Congratulation - Realna Actja in Łódź

Vice President Marcin Bugajski in Łódź gives honour to the leaders of Realna Ackja in Łódź. One of them is Mission New Hope leader Piotr Karas (No. 2 from the right in front) Picture from halolodz.pl

Great to read about the great sucess of Realna Ackja in Łódź. That about 250 young people from Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, America, England, Ukraine, and Switzerland in such a wonderfull way have given a people in Łódź a great experience og God's love and care...

Great to have good friends

Once more is the value of good friends confirmed. Messages of encouragement have reached us after sharing the message Strong challenge with friends in Poland. The message above is from Cieszka and Tomek in Crakow. All the messages have the same conclusion: We are praying for you. Great. Thank you - and PRAISE the Lord!

Inspiration from Cieszyn

Ela and Marek Cieslar from Cieszyn is back in Poland after one week in our Shelter. They returned home on Friday after a week with us and left a lot of inpiration. Marek is journalist and responsible for Christian editted by Center for Mission and Evangelism - www.cme.org.pl in Dzięgielow near Cieszyn. The city south east of Poland which is both Polish and Czech, only divided by boarderline river.
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We have known Ela and Marek for about 20 years since Dzięgielow also is site for one of the largest annual summerconference for mission and evangelism in Central Europe.
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Krystyna a Christian in Dzięgielow in -84 and I got my renewal as a Christian in -89. Great place.
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Ela and Marek endjoyed to be out in the Hurdal enviroment - and then together with us a lot of inspirating conversations - espesially about the future for our Shelter in Hurdal...

Strong challenge

We have got a strong challenge regarding the coverage of our operating expenses – renting / running of our Hurdal base, car, office and salary costs are mainly covered by own activity. Above is a summary of our challenges in covering operating costs.
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Main activity is offer of information service since I as foundation manager is journalist by profession. Information department in county Akershus has for many years been main customer. Some income is also received by renting out rooms to temporary workers in Hurdal.
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This message was received yesterday: Stop in the delivery to the county. Reason is limited budget for using freelance journalists...
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The consequence for Safety Shelter is a proximately loss - this year - of about NOK 100.000 or about 12.000 €. Very obvious: we have to look for alternative solutions...
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It's also true that the journalist work is time demanding and has resulted in lack of capacity for important ministry challenges.
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New solutions have to be worked out. We need God's wisdom and intervention and ask for prayer support...
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We – I have STOP in delivery of journalistic report to the county’s web page because of budget problems… Could be a loss of about 50.000 PLN for the rest of the year… The countie's webpage with one story made of me...