Department ofMissions - Polish MinistryEASTERN CHRISTIAN COLLEGE

P.O. Box 629

Bel Air, Maryland 21014

Phone: 3Q1-734-7250

Guidance Committee:

Kenneth Meade,SecretaryHoward Brammer

Mark Howes

Carroll Kakac

Adam J. Korenczuk

Ron Lowry

C. Wayne MurphyBill Oates

Ivan C. Odor

Danny Pelfrey

Bill Smith

1980 - 1989 brought many changes in the political and economical world.The Iron Curtain is disappearing. Many enslaved nations chose freedom. Many dictatorial leaders were deposed.But our LEADER, JESUS CHRIST, "is the same yeasterday, today, and forever."HE is the greatest CONQUEROR and freedom GIVER.The Gospel is the same and has the great power unto salvation to all whobelieve.

I. THE LAST DECADE WAS VERY FRUITFUL IN OUR MINISTRY IN POLAND.

1. Our working force /ministers and evangelists/ grew in number from 20 to40. All of them are dedicated servants of the Lord and work dilligen-tly in a very hard field.

2. 15 new churches and mission places were established.

3. 7 buildings were bought and adapted to church services, 4 buildings wererenovated and enlarged, 3 buildings are being build.

4. A place for a Mission Center and the Correspondence Bible Seminary werepurchased.

5. The Home for Senior Citizens was completely rebuild.

6. Several organs and other musical instruments were purchased.

7. A Multipurpose Building was build at the Christian Service Camp in Ost-roda.

8. Financial assistance was given for training young men for the ministry.

9. Several hundred souls were baptized into Christ.

10. Thousands Bibles in Polish and Russian languages were purchased and dis-

NEW DECADE

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Paul Bajko, Director

Irek Woloszczyk, i^ssociate

January, 1990

Church Building being build in Bielsk Podlaski

tributed in Poland and Russia,

To all the various ministries in Poland the Department of Missions - PolishMinistry contributed in the last decade over S 1,000.000.00.

II. HERE ON THIS SIDE OF OCEAN, WE WERE INVOLVED IN EXTENSIVETRAVELS AND HARD WORK.

1. In the last 10 years I led over 100 Faith Promise Rallies and spoke inhundreds of Churches.

2. The publication of our monthly Polish magazine "The Guidepost" was increased from 750 copies to 1500.

3. Several thousands of Song Books, Chorus Books, Harmony of the Science andScripture^ Life of Christ, visualized and Book of Acts were published ^ndshipped to Poland.

4. Medicine, food and clothing were sent to Poland,

5. Thousands of letters were answered.

6. Irek Woloszczyk was added to the staff of the Department of Missions,

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New Mission Place in Lazisko - Gorne

7. We worked with the Slavic Church of Christ in Baltimore, Maryland.

8. Cassettes with songs and messages were sent to Poland and other countries,

9. Radio programs were prepared.

10. Several trips were made to Poland and several preachers were brought fromPoland to get aquainted with their living-link churches.

III. NOW A NEW DECADE IS BEFORE US into which we entered on our knees

thanking God for the past and asking for strength and help inwinning more souls fo Christ.OUR AIM IS:

1. To double the number of churches in Poland.

2. To continue the ministry in publication, supplying churches in Poland withliterature and Bibles.

3. To support financially and spiritually every effort of our faithful ministers in Poland,

4. To enforce radio ministry through IBRA station.

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5. To send more help in this very difficult time in Poland where fuel, electricity, food, clothind, etc. not only doubled in price but went upsometimes 600%

Like in the past we are able to do the work only with your support andprayers.

Because of you we were able to accomplish much in Poland and we believethat much more will be done.

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For your support, prayers, love and concern we thank you very much.May the Lord bless you real goot^!

IREK WOLOSZCZYK is available for Mission Rallies,Faith Promise Rallies and to preach and speak inchurches.

He is a very capable young man, a great servantof the Lord.

He preaches, sings and presents the program ofthe work in Poland. '

The dates are opened - February through May andSeptember through December.

For appoitments please call or write to the Department of Missions - Polish Ministry.

FINANCIAL REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MISSIONS - POLISH MINISTRY

FOR 1989

INCOME: 1. Balance from 1988 460.04

2. Received from Churches and individuals 237,876.36TOTAL 238,336.40

EXPENDIRURES:

1. Living - link support...|2. Housing3. Insurances, Soc. Sec. Hospit. Taxes...4. Utilities

5. Office Supl., Teleph., CPA service....6. Promotion i7. POLAND: preachers, buildings, medicine8. Literature and Bibles

9. Miscellaneous

10. Transfer to Polish Church buildings...TOTAL

BALANCE ON DEC. 31,1989 ... £ 81.38

53,117.528,610.00

16,121.171,577.683,909.14

12,647.5796,662.1410,000.00

1,109.7034,500.00

238,255.02

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Department ofMissions - Polish MinistryEASTERN CHRISTIAN COLLEGEGuidance Commiltee:

KennethMeade, Secrefary P.O. Box 629Howard Brammer Bel Air, Maryland 21014 Paul Bajko, DirecforMark Howes Phone" 301 -734-7250 Woloszczyk. AssoctofeCarroll Kakac

Adam J. Korenczuk

Ron Lowry

Robert Martin May, 1990C. Wayne Murphy

Bill Oates

Ivan C. Odor

Danny Pelfrey Jr^ and JUdiBill Smith Woloszczyk vill be in Poland

this sumoer. ""^||||||h

Following their wedding on Junethe 2nd, Irek and Judi will departto Poland. They will spend 30 daysthere visiting the Polish Churches,preaching the Gospel, attending theChristian Service camp and the Re-

for Christian

They will meet there Paul Baj-ko who will also be in Poland on a

20 days trip for a special conference with all our Polish preachers and workers in order to evaluate the economical and spiritual situation in the coimtry.

In addition to preaching, Irek will minister with singing - one of his manybeautiful talents! He and Judi will get acquainted with all our preachers andwith the Polish Ministry as a whole.

After their return from Poland, Irek will be available for speaking appointments in churches and for leading Faith Promise Rallies in the fall of 1990and next year. Irek will then also be available for Christian Service camps.

Irek's trip to Poland, i.e. round trip airplane ticket and the traveling expenses in Poland, will cost $ 1,500.00. So far he was able to raise $735.00,almost the half of the needed amount. We ask you to help us with the remaining $ 765.00.Please, send your contributions to our address: Department of Missions -Polish Ministry, P.O. Box 629, Bel Air, MD 21014, with the note: Irek's trip toPoland. Thank you.

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Paul Bajko, Director

Irek Woloszczyk, Assoctofe

May, 1990

The 30th Anniversaryof the SLAVIC CHURCH OF CHRIST

in Baltimore, MD

ililiiillMllii!

The Slavic Church of Christ which was started by the Department of Missionsin 1960 will celebrate this year# on May 20th, her Tliirtieth Anniversary!

The history of the Slavic Church is very unique. In 1960, there were no morethan 6 people meeting in a private home at first, and then in rented facilities of a Methodist Church. When in 1961 the small congregation of 12 memberswas incorporated as a Church, it then purchased its own church building.People gave sacrificially toward the payments for the building and, at thesame time, toward the Church program. jThe growth of the Church was slow, but steady. At the present time, the SlavicChurch counts 44 members with an average attendance of 55.

In 1961, the congregation called Bro. Adam Korenczuk as their minister whohas been ministering there till the present time.

In 1970, the congregation became totally self-supporting and started to support 9 different mission programs in Poliand, South America, and the USA. Thegeneral giving grew from $ 800.00 per year in 1960 to $35,000.00 in 1989!

The Slavic Church is unique also because of its unity. The congregation consists of people of different nationalities: Polish, Russian, Ukrainian andAmerican. Its services are in all those languages! Each Lord's Day the Gos-

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pel is preached in English, Polish, Russian and/or Ukrainian. Each servicehas at least 4 songs sung in all those different languages! And at the Lord'sTable, the meditation is given in one language while the prayers are in another two languages.

The Slavic Church's choir sings beautifully in all four languages as welland it can be heard on a Church sponsored local radio program each Sunday.

We thank God for such a unique Church, with still the same Old Message, thewonderful Gospel of Jesus Christ, which, although proclaimed in differentlanguages, still is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes! „ , „

- Paul Bajko

nd * News from Poland * Ne NEWS FROM POLAND * News from Poland * News

Chapel of the new Gryfice Church of Christ

"Dear Bro. Bajko,

We wanted to inform you that by the grace of our Lord and with the Word andprayer, on January 21st of this year, we have dedicated our new worship place!

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About 120 persons attended our dedication service and all could not haveseated places. Many people from our town were present there that day. Myprayer is that our chapel may soon be filled with Christians as many as therewere people during that dedication service.

We thank the Lord Jesus for you, Brothef, for helping us purchase that houseof worship. We are glad that Bro. Irek Woloszczyk will be with us this summer. I know his parents very well and ^im also from his childhood years.Once again, thank you very, very much for everything! Words are not enough toexpress my gratitude. Greetings to youu^nd all those working with you!

- Henryk Zagrodnik, Minister in Gryfice."

hiarsaM Churcb of Christ:

"Dear Bro. Bajko,

We are very grateful for the opportunit:l.es that the Lord provides for us toserve Him and for making His Church here in Poland grow, especially recently.Through God's Word people come to know the Lord and turn to Him, this for Hisglory and our joy! \Thank God, we have less room in our chapel this year than a year ago! We hadto make a decision to have a double wo^hip service on Sundays because of thelack of space.Our efforts to enlarge our existing facilities will soon come to realization.God willing, we will move on this year with the construction works.The money that we received from you - $ 5,000.00- came at a proper time. Wethank you very much for it! This gift is for us one more evidence that Godhas His faithful servants through whom He builds up His Church.We thank God for your ministry. Its harvest will be saved sinners and growingchildren of God here In Poland. _ Christ-

"Dear Bro. Bajko,

The Holidays are gone. Christmas and itsj charms and worries are behind us now.But how pleasant it was for us to see once again your kindness, care and concern for us here in Poland. We thank you very much for all the wonderfulthings that were sent to us as Christmas gifts. Ham, coffee, shampoo and soapare but material things, and yet they express so well your love and concernfor us here. And so, again, thank you fcjr them - for that!We pray for the blessing on your ministry and wish you God's blessing in thisnew year 1990! _ Bajenski, Minister in Warsaw."

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Deparimeni ofMissions - Polish MinistryEASTERN CHRISTIAN COLLEGE

P.O. Box 629

Bel Air, Maryland 21014

Phone: 301-734-7250

Guidance Committee:

Kenneth Meade, Secretary

Howard Brammer

Mark Howes

Carroll Kakac

Adam J. Korenczuk

Ron Lowry

Robert Martin

C. Wayne Murphy

Bill Oales

Ivan C. Odor

Danny Peifrey

Bill Smith

A SPEEDY TRIP TO POLAND

Paul Bajko, Director

Irek W6\oszczyk, Associate

August 1990

Paul Bajko preaching in Bielsk Podlaski

I left for Poland June 11th and arrived in Warsaw by 7 AM June 12th.I immediately met for a couple of hours with the Executive Committee of theChurches of Christ in Poland. After a small lunch/ I visited several honesand then, at 6 FM/ I preached at the Pulawska Street Church of Christ whereI was presented by the congregation with flowers in appreciation for vitalinterest in the work of the church, for the financial support of preachers,for the building of the old chapel and enlarging the present facilities.Bros. Andrew Bajenski and Bronislaw Hury preach the Gospel there.

Next day, June 13th, early in the morning, together with Bro. HenrykSacewicz, I departed to the Southern part of Poland where, in three days, Ipreached in Sosnowiec, Glubczyce and Rybnik, and met all the area preachers:K. Sacewicz, K. Barczuk, Z. Skiba, K. Paterak, E. Gutkowski, J. Sciwiarski,

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New church building in Zalesie

W. Rakus and P. Juszczyk. We discussed the progress of the work/ the need formore churches and building programs. We also viewed the new building in Rybnikwhich is very efficient. There is a beautiful bookstore at the church whereeach day dozens of customers come to purchase books/ Bibles, literature, cards,etc.

June 16th, early in the morning, we headed for Biala Podlaska where Bro.Peter Bronowicki, Sr. preaches. On the way there we stopped for three hours atMuratyn and had a short service. There is a small country church in a very remote area and they long for fellowship with other Christians. Bro. Sacala isthe preacher of that church. We reached Biala Podlaska very late.

On Sunday June 17th we had a service at 10 AM. The chapel was filled withpeople. After a quick lunch we drove 50 km (35 miles) to see the new churchbuilding which is being built in Zalesie, where Bro. P. Bronowicki, Jr. is min-istring. The work is progressing rapidly there. They plan to dedicate thatbuilding next year.

For the evening service we went to Siemiatycze where Bro. A. Zegunia isministering. Also that evening we discussed the work in Czama Srednia andthe need for a building there. Bro. E. Hetmaniok is the minister of the churchin Czama Srednia and he also sends Bibles to Russia.

Next day, June 18th, from the early morning, we visited Milejczyce andSielc. In the afternoon, we arrived to Bielsk Podlaski where Bro. Kostek Ja-koniuk is the minister. There we saw great progress in the construction worksof the new church building. Lord willing that sanctuary will be dedicated nextyear at the 70th Anniversary of the Churches of Christ in Poland in the datesof June 29 & 30, 1991.

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On June 19-22, we had services in Suwalki, Ostroda# Lidzbark- Warminskiand Gdynia where Bros. J. Szymczuk, J. Puszcz and S. Kobus are ministering.In Gdynia, we met together with Irek and Judi Woloszczyk who, after a shorthoneymoon, went also to Poland. (Irek's trip report will be in our next newsletter .)

June 22nd we were in Zlotow - a new place for us. A year ago, we purchased a building there and Bro. Matulewicz, an elder of the church in Kolo-brzeg, moved to lead the work there. He rotiodeled and adapted the buildingfor worship services. That day we had the first service with the sanctuaryfilled with 50 people! From a recent letter I found out that already two soulsrequested baptism.

June 23rd we were in Gryfice where also a former elder of the Kolobrzegchurch is preaching, Bro. H. Zagrodnik. This church exists only two years andit has already two fast growing mission station-'

Baptismal service in Polczyn-Zdroj

Sunday 24th was an exciting day. By 9 Am, imder cloudy skies, havegathered by a huge lake in Polczyn-Zdroj for a baptismal service of ten souls!And by 4 PM the same day we were already in Kolobrzeg for another baptismalservice where five arniig were immersed in a beautiful baptistry. Bro. PeterKarel is leading that fastest growing church in Poland.

June 25th we went to Bialogard to view the situation there and to seethat the work on the new building is progressing. They need $12,000.00 in order to finish the sanctuary and move the services from a small garage type ofsanctuary to the new beautiful building.

June 26th we went back to Ostroda where we held an all day long meetingwith the Executive Conmittee discussing their problems, needs, oi^hasis on

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evangelism, need for more teaching/ treiining preachers, organizing the SundaySchools, and so on. Also in Ostroda, ' thanks to the IntematicHial Disasterfinergancy Servicses who contributed $ 15,000.00, we were able to purchase15 tons of canned meat and 8 tons of sugar which were distributed among thechurches in Poland.

Summarizing my unscheduled trip, I can say that I am glad I went. Thisfor several reasons;

1. I saw how people cope with the failing econany;

2. I saw how Christians open their homes for visitors and how they save everypenny to serve the best meals for their guests. There is enough of foodin the stores, but things are very expensive. Some items are more expensive than in the USA while an average Polish income is only $80 a month!

3. I saw how Christians share with non Christians. Each church decided to shareat least 1/3 of the food which was bought for $15,000 with the most needypeople. It is a great witness to tte whole coiranunity!

4. I witnessed how churches which are in building programs give sacrificiallyto buy material and how they work diligently themselves to save the laborcost;

ministers5. I saw the fruits of labor of our

Almost in every church there were r<

6. I saw the need for a home for orph^i

7. I saw the need for literature, Bibl^and films, etc.;

8. I saw the need for new church build]

enlargement of the present ones, ne^attend the academy of theology in Wclfor $ 60,000.00 for those projects.

who faithfully preach the gospel,'^ent baptismal services;

s and abandoned chilc^en;

s, musical instruments, Christian videos

ngs, renovation of the old buildings,for a dormitory for the students who

rsaw. Just for today there is a need

Christians in Poland really NEED cmr prayers and finances.

We express our deep gratitude to I,Distry by sending $15,000.00 for the food

toward songbooks and Bibles!

May the Lord bless you for your prayers, financial support, love offering,advice, love and concern for the work in Poland!

i.E.S. for their part in the Polish Min-this summer, and recently $2,000.00

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Paul Bajko