Update: Team Poland 2007

Here is my previous post on Team Poland where my friend Nathan French is helping change the world.

This weekend they went to Auschwitz.

Here is a excerpt from the post from one of the team members - Susan V.

Saturday morning we went to Auschwitz. Even now, it's hard for me to know where to start in describing the absolute sense of injustice and death that is in that place. It got to the point, at least for me, that I had to force myself to stay and look, because there was such an urge to just check out mentally or even run away physically because of the horrendous reality of what happened in those very buildings. A few times, I did have to just walk away to avoid physically getting sick. But at the same time, I knew that God had spoken to me to keep my eyes open. Go through, see all that was to be seen, but look foward and keep your eyes open. To often we close our eyes in situations like that, and we miss the triumph of the ending because we stop with death and don't continue to the resurrection. (back to the theme of the trip.) Something that Nathan said really makes sense in this context - you have to always have a devil in your theology, otherwise you can never truly know God because you will attribute things to Him that are most certainly not His doing. With so many deaths that were truly unecessary and unprovoked, it is clear to see how much the devil hates God and anything associated with God or that brings God pleasure. Walking through the camps, it was hard to get my mind away from asking God "Where are you in all of this? Where were you when this happened?" I'm so glad that God doesn't get offended when we ask things like that. The most impactful thing for me was walking through the gas chambers and crematorium, knowing that on that very place, within those very walls, thousands of people were murdered and their bodies burned. If you've never heard the ground cry out for justice before, it's a scary thing. I just thank God that we have the blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel, the blood of millions of aborted children, the blood of years upon years of war, and the blood of over 6 million victims of the Holocaust.