2.27.2013
Three Baptisms
On our Church profile on Facebook you can see the pictures from joyful event which we had last Sunday: three baptisms and membership Magda's household. If you don't have account on Facebook, please click HERE.
2.20.2013
A visit to the hospital
One of men which found us thanks to evangelism with Chorale Gaudete – CREC choir – has been in psychiatric hospital with depression for 2 months. When I visited him two ladies (65 and 35) joined us in discussion and asked a lot of question about our beliefs, the church. During the next visit they invited 2-3 more people and we discussed in a small group in one of their rooms. I am conscious of their emotional problems but they are not disabled people, I would say that their problem is also spiritual and they are spiritual hungry people.
I visit them twice a week, we talk about their challenges, problems, they promised me to visit our church after leaving but the biggest encouragement is praying with these people at the end of every visit. During the first prayer they asked me how to pray? They heard my prayer and then every person said: Maybe I could try. Now it’s your turn. One of them prayed: “Father, I ask you that I can leave this place so I could do a lot of funny but good things and that I can bring chocolate and cigarettes for my friends here”.
:-)
I visit them twice a week, we talk about their challenges, problems, they promised me to visit our church after leaving but the biggest encouragement is praying with these people at the end of every visit. During the first prayer they asked me how to pray? They heard my prayer and then every person said: Maybe I could try. Now it’s your turn. One of them prayed: “Father, I ask you that I can leave this place so I could do a lot of funny but good things and that I can bring chocolate and cigarettes for my friends here”.
:-)
2.19.2013
Summer Mission to Gdansk
Short presentation Peter Mahar's about Gdansk as mission field.
Evangelos from Miwaza Jemimah on Vimeo.
Evangelos from Miwaza Jemimah on Vimeo.
2.18.2013
Short Summary of 2012
Last year we had a lot of
opportunities for preaching the Gospel, fellowship, witnessing by showing far
reaching and practical ramification of the Gospel. The Church is growing slowly
but is growing.
Poland is still a very difficult
mission field for two reasons:
- impact of secularism from Western
Europe
- still a strong position of the Roman
Catholic Church (95% of Polish people are Catholics)
Summary of 2012
We are grateful to the Lord Jesus
for everything which we experienced. Among the
many challenges I would like to share with you most important events of last
year:
- We continued to homeschool
3 our children (Zuzia 9, Janek 7, Maja 5 years old)
- We changed a few things in our
liturgy: lifting up hands during singing Gloria Parti and Lord’s Prayer,
singing Doxology after Benediction, three readings instead of two, recitation
1-2 questions and answers from Heidelberg Catechism after Apostle’s (or Nicene)
Creed, new melody of singing Psalms in responsive way
- We held regular meetings in
Coffee Shops titled “Worldviews among us” (we had a lot of discussions after
each presentation)
- Open concerts of our Christian
music band
- We held regular open lectures on
Reformation and Five Solas at the University of Gdansk
- Summer evangelism at the Old
Town where we had our church’s stand ("sketchboard", two tables with
free literature, invitations and opportunity for a lot of conversations with
people)
- Family Camp in May in the
mountains
- Creationism vs Evolutionism Conference (“What Darvin
didn’t know?”) with British scientist Andy McIntosh. We had over 80 people
attend (besides the people from our church).
- I was involved in an internet
public polemic about childrearing with a famous Polish TV star (the program is
called: Supernanny). There were almost 600 comments and survey where 65% of
people supported necessity of physical discipline (in some situations)
- I wrote an article about
homeschooling to a nation wide Polish magazine
- As family we also participate in
Royal Rangers ministry. My wife is one of the leaders in Gdansk.
- I was a speaker at the
conference for fathers at the Pentecostal Church.
-My blog ministry is bringing a
lot of fruit. I have an average of 150
daily readers. It seems that it became one of the more influential “arms” of
sharing biblical (reformed) view on reality.
2.16.2013
Public polemic with TV Supernanny
One of the famous Polish TV Show Star: “Supernanny” – Dorota Zawadzka
criticized on her Facebook profile an article by Doug Wilson about spanking which had been published on the
website of our quaterly magazine “Reformacja w Polsce” and our church website
(translation from Credenda Agenda). I wrote a
response to that on my blog.
The most popular web-service in Gdansk, Sopot,
Gdynia (3 cities close to themselfes) published an article on their main page
about the debate of “TV supernany and pasor from Gdansk”. I was surprised that
most of 520 commentaries supported my view on discipline and childrearing.
Alost 1600 people voted in the survey under the articles. 67% of them agreed
with biblical view on spanking. Amazing.
I think it was
very profitable thing because a lot of people in Poland are afraid to say what
they think because of government legislation that’s been issued some months ago
which defines spanking as a civil crime (violence). Thanks God it is not
illegal to share publicly different worldview than Polish government. This is
why that discussion was very important and necessary.
Here is the link
to that article.
Lent CREC Devotions 2013
Uri Brito informs at his blog that through the labors of Pastor Steve Hemmeke, the CREC is making available a Lenten Devotional for personal and family use. The PDF version can be found here: Lent CREC Devotions 2013
Among contributors you can find Steve Wilkins, Todd Davis, Duane Garner, Randy Booth, Brian L. Penney, Ben House, Gregg Strawbridge.
I also wrote one of the devotionals.
Each devotional ends with an application and/or prayer, which is often on the following page, after the name of the author. There are three devotionals for each week, and six for holy week.
Among contributors you can find Steve Wilkins, Todd Davis, Duane Garner, Randy Booth, Brian L. Penney, Ben House, Gregg Strawbridge.
I also wrote one of the devotionals.
Each devotional ends with an application and/or prayer, which is often on the following page, after the name of the author. There are three devotionals for each week, and six for holy week.
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