading of the birth of Jesus and then the feast.

This year our family was joined by a young women from Egypt named Laura.  Laura spent the evening enjoying fellowship with all of us.

Thank you Jesus, for allowing us all to fellowship in remembrance of your birth!!!!

Roma ladies making knitted hats

  A church in Hawaii blessed the Roma ministry with looms and yarn. Brenda & Lindsay taught the Roma ladies how to make these really warm knitted hats. The ladies are really happy to see the fruit of their labors.

Thank you Jesus for the loving kindness of His children who blessed these women with these tools to be a blessing.

You can guess what some of their family members got for Christmas!!! :)

Jacqui is 17 !!!!!!!!!!!!!

 Jacqui and her Birthday Cookie!!!!! She has been helping out at a cookie shop and this is what they blessed her with for her Birthday!! A GIANT COOKIE!!!!!

God has blessed us with a wonderful daughter for 17 years.

P.S. God has blessed us with 5 wonderful daughters!!!!!! :) :)

New Years with our Malaysian friends!!

 We were blessed to have the girls spend New Years with us. They are medical students studying here in Krakow. They too, did not travel home for the holidays. So, we all enjoyed the holidays (Christmas & New years) together in our apartment in Krakow, Poland

 The girls cooked a traditional Malaysian-Thai meal called Tam Yam. It was very good. Unlike anything we had ever eaten before, but very good. It had Squid, shrimp, crab, fish, chicken, tofu, lemon grass and lime leaves and a bunch of different veggies in a soup. 

After dinner we all watched the fireworks outside. Poland is crazy with fireworks. It was like a war zone outside.

 The girls spent the night with our girls. It was a late night and super fun!!!!! 

Pray- MiHalina's Heart surgery

                                                    Please join us in intercessory prayer for our sister in Jesus.

 MiHalina Gil (seen here in the Dark Blue dress) has been a believer in Jesus for almost 4 years now. She has 9 children and she is 43 years old. MiHalina  pronounced (Mee Ha leena) has had a blockage and has been on a waiting list for over 1 1/2 years to have an Angioplasty (balloon) surgery done. She was finally admitted yesterday and now her blockage is so bad they can not preform the Angioplasty. She is now waiting for consultation to have a bypass done this week?

Please pray for MiHalina and her family. She is really scared and and so are her Husband and children. MiHalina and Andrzej (Husband) have been blessed to see most of their grown children become believers in Jesus also. They are all praying non-stop and trusting in God's healing power.

Thank you for your prayers!!!!!!