{"id":6402,"date":"2022-03-28T07:59:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T12:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kachelman.com\/ukraine\/blog\/?p=6402"},"modified":"2022-03-28T07:59:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T12:59:16","slug":"report-12-march-27-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kachelman.com\/ukraine\/blog\/2022\/03\/28\/report-12-march-27-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Report #12 – March 27, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Worship a Wroclaw, Poland; John was preaching and Marek (young man with the glasses to the left) was translating into Polish. In the foreground is Marina, Sasha and Sofia from Ivano-Frankivsk.<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Our daily task assignments continue to be fluid\u2014there is a general plan but that plan is almost always pre-empted by critical issues that pop-up. At times it is like playing whack-a-mole! The only problem is that I cannot whack some of the moles as hard as I want!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worship in Wroclaw<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The congregation here is small in number but big in heart and devotion to the Lord. Assembling with them was a joyful event as we sang hymns in Polish, Ukrainian, Russian and English! I had the opportunity to preach and used the time to offer a summary of Habakkuk\u2019s message that God gives absolute hope in times of hopelessness! The preacher and his wife in Wroclaw are Szczepan (in the good ole south we would call him \u201cSteven\u201d) and Anna Czerski. You will find pics in the slideshow below of the Christians in Wroclaw and our worship together. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Szczepan told me an interesting history of the Church in Poland. His great-great grandfather had gone to the USA prior to WW1 to begin farming. While in the USA he heard the gospel and obeyed it. His farming enterprise flopped and he basically lost everything. But he decided that he needed to return to Poland and share the gospel message he had found in the USA. So he went back to Poland and preached the gospel. At that time, you will remember that portions of present-day Ukraine were under Polish control (the western parts). So, he settled and began preaching the gospel in parts of Poland that are today\u2019s western Ukraine. Szczepan family has a long heritage of preaching the gospel. His Grandfather and father preached in Wroclaw and now he is preaching here as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amazing to consider that a failed farming enterprise was used by the Lord to introduce the gospel into Ukraine\/Poland in the early 1900s!<\/p>\n\n\n\n