You and I stand together to spread God’s kingdom, everywhere there are people. It’s amazing! Our whole lives can be dedicated to this service, and the best thing we can do is start as soon as we’ve entered God’s kingdom, as soon as Jesus has become our Lord!
Jesus doesn’t say, “Hmm, you’re a little too young,” or “Well, you’re way too old.”
No, as soon as we become His, He says, “Welcome, friend! Welcome, coworker! It’s amazing to work together with you!”
One of the things we do together is opening new Bible schools in Europe. New and old believers, young and old, Czechs, Poles, Ukrainians… all hungry, they have decided to be trained in God’s Word.
Just a few weeks ago, I was one of those who had the privilege of opening one of these Bible schools – in Poland.
There were about forty men and women who, together, listened—sometimes with serious expressions, other times laughing—and spent many hours in joyful fellowship at the church that weekend. The topic was prayer, and already on Saturday morning, hours before the Bible school, we had reason to raise our voices in prayer. On my phone, and later through Polish news outlets, page after page displayed horrific, unimaginable scenes of barbaric murders of Jews in southern Israel. In Poland, right next to the train cars that during the Nazi occupation once carried Jewish children, youth, adults, and elderly people to the death camps, we now saw the same thing repeating, today, on our phone screens.
It’s so easy to feel completely powerless, but instead of becoming paralyzed, we raised our voices with strength, believing that it truly makes a difference—and we prayed for the Jewish people.
It was not an escape from reality, but in the midst of what was happening, we used the most powerful weapon there is – we prayed!
Thank you, sisters and brothers in Poland, for the weekend spent with you, and thank you to all our faithful siblings that we get to do this together—planting God’s explosive and transformative Word in hungry hearts across Europe!
/ Ingrid Lilja
