08 Apr Poland: Work Resumes on a New Church

Arek and Donna Delik (right), UB missionaries in Poland working with Operation Mobilization, sent their April newsletter, which gives an update on their building project. Last fall, their church bought a building which they plan to use not only for church services and other meetings, but as a rehabilitation center for helping people with addictions (especially alcohol) and as a teen center. They worked into February, finishing most of the interior demolotion, and then took a break as freezing weather his Poland. Now, with spring’s arrival, they resumed work. Donna writes:

Arek and our brothers started working in the site again on March 14. We had planned to finish the rest of the demolition work in two weeks, which included tearing down the old roof. However, the work was put on hold after 3 days as the weather turned bad and we didn’t have enough volunteers.

We did wonder whether we could complete the task. Since there was no one we could turn to except God, we committed our situation into his hands.
Miracles happened in the second week. God not only granted us the needed weather, but a friend of a friend, who had a family-run construction company, came with 4 other family members, including a 60-year-old grandmother, and they tore down the roof for us. We were stunned as they ripped off the whole roof in 2 days and only took the wood back home as their payment.

Another friend of a friend came with his big trucks and removed tons of rubble from our building site for one-fifth of the normal cost. We had to load the big truck by ourselves. Our men were completely exhausted after several loads and couldn’t do it anymore. A digging truck, which was passing by, came to their rescue. Arek stopped the truck and asked the driver to give us a hand, and he happily did it without taking any money.

It is beyond our comprehension, for so much has been done in such a short time. We didn’t understand why those strangers, non-believers, showed such favor to us.

Step by step we are moving forward, and God has amazed us and blessed us through all kinds of support which has poured in from different directions. We know that we still have a long way to go, but so far we are very encouraged

As the demolition comes to an end, we look forward to the next phase: building a new roof. The old one, we decided, was beyond repairing. This will require three different firms to do the job. We also hope to do the roof insulation and basic utilities during this phase.

We hope to finish all of this by the end of June if funding is available, which is around $55,000 US. God has been supplying all of our need so far, and we continue to trust him for meeting our needs.