I have a special prayer request.

The Mayor of Krakow is pressured by the Catholic church to evict us from our ministry center for having prayer meetings in a Government owned building. We rent from a private man who rents the whole building from the city of Krakow. The city has sent out control officers to validate the claim that we are praying and worshiping in our ministry center. Of course the claim was found to be true, now the Mayor told our land lord of our ministry center to evict us or they will evict him from renting the entire building. We fly to America on Tuesday, so we may loose our ministry center while we are in the USA and I don't know what will happen to our ministry supplies??? Pray that God will allow us to continue to rent this space for our ministry center and that the government officials will not evict us or remove our ministry supplies while we are not here in Poland to save our stuff or to defend ourselves. Thank you for praying!!! Z Bogiem, Jerry and family

update

Sorry it has been a long time since my last post. We had moved apartments. We have been in Lithuania and Brenda was in Budapest, Hungary.

We are packing and ready for our flights back to America the beautiful on Sept. 7, 2010.

We are looking forward to seeing many of you again in America.

Thank you for praying for us and the Roma people.

Fishing in Slovakia & Poland's mountains

Andrzej and I have recently been in the mountains of Slovakia for a few days. Andrzej Mirga (Roma Christian leader in southern Poland).and I went "fishing for Roma" and we found around 2500 Roma in an area in north central Slovakia.
It was the first time they ever heard the real gospel message. They knew only some catholic teachings about Mary and the church is the way to go to heaven.
The street side meetings began with them having great suspicion of who and why we we want to talk with them. Then it got ugly with drunk men and women screaming about "Mary is the mother of God and we only pray to her".
By God's grace as we shared the scriptures, hearts began to change and open up. We shared the whole gospel message and there are now a few homes that are open for us to return to. After 2 1/2 hours of many people coming and going, the crowd would become huge with over 300 people pressing all around us, then it would dwindle down to a couple hundred people, then increase again. A core group of 100 or more people stayed the whole time and listened intently.

As we reentered Poland we were by a Roma village were 5 years ago, they said they would kill me if I ever returned. I saw a Roma women from another village I work in sitting out by the road, so I pulled over quickly and Andrzej said " Are you sure you want to stop here?" "This is a real bad place"
I said, "I have a good feeling about this". So we got out of the van, walked over and began talking to the women I knew and a couple other women. Then I asked the women if we can walk through the village. They looked at Andrzej and told him "he (me) can go if he dares to"
As we were walking through the village, Roma men would cuss at us out the windows, but we just kept walking and praying.
When we arrived near the end of the village a man yelled to us and told us to come to him. We did. He was the "king" of the village.
We spent 3 hours talking with him and his many family members. He is 72 years old and very rich. God truly blessed our time there. We shared the gospel message clearly to them all and we also talked about how and what God had done for us through Jesus.
We are welcome back to his home again! He is active in the Roma communities and he is one of the representatives for the Roma at the annual Roma day at Auschwitz. The Auschwitz Roma day is August 2, so I will be there to see him again.

We are praising God for what He did there and for His protection!!!!!!!!!

God's word is alive and active, sharper than a two edged sword....... Hebrews 4:12

Roma wedding in Szaflary

Halina & Zbyszek were joined in marriage today. They did the civil wedding at the government office then returned to Szaflary for the Roma ceremony. It was a nice day and great time to see God join two people and two Roma clans together.

Zbyszek is from Krosnica and Halina is from Szaflary. These two Roma villages were once enemies. Jesus has changed several people in each village and relationships have been made. Today the two villages have another common bond.

Please pray for the new couple as they begin a new live together.

Saying goodbye for now.........

Janek & Rafal and their families on the night train to Prague, Czech Republic. We will miss them very much. They are going to share the gospel message and start Roma church plants for the next year. We will see them again someday.

Janek & Rafal leading worship

Sunday June 13, 2010 was the last time of worshipping together in the Nowa Huta Roma church plant.

Janek and Rafal and their families have been called by God to be missionaries to the Roma people in Prague, Czech Republic for 1 year.

Rafal has been the leader "Pastor" of the Roma church in Nowa Huta for 3 years. Janek has been the leader "Pastor" of the Roma church plant in Tarnow, Poland for 2 years.

God has raised up new leaders to fill the leadership positions in each church plant.

God has given Janek & Rafal's families a opportunity to see God at work through their obedience to go to Prague.

Please pray for these 2 families as the under go an adventure of a life time.

Jacqui's 2010 Prom in a Castle built in 1352

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_99ePBnZS0