New Testament Translation Completed!

Beloved,

This is Dec. 31st. 2003. And this e-mail is to let you all know, that the translation of the New Testament from Greek to Polish (a translation similar to your ESV or NASB) is DONE.

God is gracious and faithful.

You are the most faithful prayer partners. You really stirred a prayer movement.
And the Holy Spirit kept blowing.

We — you and us — arrived.

One of our last meetings before we arrived was the one with Paul and Luke in Rome, Roman Empire.

Paul was just out of prison planning his next step.

Luke told us that for the last two years Paul lived at his own expense, and welcomed all who came to him, proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness and without hindrance (Acts 28,30f).
It spoke to me a great deal. I identified with Paul. My next door neighbor, who is taking my peace for years now and recently endowed our Christmas time with heavy bombing of the walls, also did not manage to slow our progress in proclaiming the Kingdom. And one day I will be out — like Paul — planning the next steps.

Then I though about you all. Some of you are in semi-prisons of your busy schedules, family needs, job requirements, checques and due payments, taxes, depressing thoughts, uneasy-to-live-with family members, neighbors, bosses and coworkers, worries about your beloved in far-distant lands in dangerous situations — well, this is life as it is for now. But it will not be forever. All imprisonments finally end. And — like Paul — you will be planning the next steps.

Whatever it takes, let us stay open for Him to show us, in these coming years, how to detour the ”bars” and — like Paul — keep proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness and without hindrance.

Your for His —

Piotr Zaremba