A long time friend Jurek Dajuk who is the lead singer for “Mission Music” asked me if I would join him on 2 rode trips. Mission Music is a group of professional musicians. Most of them play in various symphony orchestras around Poland. They put on evangelistic concerts in Poland and even Europe. Depending on the need, the team ranges from 2 people (Jurek and his wife Gosia) to a group of 50 musicians.
Our first stop was the county of Kaliska (a group of 6 villages) which organized a 2 day fair. Jurek arranged for the villagers to attend 2 days of choir training to sing together with him his gospel program. There were so many very good things happening there that I don’t have space here to write about them all. In nutshell, about 40 people attending the choir practice (where aside from practicing songs they heard the gospel and spent 8 hours with the team), they sang gospel songs with us, other choirs also sang gospel, and we gave the main performance each evening.
Although this was organized by village officials, they had banners everywhere with the phrases “Be Holy” “The Lord is our Shepherd” “Let’s praise the Lord”. The local children did 2 dramas. One about Lazarus and the rich man, and the other about the 5 foolish and 5 wise virgins. The entire 2 day program looked more like a Christian festival than a country fair. About 300-400 people attended each day. The people of that region are very open to God and are very religious. After talking with Anatol, the main country administrator (the “major” over the 6 villages) it turns out that he is born-again and 10 years earlier attended the Christ for the Nations Bible School in Gdynia. Even though there is no church in the Kaliska region they are so open that if a missionary came to start a church, he would have open doors everywhere and the blessing of Anatol who would also help. Please pray for the Lord to raise someone up to plant a church in this area and for Anatol to stay close to the Lord although he has no church where he could attend.
