Slot Art Festival in Poland

Every day of the 5 days at the Slot art/music/workshop festival with 5,000 people attending, crazy and great things happened. David speaks every year under a large tree in the center of the festival grounds to those who came to listen or who had been sleeping under the tree. Some of them are Christians who had decided to follow God under the tree the year before or three or seven and they told us about all of the things that God had done in their lives during those years. Some of the people listening weren't Christians or hadn't heard God's love being spoken about in such a real way. Over the five days we and a group of Polish people who made themselves available to talk and pray with anybody throughout the whole festival saw and talked with many of the same people and could see God bringing their hearts closer to his every day. Each time after David had finished speaking, he invited people to come talk to us, pray with us, and give their lives to do God's will and to be in a relationship with him, and many did. On the last day, all of those who listened got in a circle holding hands and David prayed for them.

Two examples of people searching their hearts and making that decision were Richard and Ewa. Richard is a guy who some of the Polish students met during the Steiger school in New Zealand. He lives and works in Waikinae where the school was held, and by "chance" met a few of the students and invited them to go deep sea fishing with his brother and him. That night they and Richard arrived at the prayer meeting and potluck with a nicely cooked lobster. After spending more time with him we conviced him that he should come to poland for the slot fest and he actually did! Every day at Slot he came and listened to David speak. On the last day, after thinking things through, and with the Holy Spirit's guidance, he made the decision to folllow God. When he returns to Waikinae, he will have the church there and Steiger folks to help him to grow in his faith and he hopes to come to a desciplechisp training school this fall in Minneapolis.

Ewa is a girl who came to David's speaking every day and talked with people afterwards every day, but something was holding her back. A few of us who talked with her saw that she wanted to take steps closer to God but felt a spiritual blockade in her and walls around her that only she was able to move. She said at one point that it felt like there were two ropes around her lungs pulling outwards. On the last day she prayed and asked God into her life and I could see the sweet gentleness and lightness of heart that had ovecome her darkness. Now she is in touch with the church in Wroclaw.

Also at the slot fest I was able to be a part of slot TV, using graphic design and motion graphics. Slot TV is an example of people coming together internationally to work on a project that can have an influence on many people, which is something that I am feeling God is calling me into. The only thing that draws everyone at the slot fest together every night is slot TV which is a media presentation of what has gone on during the day, interviews with festival-goers, silly animations and so on. I worked with my Polish feriends, Marcin, Ola and Rufio, who I will likely be working with in the future on media and print projects for Steiger. So this was a first fun and good trial run.

Thanks for reading and for your interest in what's going on in my life and what God has been doing in this time.

Love,
Christa