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May's monthly update...

GOD SAID, “POLAND, MK’S, AND ME”

Would you love my people group as Jesus loves them?

Welcome Summer, well for school at least. I finished school last Friday and the girls and I are ready for the break. The weather, though, wants us to think we are in the middle of spring with the late afternoon cold rain. Other than that the weather here is very nice. Now that school is done I hope to have some more time working with the team in the city telling others about Christ.
Language is still an on going process. I start going two times this week and then starting in July I will begin going to language three times a week. My teacher teaches at one of the “Middle” school’s here in Olsztyn, and their semester is not over until the end of June. Work in the villages is going great. The kids really enjoy having us out there. The past few weeks we have been focusing on reviewing the language they have learned. They enjoy the games and activities we come prepared to do. Next week will be our last week for the summer, and we will be having American week via the Volunteer team. The coffee shop is winding down for the summer, The beginning of the month we had one person attending and as it has gotten closer to her finals she has stopped coming. I am not sure if we are going to continue to have coffee shop through the summer, but we will if there is interest. We have started a new coffee shop on Monday afternoons out at the university campus. Hopefully more college students will be able to attend the one on campus.
Please be in prayer for the team as we begin our summer. Summers can be a time of little to do or more to do than we can ever get to. We have a Volunteer Team coming next week, who are coming to do village work. Please pray for their travels and for a safe and fun trip while here. The following week my roommate and I are on vacation in the Mediterranean Sea, then we head to Greece for our annual Business Meeting. Once that is done, I will be returning to Olsztyn for the majority of the summer. Please continue to pray for the lost we meet with, that their hearts and minds would be open to hearing what we have to say about Christ. The biggest barrier we have is tradition of the Polish people. Most Poles only do certain things due to tradition and for no other reason. Because of this it is very hard to ‘break’ that and help them to see who Christ truly is. I thank you for you continued prayers and I am truly indebted to you support.

Thank you again for your prayers and support,
Naomi DeVault, Olsztyn Poland

4000 Disrobe!

My mother sent this to me and I thought I woudl share it with you all...:)


4000 Monks Disrobe!
Wait! It is NOT what you think!!

I heard an incredible story this morning from colleagues in a country that are among the peoples in the South East Asia Affinity Group. It seems that over the past several years that the Gospel message has been finding root among Buddhist monks in a country rife with poverty and political oppression. It is a dark place spiritually and even the “spiritual leaders” have discovered the hopelessness of the Buddha!

Because of outreach and a strategy that employs scripture storying a significant number of these monks have “disrobed” (cast away their robes, walked away from the priesthood, and left Buddhism altogether) and committed their lives to the One who can bring them hope and meaning in such dire circumstances. The total number of monks who have left Buddhism is 4,000. You read it correctly—four thousand!! It has become such a problem in one area that a monastery that served a larger number of monks has closed completely—because there is no one left there who follows Buddha!

Meet the new additions...

Meet Thing 1 and Thing 2! The baby birds have hatched. The hatched about five days ago and the birds are very ugly. I know pidgins are ugly birds but I never thought the baby birds would be as ugly as they are. They are little and yellow. It took about a day for me to actually get a picture of the birds and by then they were both hatched so I got a picture of both. The pictures I have are from yesterday. The funny thing is about the time I took the first picture the mother bird came back and was mad. The only sad part of the baby birds is through the night one did not make it. It made me sad when I looked at them this morning and say that only one lived. The mother has been gone a lot today and I think she was only able to truly take care of one bird. The bird that has been sitting on the nest and is taking care of the bird is not the bird that laid the eggs. We think this bird decided to be even lazier than Bonnie and took Bonnie’s eggs and then “threw” her out of the nest. Anyway the bird that is taking care of the nest is even uglier than Bonnie and the babies are uglier still. Thing 1 is beginning to make some noise and move around, he opened his eyes today. Now we are just hoping by the time we get back from vacation the baby will be out of the nest and we can try to save the raspberry bush the nest is in. Here are the few pictures I took, I hope you enjoy them!

Here they are close up (they have huge eyes and beaks and are curled up together)

Here they are from a distance (you can really see how small they are)

Mad "momma" coming to see what is going on