Polish Mission - Two Days in April

Though we study with individuals year round, we have just begun our spring classes with “imported” teachers from the states.  This week, two ladies, Gail Tomlinson and Ethelwyn Langston,  one from Mississippi and one from Alabama, arrived to help us with the large number of students who want to study the Bible in English. 

We thought it might be interesting to you to know something about the people with whom YOU are studying the Bible through US, for indeed, were it not for you who are supporting and praying for us, we could not do this great work.

During the first two days of classes we taught twenty-four hours of lessons.  Students ranged in age from 14 to 69 years-old and in education from a middle-school student to a doctor’s degree – in fact, we had two doctors. 

Several are high school or university students and others are a librarian, a kindergarten teacher, an English teacher, a businessman (owner of several cell phone outlets), a jazz pianist, a film maker/website designer, sales person in an optician’s office, a housewife and a captain in the Polish Coast Guard. 

Religiously, we had a Russian Orthodox, several Catholics, a Baptist, two evangelicals, the wife of a Pentecostal preacher, and an agnostic or two.

Distance-wise, one comes from down the street and one drives 45 minutes each way twice a week to study the Bible.

English levels ranges from very basic to fluent – one has a Master’s degree in the language.  Most are comfortably conversant in English.

They come in all shapes and sizes and with every color of hair you have ever seen and a few colors that you probably have not seen. (Polish women LOVE to color their hair various shades of red!)  They are mothers, fathers, husbands, wives, grandmothers, sons, daughters, friends and sweethearts: relationships that are as important - both in fulfilling and troublesome ways – as your relationships are to you.

The common denominator is that they, as we, are creatures of God, made in His image, and precious in His sight.  Jesus shed His precious blood for them whether they know it or not, and our task and aim is to bring this Good News to them.

Please pray for us and for Kasia and Jarek and Magda and Lucia and Barbara and Mariusz and Adam and Marisza and Malagorzata and . . . . 

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise,
as some men count slackness;

but is longsuffering to us-ward,

not willing that any should perish,

but that all should come to repentance.

II Peter 3:9