Love and warm greetings from Wisla, Poland. How are you doing, dear Friends? I talk so much about our developments in Poland, but it would be great if you could describe what is your current health/life situation. With number of our e-coaches being personally affected by coronavirus, we pray even more and would gladly include you in prayers, Friends. Just let us know, please.
It is now 45 years, since we started our ministry, we could never have imagined where it would take us! We trusted the Lord and moved forward step by step, meeting the needs and grasping the opportunities that arose on the way; as engineers by trade we found this logical and natural.
Our calling was introducing people to Jesus and helping them to follow in His footsteps, not just “a decision” but a life-long commitment to discipleship.
Covid has made it impossible for us to celebrate as we normally would. But we can turn to our Lord anytime, with gratitude, giving Him all the glory for everything that has been achieved.
When I say “we” it is a whole army of dedicated people like you, *|FNAME|*, who have often been involved in a major roles, e.g. being on Boards (Polish and US, New Europe Communications), or members of our original music group, DEOdecyma (ten for God), etc.
It all started with the music band – Deodecyma. Can you find me in the picture?
Then, in 1989, exponential growth when freedom came to Poland after years of the hardships of Communism, we were ready for it!
With the help of some major donors, prompted by the Lord, we saw our dreams start to become reality.
Now in October 2020, we have 61 salaried staff plus partners, e-coaches and hundreds of volunteers, Thank you, Jesus! Several of our precious Friends, key friends, are with the Lord now. We look forward to seeing them one day in Heaven and a joyful reunion.
Scalability is one of the buzz words we really like. It is normal to witness to our neighbours, friends, co-workers on an individual level. But we, somehow, were prompted to reach people on a big scale, (Mt 28, 19-20) this is why we turned to the media and Internet.
It’s a huge challenge, competing for attention with the secular culture, and hugely expensive, but we are seeing it work! Nor is it easy to cover all the things that are involved simultaneously, many people find it difficult to take it all in.
Imagine hundreds of people focused for many hours every week on reaching and encouraging seekers, there is an abundance of stories of God working in individual lives. We are planning to publish many of them (in Polish) in the near future.
Just recently, with my wife, Bogusia, we visited Bishop Zdzislaw Tranda in Warsaw. For many years he was President of our Association. He is now 95 years old. Yes, many of you were instrumental for this work! Thank you, Jesus!
Visited Bishop Zdzislaw Tranda
But we do not live in the past. Our team consists of mainly young people, millennials, who bring their great ideas to develop the Lord’s Kingdom!
We want to make the best use of the Covid situation. We are planning many conferences (with limited numbers present) around Poland; each conference will be streamed to other hubs to gatherings of e-coaches.
Our creative team is preparing the next series of courses. The most popular so far is on”how to be freed from the habit of pornography”. In selecting new topics, we want to touch issues that are confronting many people.
“How to protect your baby from pornography” – new course for parents, well prepared and completely free. Great “entry point” to our other evangelistic courses.
“How to study the Bible” – fascinating new course about deepening your understanding of the Bible.
We face a financial pressure now for obvious reasons; e.g. radio advertising revenue dropped by 50%, we are struggling to bridge the gap. For the first time we have turned to users of our platforms in Poland to ask for their prayerful and, if God so leads, practical support. Our IT team have devised a simple way of making donations online.
Also, this month, with a help of our Board member, Hank Paulson, (President of 4D Ministries in States), we are able to have in the US a simple donation path that would allow US tax exempt receipt will be delivered from 4D ministries. There are some items that would greatly increase our reach. *|FNAME|*, promotion on YouTube of our courses immediately bring in many new people! Even 50 dollars make a big difference! Actually it adds, based on our experience – 20 new people to sign into our on-line courses, 6 of them finishes them and switch to thee next level of relationship! Transforming lives by God’s Spirit!
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Friends, we deeply appreciate your Friendship! Together, we may change the World, in the power of Holy Spirit!
Henio
Krol’s family, September 2020
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