Eiflings in Wroclaw, Poland

New Church and Youth Group Last September we moved to Wroclaw, Poland to begin in serving in our long-term location and local church. It has been great to begin immersing ourselves in our new church home. We are spending a lot of time building relationships, not only with the youth, but with the entire church body by participating in weekly prayer meetings, the fall family picnic, dinners with couples and families, and other opportunities.We are already building a great relationship with Adam (in picture below on left),
not only a working ministry partnership, but also a friendship. We spend a
lot of time together not only planning youth meetings and events, but also talking
about ministry philosophy, strategy, vision and direction, youth culture,
etc. We are learning a lot from each other about ministry to the youth of
Wroclaw, Poland.

One exciting ministry we have
begun is our Elements small
groups. We have one guys’ group
and two girls’ groups with both believers and non-believers who
meet weekly. Elements is a tool created by Josiah Venture and
used in 10 Eastern European countries which grounds new or
young believers in their faith and helps them develop their
relationship with Christ. You can see more about Elements
including sample lessons and videos testimonies from Eastern European young people on the website at
www.jvelements.com.

Iwona is training 2 girls to be leaders of
Elements groups as well as 2 co-leaders who can lead groups in
the future. Daniel is co-leading a group for guys with Adam.
Please pray for these groups that meet every Thursday and Friday evening.


New Role in K2
K2 is the name of our program for training youth group ministry teams. We've had our first 2 of 5 training
weekends with teens and leaders from 4 youth groups from different cities. We had a lot of time together
studying the ministry of Jesus. We looked at how he called, built, equipped and sent his disciples. We also
learned about 6 priorities of Jesus as he did ministry. Each weekend we meet we will focus on 1-2 of these
priorities. For example, we discussed the need to have an atmosphere of love in our youth groups and
taught on the 5 Languages of Love (Words of Affirmation, Quality Time, Receiving Gifts, Acts of Service
& Physical Touch). We then had 5 stations where teens could
learn experientially about each of these (e.g. Youth went in
pairs to the “Acts of Service” station where they read John 13 in
which Jesus washed his disciples’ feet. Then they washed each
other’s feet). In addition to teaching times and learning
experiences, we spent about 1/3 of our time in groups in which
youth leaders and their youth evaluated their own lives
personally as well as their youth groups in light of what we
studied. It was a joy to see the passion of these youth who want
to serve God. Michael told me, “I would like to read my notebook 5 more times because there was so
much important information that I learned this weekend. I have always before though about how to reach
out to my non-believing friends from outside my youth group, but this was the first time I’ve ever thought
about how to care for and shepherd my believing friends inside the youth group.” Please pray for us as we
meet again for our third weekend on February 1-2, 2008.

We had a wonderful time with you while we were in Scottsdale on our short visit in December. Although a week felt like it was not enough time we are grateful for the time we did have with you. Thank you for your faithfulness to pray for our ministry to youth here in Poland!

Sincerely,

Daniel, Iwona & David Eifling