THE

CB(R"O Crier of Good News... shout with the voice of a trumpet blast... your God is coming."

Isaiah

GLOBAL MISSIONARY MINISTRIES MISSION STATEMENT

Global Missionary Ministriesexists to proclaim and disseminate Christ s unchanging message of salvationto the peoples ofpost-communist Central and Eastem Europe. Working in partnership with local nationalbelievers, we strive to help and encourage in the building of strong self-supporting congregations, whichadhere to the teachings of the Bible and effectivelypropagate themselves among both the younger and

older sectors of today s changing world.

As we embark on a new year and a new century, it isgood for all of us to consider what we are living and working for. We of GMM recently discussed this issue with our Board ofDirectors and were challenged toreconfirm a Mission Statement forGMM. The result is given above. Wewould like to briefly comment onpoints mentioned in the statement.

The Good News or Gospel of Jesus Christ wasnever meant to be changed. We find this stated inScripture in many ways. For example, the Apostle Paulencouraged believers to contend for the faith that wasonce for all entrusted to the saints. Also, in the Book ofRevelation we are told of a flying angel who had theeternal Gospel to proclaim to those who live on theearthta every nation, tribe, language and people.Notice that Christ's Good News (called here the faith )was once for all entrusted to saints, which means thatit was given as an unchangingmessage for all generations tocome. Also, when we read of theeternal Gospel this clearly

implies that its message is totieproclaimed throughout all generations and will be appreciated even in eternity.EverythingGMM does, therefore, itdoes to proclaim andspread the Bible's unchanging message of salvationthrough faith and obedience to Jesus Christ.

Notice also the words quoted from the Book ofRevelation that the eternal Gospel is to be preached andspread throughout every nation, tribe, language andpeople. This simply means that the Good News of theBible has not and never was meant to be limited to oneparticular people group. As Paul states. There is neitherJew nor Greek... foryou are allone inChrist Jesus (Gal.3:28). Thus, we must alsopreach to the many peoples ofpost-communist Central andEastem Europe. God has calledand equipped us in terms of lan-

guage, culture and ethnic background to minister to thisarea of the world, and we want to be faithful in this.

Writing to the Philippian believers, the Apostle Paul expresses hisjoy for their partnership in theGospel from the first day until now.Paul understood that the work of theGospel must be done In partnership with believers in their particu

lar localities. He depended on them to do their part,although he was prepared to assist them in any way hecould and pray for them on a regular basis. We labour inpartnership with local believers and encourage them tobuild vibrant churches for God's glory. We, the missionaries, cannot do the work of the Gospel alone and GMMworks in cooperative endeavours with local believers tobuild up existing churches and establish new ones.GMM supports such efforts but only with the goal thatthese congregations, in due course, will become self-

supporting and self-propagating,therefore, not dependent onfunds coming from outside. Webelieve this is for the greaterhealth of local national believersand their congregations.

These churches must also preach the eternal truthsof God's Word, not wavering in their adherence toBiblical doctrines and teaching. While the messageremains the same, methods of presentation can bedetemnined by the society in which the national believerslive. Included in this is our commitment to assisting thosewho work with youth through local churches, camps orother contemporary means. At the same time we do notwant to overlook the older sector of society.

We thank you, all of our friends and supporters, forpartnering with us and with other faithful believers of

Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania andPoland with whom we are working. Because of Gods faithfulness and your help the Lord isbuilding His Kingdom there.

Our Purpose

Topresent the unchanging messageof Christ to a changing worid

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Our Motto

Yesterday, today and forever - Jesus is the same

Our Method

Woridng through national Christians makes sense!

JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2001

Memorial Fund Activities

In this issue of The Crier we would like to share withyou, friends of GMM, an update on the lives of a few students whom we were able to help in recent years throughthe Benjamin Bajenski Memorial Fund (BBMF).

It is a joy for us to know that nothing that we entrustinto God s hand is wasted. Since one life that could havebeen effectively used by the Master has fallen, God isturning this seeming defeat into a series of His victories.Through the lives of these and other students that wereblessed by your love and giving to the BBMF, the Gospelof our Lord Jesus Christ is being heard. PTL! Thank you,friends, and please continue to remember this ongoingministry in days ahead.

Jeff Ponke and Amy Johnston

Unless a seed falls to the ground and dies Elevenyears ago this seed was Benjamin Bajenski. Through themighty working of God for good in this tragedy a miracleoccurred in the life of Jeff Ponke. At the funeral I saw thepeace that passes all understanding and realized thehope we have, the only hope we have in the One morepowerful than the grave. After reading the Bible and hearing God s quiet call, I stepped forward and was baptizedon May 26, 1991. From then on the Lord has led me onone adventure after another. Now with the immensity ofthe Gospel impressed on my heart and the Lord s imminent return, I find myself on the homestretch of my four-year medical degree. God has not only blessed my coming and going, He has also given me the ability to do wellin medical school and, most of all, has brought about oneof those happy coincidences when He allowed my pathto intersect with Amy Johnston s.

Amy is a 3rd year nursing student and we met at theChristian Medical and Dental Society meetings over ayear ago. I was attracted to her pretty face, brilliant eyesand red hair, as well as her godly heart and love for theLord. She is a treasure beyond words. We dated a few

months followed by a few months apart she in theOrient sharing the Gospel and me on elective time. Onher return our relationship stepped up a notch and climaxed in a whirlwind day of kayaking in the ThousandIslands, a horse-and-carriage ride, dinner at the GeneralWolfe Hotel, a sunset, a question, a ring and answer:Yes!!

We are to be married on June 1st (George Bajenskiwill be conducting the wedding). The Lord will be beforeus and we are both preparing to serve Him wherever Hewould call us Africa? Eastern Europe? The MiddleEast? South America? The Orient? First, we must finishour respective training about three years of residencyfor me, Lord willing, in Family Practice and one more yearfor Amy in Nursing. It is a long haul, but wherever you are,you can always serve the Lord. God s blessing on you.Jeff Ponke

John, Amanda and Rebekah Barczuk

After ten years, by God s grace, I am once again inLincoln Christian College. This time. Lord witling, I planon finishing my studies. Because I don t like to do thingshalf-heartedly, I left my career as a research and development chemist and returned to LCC to study music ministry with an emphasis on piano and composition. After Ifinish my studies, I will work full-time in Christian ministry.Ten years ago I was alone in Lincoln. This time my wife,Amanda, and my daughter, Rebekah, make us a family ofthree, so we ask for your prayers threefold.

John and Amanda Barczuk

Dariusz Brycko with Vera BajenskiHi! My name is Dariusz Brycko. i was born and raised

in Warsaw, Poland.Currently I am studying Church History at Gordon-

Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts. I amvery thankful to God for His grace and the opportunity ofstudying in this world-renowned seminary. I decided tostudy church history (emphasis in historical theology)because I feel a great passion for discovering how God sWord was interpreted throughout history. Learning fromthe victories and failures of our Christian forefathershelps me to see the direction in which Evangelicalsshould be developing. Someone said that when we forgetour history, we are bound to repeat its mistakes.

One could ask, but what are you going to do with adegree in Church History? Well, I am not exactly surewhat I will be doing, but I know that I would like to teacheither in a seminary, Bible school or university. Also, I seemy future plans closely related with Radio Mazury andthe work of the Christian Mutual Help Foundation inPoland.

Thank you for all your prayers that will help me to gothrough my studies. God bless you. Dariusz Brycko

Adam Szumorek

When bad things happen to people, they usually ask,why? When 1 look at my life and the amount of bless

ings that I have received from God, I also cannot help butask why? God saved me when I was ten years old. Healso gave me an opportunity to study at the WarsawTheological Seminary. Next, he opened for me the doorfor ministry in my home church in Olsztyn, Poland, whereI served as an assistant pastor.

Then He provided me with another opportunity tocontinue my theological education for one year inCanada. Right now I am doing work for an MA Degree inthe area of preaching at Lincoln Christian Seminary inLincoln, Illinois. God also gave me purpose for livingsince my desire is to go back to Poland and become apreacher of the Word of God and a teacher of homiletics.

My ultimate goal is to help others to get ready to fulfill the privileged task of proclaiming the Word of Godfaithfully and effectively.

As I reflect on all these things, which have happenedin my life, I ask myself, why? I am aware of the fact thatall of this did not happen because of me, since there isnothing in me that could impress God. Everything, however, is the gift of His amazing grace. He is the One whoopens doors, gives ideas, dreams and skills, which arenecessary to fulfill His plans.

Adam Szumorek

Luke and Marisa Bajenski

2000 was a year of numerous challenging transitionsfor Marisa and me. We both transitioned from single tomarried life, from student jobs to ministry positions, fromundergraduate schools to graduate studies, and lastlybut not less significantly, from dorm life to our first apartment. Virtually every facet of our life together is differentthan it was a year ago, with the important exception ofone ministry in Poland remains the sole focus of ourdesires, plans, and efforts.

While eagerly awaiting graduation and the move toPoland, we pray for strength and wisdom to use our shorttime here effectively. Looking back at the many miraculous ways in which God s grace has carried us throughthe challenges of the past year, we know we can trustthat at the beginning of every day in 2001, a fresh supplyof God s amazing grace will be there also, to give usstrength and wisdom necessary to bear witness to Hisglory. May this be true of all of us this year.

Luke and Marisa Bajenski

Ruben Karel

Thanks to God, GMM and friends in USA andCanada. I was able to finish my second semester atJohnson Bible College. The next semester is approaching very quickly. I hope, with God s help and His blessing,I will be able to accomplish what I have started. This pastyear was an extraordinary experience for me. Manythings in my life have changed, for example, friends,country and language, but I know that all this was givento me by God. The fact that I am at JBC is evidence ofthe Lord s blessings in my life.

I know that God wants to use me. When we are talking about the future I m certain that I want to serve Godin all ways that 1can.

Now in college I am receiving good Christian trainingand I want to further develop my skills and abilities to

become even a better witness for the Lord before others.I chose the Multimedia Program because it is the

closest program to my interests. My desire is to finish thisschool year as a strong Christian and be ready to work inHis field. As one person stated: The Gospel is one, butthe ways of sharing the Gospel are many. Iwant to focusmy ministry on art and use it as a tool to bring people toChrist. I am open and waiting for God to show me whereI can accomplish this.

This is how I see my future in the next few years. I mgrateful to everyone who has helped me study here. MayGod bless you. Ruben Karel

Lidka Lesnik on far right

My name is Lidka Lesnik and I come from Poland,from a small city called Ciechanow. I have been inCalgary, Canada for the last year and a half. I go toAlberta Bible College in Calgary. This year I am gettingmy Diploma in Christian Ministries. I want to preparemyself for Christian ministry. I learn a lot and I enjoylearning about God {even if sometimes I feel like I doknow Him so little). I can see how He guides me throughmy life every day. I believe that God has sent me here fora reason and He has a plan for me. I just hope that soonHe will reveal it to me. I believe that God is calling me towork with youth. This semester I am going to start working together with one Christian organization that workswith homeless young people. God especially touches myheart in this area.

I would like to work with youth in the church as well.I am not sure what God s plan will be for me just yet orwhere I will serve. I just know that He has given me somuch, therefore, with my whole heart I want to serve Him,follow Him and share Him with others.

I pray that people, especially the younger generation,not only here in Canada, but also in Poland and othercountries will open their hearts and will know our God asHe truly is, with all power and might, with the love and thehope that so many people are seeking.

Lidka Lesnik

Dear friends, these are just a few students, God schosen treasures, whom He entrusts for our prayer consideration. Let us pray that the Lord will help them in theirstudies and then continue to guide them as they enter thework into which He will guide them.

We will be happy to provide you with the addressesor any information about anyone of them that will provehelpful to you and, hopefully, to them. Should any of youfeel led by the Lord to contribute to their education, thenyou can send such assistance to GMM through theBenjamin Bajenski Memorial Fund.

Please designate your contribution for this purpose,using our Canadian address given in the box at the bottom of this page. Your assistance will be used to encourage these young people in their studies.

LIVING MEMORIALS

In memory of/Given by

John Zidkovich, Michael ZldkovlchSamuel &Anna Ficych

John Huk, Jr.Ruth Huk

Mr. & Mrs. J. ForsiukOlga ForsiukFred PosnikofFAlice HumenyTom ShawlinskiEdward Shawlinski

Paul F. NourseGary & Nancy Vessell

Nick & Nellie YacknowecJohn & Helen Martin

Katie WandlchRon & Judy NaydukOlga Emter

Elsie HollisterEdwin & Marion Zimmerman

Benjamin BajenskiIrene NevilleSherry & Lacy HallRuth HukJanice & Larry SnyderMary & Stephen LeshkewichElaine LarrisonMary SandersPaul & Janet KasemanSarah & Joseph RedlichGordon & Rebecca Souder

GMM Missionari^sTGeorge &Vera BaieoskiT^Steorge RepetskiGlobal Missionary Ministries 4141 Dixie Road, Box 20 Misslssauga, Ontario, Canada L4W 1V5

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"O Crier of Good News... shout with the voice of a trumpet blast... your God is coming." Isaiah

GOD USES THE FEW TO REACH THE MANY

When my wife, Autumn, asked, "How did it go?" I responded, "I am constantly amazed at thereach of that handful of people."

George and Vera Bajenski, George Repetski.From Toronto, Canada, to Poland, Belarus, Ukraine and Lithuania and beyond. God uses the

workers of Global Missionary Ministries to strengthen His work in many, many places.Our recent Board Meeting in Toronto illustrates this well. During the 1970's Autumn and I served

as missionaries with Toronto Christian Mission. Part of the mission returned to the US and becameTCM International; part remained in Toronto and became Global Missionary Ministries (GMM). WhenAutumn and I returned to the United States, I continued to serve on the Board of Directors for GMM.I've just come from our most recent Annual Meeting.

Dmitry ("Dima") and Lena Lazuta were there from Belarus, formeriy part of the USSR. DIma isSenior Minister of the Good News Church In Minsk. Kazik and Dorota Barczuk had come fromPoland, where Kazik is Director of the Christian Service Camp In Ostroda. Kazik, an elder in thePulawska Street Christian Fellowship Church in Warsaw, leads in the Messianic Jewish Outreach.

Colette Laden and Jay Bowyer from Calgary presented their work. They lead In a growing ministry in Ciechanow, Poland. Many Polish people want to learn English; Colette and Jay use the Bibleas the basis for their Instruction. Peter Bowyer, Jay's brother, had come from Halifax, Nova Scotia.He Is Forwarding Agent for the two "Polish Chicks," as they call themselves, though the formal nameis "Project Poland."

Our meeting was held in Toronto and several members of our Board were there from the Metroarea; others came from across the United States. David McFadden, Christian Counselor from theChicago area in Illinois, Harold Smith and Les White from Painesville, Ohio, area whereLes ministers with First Christian Church and Harold manages a Christian Bookstore. jHV

Norm Dudzik came from the Parkcrest Christian Church, Long Beach, California, jHKhand I was there from Cincinnati. Others were present from various points in the UnitedStates and Canada. Were I able to remember everyone present, I would be listing 25-30 names. I've said nothing about the reports of work done, broadcasts aired, print-ed materials provided, sermons and lessons taught; told of God's financial provision;or said anything of plans made for future help to local workers in Central and

Perhaps I've said enough, however, to enable you to grasp a bit of the influ- ^ence of this small unit of God's great work. These workers are worthy of yourprayers and your continued financial support. _

We are thankful for your partnership.

Assistant to the Academic DeanCincinnati (Ohio) Bible College

VOLUME 24, NO. 2 MARCH - APRIL 2001

MINISTRY IN MINSK:AN INTERVIEW WITH DIMA LAZUTA

Dima Lazuta leads Good News Church in prayer

Question: Dima, tell us where you live andwhat you do?Dima: I live in Minsk, in Belarus, and at the present time I'm the senior minister of the GoodNews Church there. Also, I teach in threeChristian institutions in Minsk. This is my mainwork right now.Question: What is your church doing thesedays?Dima: Recently we began a church service inthe Belarusian language. In Belarus all understand Russian, of course, but there's a percentage of our people who consider Russian to bethe language of imperialists. Such will nevercome to a Russian-language church service.We began a Belarusian-language sen/ice forthese people, which takes place at 3:00 pmevery Sunday. We believe that this will eventually become a Belarusian-language congregation.

We also support a ministry among collegestudents. We began it about 8 years ago. At onetime I was the general secretary of this organization. Right now our church is the main drivingforce for this outreach ministry. We conductspecial conferences for students once or twicea year. Once a month we rent a hall to conducta special outreach to them. For example, justtwo weeks ago we had such a meeting. About300 came and we spoke to them about Christ.

Besides this, we recently launched twoissues of our magazine on a website, on the

Internet. We are hoping to print one issue onpaper-made up of the first two-sometime in thenear future. This is what we're praying for.Question: In September you began having twoSunday sen/ices, the second being a repeat ofthe first. Why did you do this?DIma: Our problem is that our church building isvery small, not enough room for all to be present at the same time. Our seating capacity isonly 150. For us to grow we had to make thedecision to conduct two services-the first at10:00 AM, the second at 12:30 PM. Actually,this is something completely new for ourchurches. As far as I know, we're the first one todo this. And we're happy about this decision.Our first service is filled to capacity, while about50 to 60 are coming to the second one. As aresult of this, we've seen immediate growth inour church20 to 25 percent.

We also have an outreach to teenagers andchildren. We began this work because conditions for social life in our country are rather sad.It's quite common for teenagers to get into thedrug scene. Because of this we started a dramagroup made up of around 30 teenagers. DuringChristmas they presented a play and 1,500young people attended the drama presentation.Most of them came from non-believing families.We handed out gifts and chocolates. Soon wewill begin groups for the study of German andEnglish, and a sports interest group. We're taking steps to develop a special ministry for children and teenagers. We understand this is avery important outreach.Question: In relation to your student outreachprogram, in what way does your program herediffer from a typical church service?Dima: Well, first, this isn't a traditional type ofservice. There's a lot of music, that is, a lot ofcontemporary music. We normally invite anorchestra or band to come and participate.Music during our regular services is quite a bitmore conservative. In our student outreach wesometimes invite several groups to participate.We have a musical concert for 45 minutes to anhour, but in between songs we have testimoniesand the reading of Scripture. At the end there'sa sermon for about 15 to 20 minutes. It's amazing, but these concerts are really popular.Question: i would think you'd have a lot of

believers at these concerts. What about non-beiievers?Dime: I think more than a half Is made up ofnon-believers. That's because we encouragebelievers to bring their non-beiieving friends. Iremember a couple of months ago one fellowbrought six of his friends, anothertwo.Question: What's their reaction like?Dime: Quite positive! Many, after this, beginattending our small group meetings and thenlater are baptized. Of course, we don't forcethem to repent. There are various points of viewon how to call people to faith in God and JesusChrist. Some think that you should only havethem raise their hands to indicate their desire tofollow Christ, or go up front, but we stress thatthey should be baptized, because that's the finalmoment that testifies of a person's change ofheart. Again, we don't force people to come tothis point in their lives. It has to be their personal decision.Question: Coming back to your magazine,which I believe is called "Christian Culture,"what are your goals for it?Dlma: This really is the first magazine inBelarus that attempts to analyze all that's happening in our social and cultural life. This isactually a magazine that seeks to look at theseissues from a conservative evangelical point ofview. One of our goals is to introduce our intelligentsia to our evangelical point of view on questions of salvation, sin, social and civilian issuesof our society, political structures-although wewon't go too far in this direction-that is, we wantto bring out Biblical principles that can beapplied to political life, too. We'll speak aboutthem.

Another thing we want to do is to nullify prejudices about Evangelical Christians. For 70years such strong propaganda was directedagainst us. The authorities had it as their goal todestroy our churches. That's because, if the Orthodox Church was more loyal to the communist regime, then Evangelical churches alwaysheld to specific Christian principles. Our brothers and sisters suffered. The authorities tried todisband our churches but couldn't crush us.That pressure was lifted after the fall of communism.

However, just in the past few years we've

Lena Lazuta teaching at Good News Cfiurch

again noticed a change in attitude towards us.Our government that tends to be atheistic hasjoined forces with the Orthodox Church andagain launched a new wave of propagandaagainst us. Every day in the mass media weread and hear slanderous comments about us,that we are a cult, that we sacrifice humans andso on. "Be careful! Don't allow your children toget mixed up with these people," they say. Wehave to react to this constantly; we have todevelop our own mass media and spread information about ourselves. This is what we're aiming to do.Question: What other problems do you face inyour spiritual ministry?Dlma: First of all, let's deal with not spiritual, butpractical problems. We're limited in space. Allchurches are filled to capacity and it's very difficult to rent space. According to the law, we canrent space, but as soon as we receive permission to rent some space, the governmentphones the proprietor of the rental facility andtells him not to allow us to rent space from him.The government pulls the handles to force proprietors or scare them into not renting space forour purposes. We've presented a request toreceive land for building a church and ask youto pray with us that they would give us land tobuild and expand.

We also face spiritual problems. For example, the Evangelical church in Belarus is relatively young. The oldest Evangelical church wasbegun about 150 years ago. Our churches havenot had the lengthy experience that churcheshave had in Canada and the USA. We have dif-

ficulty with the problem of commitment on thepart of newly converted people. About 15 percent of new converts leave us for one reason oranother. We need to begin a serious program ofdiscipleship and we're taking steps to do that.Question: What plans do you have for thefuture?Dima: Our main problem-one which, if notresolved, will not allow us to grow-is to buildlarger facilities. We submitted a request toobtain new land for a building. Our hope anddream is to build facilities that will seat 800 to a1000 people, a Sunday School area, perhaps acenter where we could conduct conferences.We'd like to setup a kitchen and dining areawhere we could feed needy people. This willdepend on our government's reaction to ourrequest. I would ask you to pray with us aboutthis.

"CHRtSTIAN CULTURE" MAGAZINE

Irina Vasilevskaya, editor of"Christian Culture" Magazine

In his interview Dima Lazuta mentions thatGood News Church has launched the publication of "Christian Culture" magazine. IrinaVasilevskya has been appointed as the magazine's editor. She is presently studying toreceive her doctorate in the area of philosophy.

Recently she wrote the following:"One of the goals for our magazine is to

undo the false stereotypes and prejudicesagainst Protestantism in our society, to proclaimtrue Christian values and bring people to God,first of all, the intelligentsia."

GMM will continue to support Irina in thisvery important work and we would ask you toremember her in your prayers.

LIVING MEMORIALS

In memory of/Given by

Mr. & Mrs. J. Forsiuk

Olga ForsiukFred Posnikoff

Alice HumenyTom Shawlinski

Edward Shawlinski

A. Nettie Forsiuk

Benjamin BajenskiBrighton Chrisitian Church, Brighton. MlEva Nourse

Patricia ingLarry & Janice SnyderLacy & Sherry Haii, ilIrene Neviiie

George & Eiieen ChapmanEiizabeth Mon-an

Charies and Joan Jean Snocker

Paul Nourse

Eva Nourse

Gary & Nancy Vessel!

Kathy WilsonGeorge & Eiieen Chapman

Alice HumenyFred G. Posnikoff

Pauline Posnikoff

Mike Borlsenko

Mary Borisenko

GMM Missionaries: George & Vera Bajenski, George RepetskiGlobal Missionary Ministries

4141 Dixie Road, Box 20 Misslssauga, Ontario, Canada L4W 1V5Tel. (905) 564-3578 Fax. (905) 564-6732

Box 104 Geneva, Ohio 44041 Address Correction RequestedPublished 6 times a year Printed in Canada

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"O Crier of Good News... shout with the voice of a trumpet blast... your God is coming."Isaiah

POINTING THE JEWISH NATION

TO GOD'S MESSIAH

That God loves theJewish people and ^desires to see them .vsaved goes without question. Out of Ur Hecalled Abram, "I willmake you a great fS^nation" (Gen. 12:1-3). Itis evident that our LordJesus sprang out ofJudah, one of thetwelve tribes of Israel (Heb. 7:14). Jesus,Himself a Jew, came to save His peoplefrom their sins (Matt. 1:21).

The great apostle Paul was also a Jew(Acts 21:39). The former persecutor of theChurch (made up, at first, entirely of Jews)had a burning passion to see his countrymen saved. "Brethren, my heart's desireand prayer to God for Israel is that they maybe saved" (Rom. 10:1).

Though he was commissioned to be theapostle to the Gentiles, Paul could neverforget the Jewish people. He declared thatthe Gospel of Christ would be preached tothe Jew first (Rom. 1:16). He knew full wellthat God was not through with the Jew;Indeed, that some day all Israel would besaved (Rom. 11:1-36) when they turned toChrist and the veil would be lifted (2 Cor.3:7-18).

It thrills my heart to know that BrotherKazik Barczuk of Warsaw, Poland, has thissame love for the Jewish people of his

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homeland.Kazik'sgrandmother was anorthodox Jew, the first

in his family to come to^ , faith in Jesus as

i Messiah.^ Today, Brother Bar-

czuk is working amongthe Jewish people inWarsaw. Before WorldWar II there were 4.5

million Jews in Poland. Today there areonly 20,000, most of whom live in Warsaw.Kazik's ministry of love and outreach hasnow spread to other East European countries, once the killing fields of Adolf Hitler.

This outstanding ministry includes thefollowing:

1) Weekly Shabbat meetings forWarsaw Jews. Up to 80 people attend andsome of them have come to believe thatYeshua (Jesus) is their true Messiah andhave obeyed in Christian baptism!

2) Humanitarian services to needyJewish people who are called "Children ofthe Holocaust." The survivors are elderlypeople now. Soup kitchens are set up forthem not only in Poland, but also inUkraine, Belarus and Russia.

3) Camps (a different and more blessedkind than the horrible concentration campsI have visited in my four trips to Poland!) areset up for Jewish children and adults fromRussia, Poland, Ukraine and Belarus.

MAY-JUNE 2001

The movie, "Schindler's List" ends withOskar Schindler crying, "I could have donemore!"

All of us could. And should! I urge youto join me in supporting this amazing ministry of Christian compassion to a peoplewhom God loves with an everlasting love.

Victor KnowlesFounder/Director

Peace on Earth Ministries

Kazik Barczuk, Victor Knowles, George BajenskiPOEM office, Jopiin, MO

Over the last twenty years KazikBarczuk has been closely affiliated with thework of Global Missionary Ministries. Hehas served on the pastoral staff ofChristian Fellowship Church in Warsaw. Healso pastored the church in Katowice. Hepresently is the director of our Youth Campin Ostroda. Kazik still serves on the elders'board of Christian Fellowship Church.Several years ago we invited Kazik to visitchurches and Messianic congregations inthe USA. This was the beginning of Kazik'sMinistry in Poland. Earlier this year he wasour guest during GMM's Annual Board ofDirectors' meeting, after which we visitedagain a few churches and Messianic congregations in Canada and in the UnitedStates, including Jopiin, MO. Here we metwith brother Victor Knowles.

The following is Kazik's testimony,which he shared while he was with us.

GMM AND MINISTRY

TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE

About five years ago I started an outreach ministry to the Jewish people (ofwhich I am a part) that live in Poland,Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. Throughoutthis period that I have been working withJewish people, we have been trying to helppoor Jewish families of these countries,both in spiritual and material ways, asopportunity lends itself to us.

God has blessed our humble effort in avery real way. Many precious souls accepted Yeshua, Jesus, as their Saviour.Messianic congregations have been established. We helped numerous poor andelderly Jewish people in their daily strugglefor survival. We were happy to be able toassist some of them in their process ofimmigration to Israel.

But during the summer of 1999 weexperienced something unusual; something beautiful took place. It can be considered a miracle. Actually for me it was confirmation that God is blessing this ministryto which He has called me and in which I'mengaged today.

Kazik Barczuk at a church in the USA,which conducts a Messianic outreach

My coworker and I were pleasantly surprised by one Polish Catholic individualwhose family during the wartime savedmany Jews from the Holocaust. Heapproached us with a proposal, stating: "I

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Adam Panczak and Kazikon grounds of donated property

know what you are doing on behalf ofJewish people who live in Poland, Ukraine,Belarus and Russia. I like what you'redoing! I would like to donate a piece of landlocated in northeastern Poland for use inyour ministry. The land is located in themost attractive region of many scenic lakesin Poland. This donated property includes awilderness-type piece of iand that juts outas a peninsula, which is surrounded bythree beautiful lakes. In addition to this,about 10 kilometers from that spot in anear-by city, Gizycko, there is a fine residential brick home that was built in the late30's."

All of this was presented without anycost to us to our Jewish outreach ministry.Would not you agree that this is a real miracle?

All of this that has happened is trulyamazing, but what really brings wonder tomy mind and strengthens my faith in theSovereign God is the fact that 55 years agothe Fuhrer Adolf Hitler and his generals hadtheir main military World War II headquarters in this very area. Just think of it, Hitlerand his generals spent over 800 daysdirecting the war effort on the eastern frontfrom this area. Undoubtedly some terriblepolicies against Jews were formulated andenacted from this place.

But today, right at this same location,children from poor Jewish families are find

ing rest here and are learning about God.Would Hitler have ever foreseen such athing? Never! God takes care of his people!

I remember when we received this gift,I felt like one learned rabbi who wassearching in his private library for something. As he was looking through all hisbooks he just couldn't find what he waslooking for. Then, at that moment, a groupof his students entered the library.

Seeing that the rabbi was searching forsomething so intensely, they quietly asked,"Rabbi, maybe we can help you find whatyou're looking for?"

The rabbi smiled and answered them,"My dear ones, I know the answer. But I amsearching for the appropriate question."

So it is with us. We now have a beautiful property, about 400 acres, with threelarge barns on it, a former blacksmith'sshop, and the foundations of torn-downbuildings on which new buildings can beraised. The property is very close to theRussian, Belarusian and Lithuanian borders. Oh God, just let us know what yourplans are; what is your will for this place?How can we use it to fulfill your purposes?

We are certain of one thing. This placewas given to us by God so that we couldminister to Jewish people who are now indiaspora, who still live in Central andEastern Europe. This is a people group thatis still searching for spiritual and national

Messianic rabbi, Eliezar Urbach, duringa Shabbat service at Camp Ostroda, Poland

m.

Adult camp for Polish seniors and Jewish personsfrom St. Petersburg, Russia

Identity and for a land where they can live inpeace and safety. They are searching fortrue meaning in life, but they will not find itwithout Yeshua, their true Messiah. We arehere to help them.

We share this with you, friends, so thatyou wiil remember and not forget us,Jewish people, living in Central andEastern Europe. God still has His plans forour nation. He has not forgotten us. He stillmeans what He said: "I will bless those whobless you" (Genesis 12:3). Kazik Barczuk

One of the first Shabbat meetings held at theBarczuk's apartment with 92 year old lady

Baptism of newiy converted JewsOstroda, Poland

LIVING MEMORIALS

'Befiofif, I teCCyou a mystery: We sftaUnotadsleep, But wesfmCCaUSe

cfianged, in a moment, in tfie twin-l^in ofaneye, at tfie Cast trumpetJor tfie trumpet unlCsound, and tfiedeadwiUBe raised incorruptiSfe, and

wesfiaCCBe cHan^ed.1 Cor. 15:51-52

In memory of Hiram Keith MechlingGiven by Bill & Carol Holland

GMM Missionaries: George &Vera Bajenski, George RepetskiGlobal Missionary Ministries

4141 Dixie Road, Box 20 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L4W 1V5Tel. (905) 564-3578 Fax. (905) 564-6732

Fonwarding USA address: Box 104 Geneva, Ohio 44041 Address Correction RequestedPublished 6 times a year Printed in Canada

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CR(R"O Crier of Good News... shout with the voice of a trumpet blast... your God is coming." Isaiah

"IT IS TIME TO PUT TALK OF EAST AND WEST BEHIND US!"

'Today, I have come to the center of Europeto speak of the future of Europe. Some still callthis "the East" - but Warsaw is closer to Irelandthan it is to the Urals. And it is time to put talk ofEast and West behind us."

Such were the words spoken by PresidentGeorge Bush, June 15 in Warsaw, Poland. Littleby little the old line of demarcation betweenEast and West is being obliterated in Europe.President Bush's speech testifies to this reality.More and more we can talk of Central Europeas opposed to Eastern and Western Europe ofthe past.

We live in fascinating days, as we see oldalliances crumble and news ones appear. Thisis producing new political, social and economicrealities. True, not all have come to endorse thisas desirable, as some old political and socialideas die hard. Yet progress towards a moreunited Central Europe continues.

What does this mean for us who wish to seeGod's Kingdom continue to grow in Europe?This has given our fellow believers greater freedom to evangelize their own people groups.More people have come to hear and respond tothe Gospel message. We thank God that Heopened a new window of opportunity for thespread of Christ's message. We have greateraccess to do cooperative work with our fellowbrothers and sisters in Christ and must seizethe day to do as much as possible, not knowingwhat tomorrow might bring.

With political freedom there is greater opportunity for economic freedom, but this hasproven most challenging, as peoples of the former communist states struggle to adjust to newrealities. Most of our fellow Christians do findways to feed and clothe their own families, butlittle remains to support church building projectsor other Christian programs. Many congregations have new church buildings or are still

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building or expanding their present facilities. Wehear those ever present requests for financialassistance to build or help finance differentevangelistic efforts. Where we can, GMM doeshelp, but we cannot help in everything. We needthe Lord's wisdom to assist where He wouldlead us.

But the fact that we can work in cooperativeeffort with our fellow believers, have them visitCanada and the United States and tell us abouttheir lives and ministry is cause for celebration.Just recently Brother Alexander Firisiuk,President of the churches union in Belarus, visited us in Canada and stated that, as far as heis concerned, it is a miracle that he can come toCanada and the USA and share about theblessings and challenges of Christian work inhis country. The old divisions between East andWest are beginning to disappear as we dealwith a more unified Central Europe. We believeGod has His plans for Europe and the world andHe Is working them out. The time will comewhen Jesus will return and the events of ourworld today are rushing to that end. In themeantime, we will continue to work with our fellow believers to proclaim the Gospel In their partof the world.

We agree with President Bush when he stated in his speech that "through trenches andshell-fire, through death camps and bombed-out cities, through gulags and food lines menand women have dreamed of what my fathercalled a Europe 'whole and free'. This freeEurope is no longer a dream. It is the Europethat is rising around us. It Is the work that youand I are called on to complete."

And we, as Christians, will make Europecomplete by sharing the Gospel among thenations. To this end we labor together with you,our fellow partners in our Lord's causes inEurope and around the world.

JULY - AUGUST 2001

GMM's Coworkers in Ukraine

George Repetski, Nina and Vasily ShakhvetaKovel, Ukraine

Vasily and Nina Shakhveta live and ministerin the the city of Kovel, Ukraine. They havebeen GMM's cov^rorkers for several years. Wewould like to have you hear Bro. Vasily's story.Recently George Repetski visited and interviewed him.

George: Brother Shakveta, tell us how youspent your childhood and teenage years here inKovel.Vasily: I was born into a believing family. I havea sister who is 4 years older than me. We weretaught to attend church since childhood years. Iattended Sunday School along with other children in our church. I heard Bible stories as achild and was 11 years old when I fully realizedmy need for Christ. At that time I gave myselffully to Him.George: You were arrested in your teenageyears. What caused that to happen?Vasily: In 1939 the Soviet Union took over ourarea of Ukraine. We, children of that time, werein Middle School. When I was 15 years old KGBmen came and arrested me not far from myschool. We had quite a few Christian books inour church and I started handing out such literature to my schoolmates. They read this literature, but I was unaware of the fact that this kindof activity was disallowed by the new authorities. This became the reason for my arrest.George: How did you spend your time inprison? What did you do there?Vasily: I was kept In Kovel for 15 days. Theytold me that in view of the fact that I propagan

dized others using bourgeoisie literature and, bythis, turned them away from communism, Iwould be punished. They said, "We'll send youto such a place that you will never return here."I was given a 10-year sentence of hard labour.

They sent me off with other adults and wetraveled by train all the way to the PacificOcean, to Vladivostok. Then for 7 days andnights we sailed on a ship headed for Magema-dan. This was the last trip before winter set in.Our boat wasn't a passenger, but a cargo ship.There were no regular rooms or cots for sleeping. They just threw us in the cargo area and wehad to find a place to rest. Being that I am nottall, I was able to find a small ledge near the topof the cargo area. There was enough room forme to sit there and hold my personal belongs. Iwas fortunate that 1 did not have to stay lowertowards the bottom that was fuli of seawater.Many people perished right there at the bottomand they would simply dump their bodies overboard into the sea. We traveled through a hugestorm and were on the sea for 7 days andnights. Our ship became disabled and anothership came to our rescue. It tugged our ship Intoport.

It was already the beginning of Septemberand winter had fully set in. The temperature wasreaching -40 degrees C. When they started taking us off the ship, many couldn't walk off ontheir own strength. I don't know what happenedto those that couldn't get off because we had tostill walk another 7 kilometers to get to thecamp. They placed us into barracks, but therewere so many of us in those barracks that wecould only stand. Ifwe were to sit down, then allof us had to do that at the same time. BecauseI was just a teenager and quite small, thosearound me sat down and I had no room to sit, soI would end up standing.

I was put into a brigade that worked thenorthern mines in Kolyma where some prisoners arrested from 1933 to 1937 were still working. Most of those had already died and a smallgroup of them had survived and remained tothis time. There we worked in the mines for 12-hour shifts. Many died on the job. There weremany Christians there. During free time weweren't allowed to conduct any kind of servicesor have fellowship, but during break time, whenwe had shift changes, we had opportunities tohave times of fellowship. I met people therefrom many parts of the Soviet Union. They were

all older than me and many of them havealready died. One brother from Belarus and Ioccupied the same bed. He would come off hisshift and go to rest on my bed and I'd go towork. When I'd return, we would againexchange places.

After being let out, we Christians were givenan opportunity to go to Berebidzhan in theJewish Autonomous Region. A year after myrelease my sister and father were set free. Weall met in Berebidzhan. The authorities allowedmother to travel to Siberia to live with herdaughter. Once my parents and sister wereunited, I was told that I could go there and livewith the rest of the family. However, for a timethey wouldn't allow us to return to Ukraine.George: When were you able to leave Siberiaand come here to your hometown of Kovel?Vasily: My parents lived in Berebidzhan until1962. At that time my father became a pensioner and was freed from regular daily work. So myparents decided to travel back to Ukraine. Theytraveled there during the summer time and sawthat our church was already registered andthere were many believers in Kovel. Everythingwas so beautiful there. They told me that theywould like to return to Ukraine permanently."We'll gather a bit of money and let's go there.We'll buy some kind of house to live in." So weagreed that it would be better to travel backhome and we could die there. It would be betterto be buried there instead of in Siberia.

So my folks traveled to Kovel and they corresponded with me by mail and kept telling methat it's great here. And it was better, indeed.Even the authorities didn't persecute believersas much as they did in Berebidzhan. So at theend of 1966 and beginning of 1967 my sisterand I traveled back to Kovel. Praise the Lord forthis.George: How did you start your mission andwhat are your present ministries?Vasily: After being freed I asked God to allowme to preach God's Word. Several churches inSiberia prayed with me about this. God heardthis prayer. When we returned to Kovel, I started to attend the services at our local church,and also began to work in the factory. When pe-restroika came during the time of Gorbachev,the opportunity came to register a mission. Thepastor of that time (he's with the Lord now) andI established this mission together. That was 11years ago. We registered it and it was wonder-

Bro. Vasily distributing literature in a schoolful. There was ample opportunity to travel andhand out New Testaments in our region andpreach the Good News.

At first we visited all the military bases in thearea. We showed the "Jesus" Film and otherChristian films and preached. We handed outNew Testaments to all the soldiers that servedhere. Unfortunately, my fellow brother returnedfrom one of our trips and within two days, duringa church service on Sunday, he suddenly died.I then continued to work with the deacons of thechurch and other Christians. I have an old carcalled "Moskvich" which I use to transportChristians and literature to visit military basesand schools in the area. I had a burning desireto share the Gospel with the people in theseplaces and hand out New Testaments to them.

And when we finally were able to supplyNew Testaments to all the people in the militarybases and schools, then my Christian work tookon a different character. I began to preach theGospel over radio. It was difficult at first. Ourmayor agreed to give me the opportunity tohave 12 minutes of time over local radio. I amthankful to the Lord for this. My first radio program was broadcast on the 4'^ ^ of June, 1993. Icame to an agreement with the city authoritiesthat I could have these 12 minutes and theywould give news of things happening in our cityand surrounding area right after my sermon.The program is now broadcast every Fridayafter 6:00 pm. Brother George Repetski happened to visit me just before we had our firstprogram broadcast, and together we went to theradio studio and talked with the director. Also,we talked with the mayor. They agreed to giveme this time. In other words, we received the

green light to preacii God's Word.Thanks to the efforts of Brothers RepetskI

and Bajenski, we could now lay the foundationsfor preaching the Gospel over local radio. I'vebeen doing this until today. In fact, on the 4^ ofJune of this year of 2001 (within two days), it willhave been 8 years since we began this program.George: Brother Vasily, we, of course, aregrateful to God and are happy that you continueto have this opportunity. We continue to pray foryou and assist you financially in your labour forthe Lord. What do those people who listen toyou and receive Bibles fronfi you tell you?Vasily: My listeners' reaction is always verypositive. After every program people write me orphone me and give further questions and comments. They ask me to meet with them. I meetwith my listeners In the city every Sunday. Wemeet at one designated place and we have further discussions with the listeners there. I tellthem right from the beginning that the Biblegives answers to all of your questions.

They willingly come to discuss many thingsabout the issues of life from a Biblical perspective. Many educated people who used to workwith me have come and are now members ofour church. Many people have come to personal faith in Christ as a result of the program andour discussions with them.George: You have contact with believers ofother traditions, such as the Orthodox. What doyou tell them?Vasily: Believers of the Orthodox faith tend notto know the Bible very well. I try to answer theirquestions from the Bible. I tell them that theyshould look into God's Word and stand firm intheir faith In God on the basis of God's Word.The most important thing, I tell them, is not todepend on the fact that we are of some particular denominational faith, rather let's look andexamine the 'laith of the Gospel," as the apostle Paul states in one place. The church doesnot save, Jesus saves and we all must come toHim, believe in Him and live according to HisWord. Many people find this acceptable and

react in a positive way.Also, right now the directors of educational

institutions here continue to ask me to comeand talk to their students and teachers aboutGod and the Bible. The Orthodox priests thatvisit these places don't do this. The teachers ofhigh schools and other educational institutionsin the area want to hear about the Bible, to findout more about the Bible's content and teachings. They desire to hear the pure Word of God.I do this type of work throughout the school yearand visit one school after another. I'm thankfulto the Lord for the opportunity that He has givenme to be back in my hometown and minister topeople, giving them the Word of God. God'sways are higher than man's.

LIVING MEMORIALS

In memory of/Given by

Katie WandlchOlga Emter

Albert MansHarry & Elena Mans

Benjamin BajenskiJanice & Larry SnyderElsie Tabak

Hiram Keith IVIechlingBill & Carol Holland

Fred G. Posnikoff & Alice HumenyPosnikoff Family

GMM Missionaries: George & Vera Bajenski, George RepetskiGlobal Missionary Ministries

4141 Dixie Road, Box 20 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L4W1V5Tel. (905) 564-3578 Fax. (905) 564-6732

Forwarding USA address: Box 104 Geneva, Ohio 44041 Address Correction RequestedPublished 6 times a year Printed in Canada

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cfztcfik. A"O Crier of Good News... shout with the voice of a trumpet blast... your God is coming."

^ Isaiah

"...the day of small things..."

"Who despises the day of small things?... Notby might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says

the Lord" (Zech. 4:10 and 6).This short Bible verse from Zechariah's

prophecy was brought to our attention by one ofthe speakers at the recent 80^^ AnniversaryCelebration of the Christian Church's ministry inPoland.

Konstantin and Ksenla Jaroshevich

From a humble village dwelling in Starawiesin Eastern Poland, where missionary KonstantinJaroshevich was born, the Good News of JesusChrist spread all across parts of Central andEastern Europe. It all started in 1921 when agraduate of Johnson Bible College, BrotherKonstantin, began this ministry in his nativePoland.

In August of this year the Polish churches,accompanied by a choir and orchestra fromneighbouring Belarus, remembered the smallbeginnings of this great work during specialweekend services of praise and celebration.

We thank God that His church was established in Poland, and that He led it through difficult periods of war and intense political strug

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gles. We thank the Lord that all of this wasaccomplished not by man's wisdom and not byhis might, nor even by the power of money, butby the Spirit of the living Lord. The foundationwas laid; it is Jesus Christ. Now, as we continueplanting and watering the seed, God gives thegrowth (1 Cor. 3).

We thank God that Global MissionaryMinistries plays a vital part in this ministry inCentral Europe.

It was very meaningful and encouraging forlocal churches that three North AmericanChristian mission organizations, PCM (PolishChristian Mission), TCM (Training Christians forthe Ministry) and GMM (Global MissionaryMinistries), were present on this special occasion.

The services, workshops and historical setting of these meetings helped Polish brethren toagree on a unified challenge and vision, whichthe Lord set before them. We praise the Lordthat the Spirit of unity and vision to reach thelost for Christ prevailed. For all of this - to Godbe the glory!

80'^ Anniversary Christian Church Celebration

SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2001

CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP CHURCHWARSAW, POLAND

Urszula and Andrew BajenskiWarsaw has been the capital city of

Poland since 1596. The Polish king of thattime, Sigimund III Waza, moved the nationalcapital from Krakow to Warsaw. Thus therewas a 500-year span of a long and heroic history. It remembers the days of Prussian rule.It remembers liberation by Napoleon's army.It remembers rule by the Russian tsar and thedevastating days of Nazi occupation, afterwhich there were 36 years of "freedom." However, the truth is that during this period matters were actually determined by Moscow. Asa reminder of this, today there stands in thecenter of Warsaw the Russian-built "Palace ofCulture," which local people used to refer toas "Saint Joseph's (Stalin's) Cathedral."Throughout its long history Warsaw enjoyedseveral periods of tolerance and prosperity. Itwas during this time that its citizens couldrebuild their personal lives and their city. Thecity's greatest natural resource has alwaysbeen its people. There was even a period oftime when over 400,000 inhabitants ofWarsaw were Jewish people with their synagogues numbering in the hundreds.

Today Warsaw continues to grow and tobe an important population center in the heartof Europe. Church life again is very visiblewith a majority of the population adhering tothe Roman Catholic faith. Also, there aremany different protestant and evangelicalchurches throughout the city. One of these isan independent Christian Church officiallyknown as "Christian Fellowship." This church,

which meets in a regular apartment building,is located on a major street called Pulawska.For this reason it is also often referred to as"The Pulawska Street Church." This church iswell organized and active, maintaining a firmBible-teaching program with strong emphasison evangelism and mission outreach.

At present Christian Fellowship conductsthree Sunday services. Throughout the weekit offers many activities for children, youth,students, adults and various interest groups.Worship is conducted in a Spirit-led manner.Another effective way of reaching out intoWarsaw's community is through an Englishlanguage school, which conducts its classeson the church's premises. One program is foradvanced conversational English in whichScripture is used as its textbook. Several students have come to Christ as a result of thisprogram.

The Christian Fellowship Church recentlyinitiated a Gospel Internet ministry. It alsoreaches out to disabled, homeless and streetpeople. The church has been activelyinvolved in programs of large humanitarianaid within the country. This congregation alsobegan a unique form of ministry on its premises, namely, a specific outreach to Jewishpeople. A group of believing Jews meetsevery Friday evening for their Shabbat service. This friendship and congenial neighbourly relation between the church and ourJewish friends is proving to be a blessing forJews and us, Gentiles, alike.

This year marks the 20''^ year of ministry

Jonathan Gough

Zbigniew Tarkowski

for Pastor Andrew Bajenski with the WarsawChurch. He recently commented:

"Twenty years ago our Warsaw Churchwas a small congregation, less than 100members. It consisted mostly of older individuals, who had been in the faith for a long time.In many cases they were people who camefrom different parts of Poland and settled inWarsaw after World War II.

Now our membership is primarily made upof locally born people. Many of them hold auniversity education. They are youth, youngfamilies, career-minded business people andwhite-collar workers. At first it was difficult forus to bypass the "magic number" of 200members, but within a relatively short periodof time we doubled, then even tripled inchurch attendance. Each year we have several baptisms. Last May, for example, we conducted a baptismal service with 40 peoplebeing baptized

Throughout the 80's and 90's we conducted many evangelistic campaigns in our cityand surrounding communities. As a result,four new congregations were started. Now weare facing the situation that our presentchurch facility lacks room for further growthand expansion. God is placing a challengebefore us. We need to start another sistercongregation in the northern part of our city.This project will demand much work on ourpart and help from other friendly and mission-minded organizations such as Global Missionary Ministries. We trust God will bless ourefforts. In all of our mission and local endeavours we strive to 'Be faithful to God and be

people-friendly.' This is our motto, and possibly this is one reason why we are growing.We believe in what we say and we put it intopractice."

To assist in the ministry of ChristianFellowship Church in Warsaw Pastor AndrewBajenski has several co-workers and someclose associates, the first of whom is definitely his wife, Urszula. She leads and coordinates the church's counseling ministry. Thenthere is Pastor Jonathan Gough and hisPolish wife, Iwona. Jonathan was born inEngland, and with Iwona's help learned tospeak in Polish. He is in charge of ChristianFellowship Church's teaching ministry. PastorZbigniew Tarkowski and his wife, Malgorzata,are in charge of membership and home Biblestudy groups' ministry. Pastor KrzysztofZareba and his wife, Mariola, give direction tothe church's evangelistic and mission outreach programs.

I recently spoke with all of these leadersand asked them what is the most pressingprayer request for Christian FellowshipChurch for the upcoming fall season? Theyunanimously answered:

"Please remember us this fall as inOctober we start a new congregation in thenorthern part of Warsaw. We will need God'sstrength, guidance and wisdom in this newventure of faith. It will also be a challengingendeavour from a financial point of view."May we be faithful in showing them ourencouragement and support.

FINDING GOD AT CAMP IN BELARUS

GMM continues to sponsor and supportvarious camp outreach ministries. One ofthem is located close to the city of Kobryn inBelarus. It is called "Children's Health Center- Pearl" and conducts a youth summer campministry. Children come from all parts ofBelarus. This center is not only a regularcamp, but also maintains a medical clinic.The latter analyzes the children's generalhealth and gives needed advice. It also has adental facility where the children are givendental care. The director of this camp is ourlong-time friend, Vladimir Vandich.

We asked Brother Vladimir to share sometestimonies of children that have been at thecamp and, as a result, have become believers. Here is one such testimony of a younglady who was not only a camper, but this yearserved as a counselor at the camp. Shewrites:

"My name is Irena and I started attendingSunday School when I was ten years old.When I was 14,1 was given an opportunity toattend camp. It was here that I repented. Thisis how it happened. On one occasion late inthe evening, after a quiet conversation on thetheme of God's love, I sensed an inexplicabledesire to repent. The impetus for this was allthat I saw around me: the attitude towards meby the counselors, the simple sincere songsand the games using Biblical themes andother things.

That evening, as I was getting ready forbed, a strong desire welled up inside me. Iquickly ran to my counselor and said: "I wantto repent." She immediately left what she asdoing and took me to a quiet place whereboth of us prayed. Next day I felt myselfrenewed and happy. Unfortunately, however,when I returned home I found myself in acompletely different environment. When I told

my parents about what had happened to meat camp, they refused to support me in mydecision and through their cold indifferencethey extinguished the new spiritual flamewithin me.

After some time they did not allow me toattend church services. My life became rathersad, full of evil and disappointments. However, by God's plan I eventually started attending church again. The Lord helped megain victory in my difficulties and uncertainties. I eventually decided to dedicate my lifefully to Jesus Christ and was baptized. Aftermy baptism I started to grow spiritually andbecome stronger in my faith. At every step Isensed God's blessings. And so now, fouryears later, I'm here at this camp as a counselor myself. When the girls in my grouprepent, it reminds me of that joyous and greattime of repentance that I experienced.

I thank God for this camp, for the fact thathere children find new life and for the fact thatit was here that my life was changed. I foundGod's will for my life here."

LIVING MEMORIALS

In memory of/Given by

Benjamin BajenskiJanice & Lanry Snyder

Elsie HollisterEdwin & Marion Zimmerman

Hiram K. MechlingCarol & Bill Holland

GMM Missionaries: George & Vera Bajenski, George RepetskiGlobal Missionary Ministries

4141 Dixie Road, Box 20 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L4W 5C9Tel. (905) 564-3578 Fax. (905) 564-6732

Forwarding USA address: Box 104 Geneva, Ohio 44041 Address Correction RequestedPublished 6 times a year Printed in Canada

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CB(lt .i"O Crier of Good News... shout with the voice of a trumpet blast... your God is coming."

Isaiah

"For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, thatthough He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, sothat you through His poverty might become rich." 2 Cor. 8:9

Ponder the reality of it! Jesus enjoyed the richnessof heaven, yet He came toplanet earth to place Himself into poverty. "Foxeshave holes and birds of theair have nests, but the Sonof Man has

head." He did it for you and me"so that through His poverty we

alienation from God, for we allhad sinned and fallen short ofGod's intended glory. We willful- HEHHly turned our back on the waythat God wanted us to go andchose our own path of disobedi-ence. As a result, evil began todominate in our dealings withothers. Disagreements, hostili-ties and malicious acts definehuman history, both at the level of our personallives and throughout the world as nation risesup against nation. God is not to be blamed fortoday's unhappiness and sorrow throughout theworld! It is all man's doing.

Did God have to choose to redeemhumankind from its pitiful plight of self-destruc-tion? Did He have to come to us, take on our

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form, become one like us, and yet apart from usin terms of sin and evil? No, but He did it out oflove for us. "For you know the grace of our LordJesus Christ," the apostle Paul reminds us.Because of His unmerited favour toward us, asundeserving sinners, Jesus became poor sothat we might become rich.IRichin what sense? In the

sense that we could be redeemedfrom our own selfishness. InChrist we are forgiven and given anew life and new hope. JesusChrist died for us that we might bereconciled to God and becomeHis precious sons and daughters,the recipients of His loving careand concern. Yes, we were theones that sinned, but He paid theprice to redeem us by being borninto our sin-sick world, living in poverty and want and dying a hideous sacrificial death. But Hearose so thatwe could ex- ^

perience newness of life in wHim and receive the prom-ise of a glorious future withthe Godhead In eternitythat is to come. Today,dear Christian friends, weare rich because Hebecame poor for our sake!

NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 2001

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pnwl^e^ o^ A^i^inin^ t^ ^W %

One Church

One Church (in Christ) and two pieces ofgood news. Let us explain. One piece of goodnews comes to us from our neighbourhood herein the province of Ontario. During the last weekend of September 2001 in the city ofMIssissauga (right next to Metro Toronto),where GMM's office is located, ChurchillMeadows Christian Church was launched. JimTune, one of our Canadian GMM Board members, is also the minister of this new church. Thewonderful bit of news that we would like toshare with you Is that since the first day that thischurch opened its doors to the public, peoplehave been flocking to it In good numbers. Rightnow over 200 persons attend the services andhear the Good News of Jesus Christ, as it isbeing explained by Jim and his helpers.

The city of MIssissauga has over 500,000inhabitants, and many of them are recentarrivals who have come here to live from various nations of the world. There are manyCentral and Eastern Europeans. Someonerecently commented that every 5th person inthis city is of Polish decent. We are glad thatGod has put us In the midst of this excitingdevelopment.

Another similar bit of news comes to us fromWarsaw, Poland. In our previous issue of TheCrier we informed you of the plans for WarsawChristian Fellowship Church to launch a newcongregation in their city of two million inhabitants. We are happy to report that their prayersand proposals have turned out to be a reality.During the last Sunday of October the secondChristian Fellowship Church was birthed. God isblessing this new work as up to 150 people comeand hear the Good News of Jesus' birth, sinlesslife, sacrificial death and triumphant resurrection.

Friends, we share these pieces of goodnews with you that are taking place within theLord's one Church at two new addresses, for wehave a vital interest in both of them. Theybelong to Him. We pray for them and we arecommitted to work with them, as we want towork with all of you until we see Christ in glory.

At this Christmas season we focusour thoughts on the most importantand precious gift of all-the LordJesus Christ. But we also rememberand appreciate your gifts of prayer

and financial support for GMM's ministry. (Withoutyour support this ministry would not be possible.)Thank you.

Please remember that any gifts for which yourequire a 2001 tax-deductible receipt need to bepostmarked by December 31. To avoid disappointment please ensure that your gift is In the mail beforethe end of December 2001.

LIVING MEMORIALS

in memory of/Given by

Fred Posnfkoff, Alice Humeny, Mr. & Mrs. JoeForsiuk, Olga Forsluk, Tom Shawllnski, EdwardShawllnskI, Fred Satz

The Posnikoff FamilyAnastasia Nettie Forsiuk

Paul F. NourseNancy & Gary Vessell

Mary WilliamsBorys & Mary Ann BoyukEtterville Christian Church

Benjamin BajensklKeyston Class, Springfield, OHBryan StamperLee & Velma Farrell

Mr. & Mrs. Egnaty SidorchukSarah Rediich

Hiram MechlingWiliam & Carol Holland

GMM Missionaries: George &Vera Bajenski, George RepetskiGlobal Missionary IMInistries

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