Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

Szczęśliwego Nowego Roku!

I pray God will bless you all in 2012. I pray God will show you his perfect plans for your life.
Go with God, Jerry and family

Modlę się, Bóg błogosławi was wszystkich w 2012 roku. Proszę Boga, pokaże swoje doskonałe plany na swoje życie. Z Bogiem, Jerry i rodziny

A Silly Goss family Christmas card

http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/UYHKm7YOLsJGjhaF3IPq

Thanksgiving Pic

We were blessed with friends this year sharing a Thanksgiving meal and fellowship together.

Prayer requests

Hello,

Thank you all for your prayers! We desire and need your prayers daily.

Today 2 Roma men (Janek & Rafal) and myself returned from Slovakia. God allowed us to share the gospel message with many Roma people. Today we found a new village ( Lomnicka, Slovakia) tucked up in between some large mountains. This village has 7000 Roma people. We were quickly surrounded by people and they were amazed that God would send us to them to tell them about Jesus. There is a Catholic church in their large village, but no one we talked to had anything good to say about the church or the Priest.
We gave out several DVD's of the Jesus film in 16 Roma language dialects and several New Testaments on CD in MP3 format. The people were very grateful for the DVD's and CD's.
Pray as we return and discuss the Jesus film, that God will open hearts and homes to us to continue ministering there.
Please pray for continued safety as we enter these large villages. We are extremely out numbered, but we have a mighty God that we serve!

Please pray for Janek and his family as they all travel to England tomorrow (12/08/11) until after the New Year. The Roma group of believers in Nottingham, England will have a baptism on December 23rd. We are rejoicing in what God is doing in this group in England!

Please continue to pray for our daughter Kari and her health issues. God knows the details.

Please pray for our daughter Tara in KY, she is 6 months pregnant and has had tests that cause concern for her health.

We pray for you all. We are also praying that you all seize every moment and opportunity to share the good news to all people in your areas. This is the holiday season of the celebration of the birth of Jesus. People are more open to the gospel this time of year.
People are also hurting more this time of year, as they celebrate Christmas without loved ones who have passed away this year.
We have the greatest message to proclaim to the whole world. I pray we share that message as much as possible.

We love you all and thank you all for your prayers!!!!!

Jerry and family

HAPPY THANKSGIVING DAY!

We thank God for you all!
We wish you all many blessings from our great God and savior. We will celebrate our day of Thanksgiving with many international friends this Saturday in our home. Today everyone we know is working or in school. So, Saturday will be the festive day!
Thank you all for your prayers!

Our cat's new home

Mocca, our cat for the past 5 years has a new home in the rural country side of Poland. She will live with a great family and she will have many farm animal friends.
This family is a super nice family that I have been sharing with for 1 1/2 years. We pray that God will bless this family more and more as they are a blessing to many people and animals.

Watch the video and pray for our brothers and sisters in Christ

We are one body. When a part of our body is hurting and suffering, we all are effected. Do you feel the pain? Pray for one another. Spread the word about the persecution. Weep and mourn when our body is hurting and take a stand. Do we weep when 40,000 members of our body are brutally murdered each?
We will always suffer persecution when we live for Jesus in this fallen world. Share the good news of the gospel so that souls can be saved.

Here is the link to a video we all need to watch.

http://bcove.me/yihsanap

Polish Independence day

Today is an important day in Poland's history.
In 1918, after 123 years of occupation, the Polish state was reborn and regained its independence. Autumn 1918 marked the end of World War I and the defeat of all three occupiers.

For more information visit this link;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Independence_Day

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Polish_Republic

Souls saved

On All Soul's day, in a cemetery in eastern Poland. 30 Roma were gathered together for the traditional holiday festivities associated with All Soul's Day.
When a Roma believer (Jan) was asked why he is not lighting candles and praying for the souls of the dead, Jan replied with " I pray for those who are still alive. I pray they will trust Jesus and receive eternal life. These graves contain bodies of skin and bones, there are not any souls in these graves."
Jan shared the gospel message and his testimony. 6 Roma adults began to weep and shouted "We need this same salvation you have". Jan shared the word of God and the 6 repented and prayed for salvation of their souls.
Please lift up these new believers as they grow in their faith. Also pray for Jan as he will be leading the discipleship of this new group.

Pray for the Slovakian Roma

Please continue to lift up Rafal & Janek and myself as we engage Roma people in central Slovakia. There are several thousands of Roma people living in small clusters among the mountains. Pray God will grant us favor and give protection as we reach out with the gospel message. So far after 1 1/2 years of sharing the gospel message, we have no person of peace or persons of good will. No open homes yet either. We speak on the streets and on the edges of villages. We have not been welcomed into any homes yet. We know that in God's timing He will open hearts and homes.
We covet your prayers.
Thank you!

A must see video

A must see video!

I pray everyone will watch this entire video and think about what they just watched. It is an awesome video. I pray Americans will wake up and see things as God sees them.
Copy and paste this link into your web browser.

http://www.180movie.com/

Just returned from a vacation in Croatia

Croatia is the most beautiful country we have been in so far. The Island of krk is wonderful. The water is the clearest water I have ever seen. Here are just a few pics. Our daughter Kari has many more on her Facebook site. God blessed our family and 2 friends from Malaysia with a awesome week.

Virginians, Polish guys, and a Malaysian sister...

We had a great time of ministry. God has been using many different nationalities to work together as one for the glory of God. Building His kingdom with brothers and sisters in Jesus from many different countries, languages and cultures is amazing.

A busy summer

It has been a while since my last post. We have had 6 teams this summer and time has flown by so fast with busy long days. God has worked and many lives have been encouraged and souls saved! Praise and glory to God! I will load pics as we download the camera to the computer.
Thank you all for your prayers!

Another new visitor

It was also a blessing to listen to some good music by Roma people. I am glad to see them earning some money while blessing people with music.

I hope you enjoy the video.

New Visitor near our apartment

We have lived in this same neighborhood for 8 years this September 3rd. We have never seen either of these 2 types of visitors in our neighborhood. It was neat to see a baby hawk land so close to us.

Baby Estera Gil

Paulina and baby Estera are both home and healthy. We all are rejoicing in the healthy birth of Estera. Estera weighed 2.9 Kilos. Thank you all for your prayers! Rafal is a proud Dad and Krisztian is happy to have a baby sister.

What you sow, you shall reap

When we share God's life transforming word and His love to others, we often are rewarded with love in return.
Investing our lives into others lives makes this world a better place. Often we see people trust Jesus as their Savior and Lord and we gain a new brother or sister in Jesus.
We enjoy seeing God's family grow, one soul at a time!

Baptism-Sebastian Donga

We had a wonderful day celebrating the salvation of a brother and good friend through his public Baptism!
Sebastian and Andrzej Mirga made this baptismal pool themselves earlier that morning.
A great day!!!!!

Jax is back in Poland

It is great having Jacquelin back home with us again. 2 weeks is a short time, but it is better than not having her here. The Roma people are all happy she is back in Poland. 2 Roma villages are having a grill (cook out) in her honor.

Learning a Roma dance

Bendert is a Dutch man and he is filled with Jesus! We all had a great time of ministering to our Roma friends in southern Poland.

Sonja Gil and her first Son, Jan Andrzej

Roma village outreach

We were blessed with another team of Christians from USA, Australia, Holland and Finland.

We all ministered in a Roma village for a day. Times of sharing testimonies, singing and praying, also fun and games and Kielbasa!

We all were encouraged and strengthened by the word of God and the love of Christ in each believer.

Wedding- Dennis & Karolina

We all were blessed to be at a Roma wedding of two young people we have know for many years now. Michal and Janka's son was married. It was a time of praising God, singing, dancing, and prayer.

Brenda and I and 5 Roma from Szaflary (southern Poland) traveled to Western Poland to Michal's apartment. It was a great reunion since our last Roma family 2 years ago.

Pray that Dennis and Karolina will continue to grow in the faith as they walk with Jesus.

Szaflary children singing

Szaflary children Estara & Kuba dancing

These children have learned songs about God and His word. They shared some songs and a dance with the International team.

Szaflary Roma village outreach

We were blessed to minister with an International team to a group of Roma people in southern Poland. The team shared their testimonies, sang songs, and the Roma people did the same.

It was a good time of fellowship. Sharing how our awesome God transforms lives by His grace and love.

Roma culture festival

Andrzej Mirga from Szaflary (Roma leader) and I were asked to speak about the Roma culture to a crowd of students and people who attended a Roma cultural festival.
I was able to share some of my testimony with the gospel message and how God had called my family to Poland to share God's plan of salvation to the Roma people.
I also shared about all the life transforming work God has done in the past 7 years here in Eastern Europe among the Roma people.
Andrzej shared his testimony and about the Roma culture.
Staszek Gluszek also shared how God began the Roma work in Poland starting 13 years ago with a man named Timo, from Finland, up to Staszek's family's involvement and all that God is doing through Staszek and his wife Zosia and their family with Roma projects, ie; Roma school, scouting, etc.
The time and words shared brought awareness of the Roma life to many Polish people who were interested in the Roma culture.
Pray that God will speak to the hearts of many Polish people. Our prayer and vision is that true spiritual revival of Europe will begin with the Roma people being a living testimony of the power and mercy of God.

Kielce Bible distributions

Deanna and Laura, two DBU students ministered with us here in Poland. This day we went to Richard's home town in kielce, Poland and distributed 600 Polish New Testaments to students. Some Gospel conversations were also made. We pray that God's word will be read and lives will be changed.

Mirek is now with Jesus

Mirek was a faithful Roma leader of a Roma church plant in Brno, Czech Republic.

This photo is of Mirek in Poland at a Roma family Camp we held last summer.

Mirek was taken home to Heaven. His race has finished.

Pray the Roma church will grow even stronger as they all miss the leadership and love of a brother in Christ.

Wladek is with Jesus

This is photos from 2009 when Wladek and his wife Halina were saved and baptized at a Roma family camp. The last photo is us praying for them to grow in their new faith and salvation after their baptisims.
Waldek went to be with Jesus and Halina will be returning to Ukraine tomorrow.
Pray for Halina as she returns to her home town and reunites with her family there.
We will miss them both very much. We are thankful to God for saving them!
The good thing is we will all be reunited in Heaven again someday!
Thanks and glory be to our great God!

Special Memories of 2010

Looking back over the good times in 2010. Thanks to all of you for making it a very special year.

May the memories of this past year be kept in
the corner of our minds; to be brought back to enjoy from time to time.
But, may we never linger there for too long of stay
and miss the moment were in, because it too will be a memory someday:)

Jezus Cie Kocha!! Keren wants you all to know that Jesus loves you:)

And we do too!!

Back home in the beautiful state of New York! Niagara Falls and family:) Five generations: Great,Great Grandma Jo, Great Grandpa John Wise, Gigi (Brenda), Mom (Tara), and Baby Keren:)

New Friends in Kentucky. We all had a great time getting to know them all! And can't wait to see everyone again!

AWESOME friends and colleagues in the Krakow team. We enjoyed our time with each and everyone of one them. May God bless them in 2011!

Polish/Roma Missionaries serving in Prague! Janek & Ewelina Gil and their children. Rafal & Paulina Gil and their son and a baby on the way! What a blessing to see during our ministry with the Roma people of Poland; from strangers to friends to believers to missionaries.