While I was preaching about a lady in our church who would go outside before the meetings and invite people to come in to hear God’s Word, a man got up and left. I thought he had gone outside to take care of something because he left his bag at his seat. In about 15 minutes, he returned with another lady and her eight-year-old daughter. She stayed and heard the Gospel and then spent the rest of the day with us in our afternoon gathering. She told me of her burdens and heartaches. She really enjoyed herself and opened up a lot to us. One of our ladies later went and spent several hours with her to minister to her more about God’s Word.

We renewed our visas for five more years. We would like you to pray that we could get a citizenship card, which would be for ten years. It could either come from my Polish ancestry or a Presidential request.

We are in the United States getting advice about Jolie’s health. God has given us many blessings since we came to the States. First of all, we’ve been able to rest and relax. Then a lady in our sending church offered to come back to Poland with us and help Jolie and me. Jolie still needs some care and cannot help me much at home.

God is providing for our needs. Sometimes we didn’t even realize we had those needs. God also gave us kind people from our church who had also experienced a stroke, and they were able to encourage Jolie. We got to have a meeting with our sending-church pastor, which also directed our steps further in our needs. We hope to have some new plans when we return to Poland. We have been blessed to attend many good churches here in Northwest Indiana for this brief stay while getting medical help for Jolie.

There have been many visitors in our church while we are away. We thank God for His gift of Bro. and Mrs. Gary (Lisa) Zdzarski, who are filling our places while we are gone. Right before we left for the United States, we had a picnic at our house. We had two Ukrainian ladies attend; one has a little son who came with her. We also had two Indian women visitors who came with an Indian lady who attends our church. We also had many of our faithful Polish people attend the picnic, which was held at our home. A lady, whom we had prayed about for some months, has started coming to church since we left. A man whom we were praying for came back to church too. Pastor Gary got to lead a lady to the Lord in the church who had been attending but was not saved. Hopefully, we’ll have some baptisms when we get back.

God has provided many people to fill in for us as we’ve been gone. One Polish brother who lived in Australia for 17 years just came back about 5 months ago. He lives 2 hours from our church and desires to have a church started in his own city. His former pastor counseled him to come to our church until one is established in his city. He has been a lot of help to Brother Gary with translating for him in the Sunday meetings. Another Polish brother got a friend of his to translate for the midweek meetings. All of the people have been more engaged since we have been gone, finding needs and filling them, for which we are very grateful. We have three church-plant ideas we would ask you to pray about; pray that God would give the help, the wisdom, and the guidance needed in getting these established.

More than conquerors,

Paul & Jolie Sock