Below are some photos taken both inside and outside of Hallelujah’s Friday night prayer meeting from 9:00pm – midnight.
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30
Sep
08
Flying to Poland in 10 hours!
In ten hours my family and I are flying to Wroclaw (Vro-tslav), Poland. My wife I grew up there and I have lived there for four years. We will be participating in the 25th anniversary of a Catholic Charismatic fellowship Iwona helped start and lead. I will also be shooting a documentary there as well as doing research for a future film I would like to produce/direct on the issue of human-trafficking of Eastern European women.
Watch this three-minute video about Wroclaw. It’s a beautiful city!
This is part of the program of the 25th anniversary of the Catholic Charismatic fellowship, called “HalleluJah“, which Iwona helped start and lead in Wroclaw, Poland The first day will be kicked off by an outdoor evangelism event in the very center of Wroclaw with concerts, multi-media presentations, games for children, etc.
Six days ago, some friends in Poland took up an offering so that our family would be able to attend. With their donation, I was able to purchase four tickets for Iwona and our three children today! They will be leaving on September 30th.
I am now praying for the funds to come in within five days for my ticket and our expenses. I would like to shoot a documentary of this historic event.
St. Faustina Kowalska reported seeing a merciful Jesus, with beams of red and white light shining from his heart. 
In her diary, the cloistered mystic described a 1935 vision in which she was told the write down this prayer as protection from divine judgment: “Eternal Father, I offer You the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your dearly beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world; for the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.”
Some of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy thought the uneducated nun was unstable and the Vatican shunned her writings. But her visions impressed a young priest in nearby Krakow named Father Karol Wojtyla, who rose through the ranks from professor to bishop, archbishop and cardinal. Finally, he became Pope John Paul II.
The Polish pope was a champion of Faustina’s “Divine Mercy” devotions. He testified: “The message of Divine Mercy has always been near and dear to me.” In a sense, he said, it “forms the image of this pontificate.” On April 30, 2000, John Paul II canonized her as St. Faustina.
It was in 1937, a year before she died of tuberculosis, the 32-year-old nun had another apocalyptic vision of Jesus.
She wrote: “As I was praying for Poland, I heard the words: I bear a special love for Poland, and if she will be obedient to My will, I will exalt her in might and holiness. From her will come forth the spark that will prepare the world for My final coming.”
14
Sep
08
Who will stand for truth?
You have to watch this video by Grassroots Films. It’s awesome!
this election day
everything you hold sacred
will need your vote
vote your conscience
Biden and Pelosi, both Catholics, were asked about their stand on the issue of life at conception during recent TV interviews. Their answers which did not align with the teaching of the Catholic church, prompted a response from US Catholic bishops by publishing Fact sheet on pro-life and Church teaching on abortion.
KC bishops on moral responsibility and voting
“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have been praying for some time that God would break in on Catholic Charismatic fellowships in Poland. Iwona will be attending the 25th anniversary of a fellowship that she helped start called Hallelujah. The anniversary will take place October 4-11 in Wroclaw, Poland. If the funds come in, I would like our whole family to make the trip. I am praying that a fresh wind of renewal and revival would spread through the nation of Poland. That they would be a living example of what one of there own, John Paul ll, told the world to do.
A page taken from Hallelujah’s journal taken over two decades ago of some of the leaders. I put a yellow border around Iwona.
Center of Wroclaw, Poland
John Paul ll, in 2000, called all parishes to become schools of prayer and places where “training in holiness” is given.
Our Christian communities must become genuine “schools” of prayer, where the meeting with Christ is expressed not just in imploring help but also in thanksgiving, praise, adoration, contemplation, listening and ardent devotion, until the heart truly “falls in love”… It would be wrong to think that ordinary Christians can be content with a shallow prayer that is unable to fill their whole life.
He also cites several reasons why this turn to holiness of life and depth in prayer is important. Besides the fact that it is quite simply part and parcel of the Gospel message, he points out that the supportive culture of “Christendom” has virtually disappeared and that Christian life today has to be lived deeply, or else it may not be possible to live it at all.
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