Your Mission Dollars at Work

The Pro Novis program we told you about in August is up and running. Andrew Gorski writes, “We have started student recruitment.” This month classes begin in 12 small towns near and around Poznan.

These are English Language Schools (ELS). There is a great demand to learn English in Eastern Europe. With unemployment around 19% in Poland, those with English language skills have a much better chance of finding work. This is a win-win program, employing Christian church members to teach in the satellite ELS and at the same time reaching unsaved people with the Gospel. The objective is a small town (7-15,000) where there is no evangelical witness. Total population of the 12 target towns is 134,000.

Andrew Gorski (middle) with friends, looking at possible property for Polish ministries.

In the selected towns, starting next month, they will be organizing computer courses for the unemployed and undereducated. “City authorities love our idea!” enthuses Andrew. There will be no opposition from that quarter.

ITMI’s Richard Nungesser will be giving lectures in secondary schools, where he expects to reach 2,700 kids a month.

Meanwhile his wife, Brooke, has inspired her Ladies Fellowship to become involved in Prayer Walking for the prostitutes in Poznan. “This has been a time of definite sobering and heartbreak,” she writes. It’s also dangerous. They cannot make contact with the street girls because each one has a pimp and he is usually connected with the Mafia. You know, “Don’ta mess with my money or I breaka ya face!” So they pray.

And what is God doing in answer to their prayers? I’m so glad you asked! As He would have it, Piotr Zaremba and his church’s Pro Novis foundation have been meeting with Christian doctors concerning starting a medical clinic. Richard and Brook were invited to this meeting because of their work in the “Bread of Life” ministry (to the homeless). The doctors had heard of this outreach. The direction of the meeting soon progressed from starting a new medical clinic, to having it become a part of Bread of Life Ministries.

This means that once the clinic gets started, Brooke and her team will start handing out information to the ladies of the night about a clinic where they can go to get free medical check-ups. Truly, God is extravagant in His originality!

Stay tuned.