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"0 Crier of Good News... shout with the voice of a trumpet blast... your God is coming."
Isaiah
SERVING CHRIST IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM

"When I consider your heavens, the

works of your fingers, the moon and the
stars, which you have set in place, what
Is man that you are mindful of him, the
son of man that you care for him."
(Psalm 8:3-4)

changing technological advancements, we rec

ognize that we must be prepared to proclaim the
message of Christ "to all nations" (Matt. 28:19).
Poles, Russians, Belarusians and Ukrainians

today live all over the world. Radio is one

avenue of spreading God's Word. The Internet
will now take us even further. As the Lord opens
doors of opportunity before us, we are ready to
enter through them to different ways of serving

From time to time it is good to ask ourselves

simple questions such as: "Who am I?" and
"What am I doing?"
We of Global Missionary Ministries are doing
this at the beginning of this new year of 2000. As
we recall happenings from the past and consid
er our vision for the future, we say with resolve
that our life and work is tied in with missionary
outreach in Eastern and Central Europe. This
has been true during the past four decades of
the last century. Having been under different
names with different emphasis in Christian ser
vice, we can clearly identify ourselves with such
names as Toronto Christian Mission, Ring the
BellsPolish Mission, Global Missionary Radio
Ministries and now. Global Missionary

community in Poland and Eastern Europe. We

continue to produce Christian literature and help
needy people with benevolent aid. Also, for the
past ten years have been able to assist students
who are preparing for future Christian ministry
from the Benjamin Bajenski Memorial Fund.

Ministries.

These are some of GMM's involvements.

As we collect our thoughts, or perhaps as we

think of GMM's upcoming Annual Board
Meeting (end of February), or as we strive to
keep you, our friends, better informed of the
Lord's work through the efforts of GMM, we can
see how the Lord is preparing us at this time for
future ministry.
With a name like Global Missionary
Ministries and realizing that we live at the dawn
of the third millennium, which brings us everVOLUME 23

the Lord.

GMM's partnership missionary outreach to

the Slavic world continues to expand. Starting
with evangelism we are involved in a church
planting ministry. Radio, cassette and outreach
through the Internet is at our disposal. The
Christian camp ministry is in full operation. We
take an

active role in outreach to the Jewish

We thank God for His faithfulness over the

years, and for His Spirit that empowers and

motivates us to do His will. But we also thank

you for your prayers and support of this ministry.

We pray that God will keep you and guide you in
all His truth, as together we serve Him through
out this year and new millennium. We do not
know how long He will allow us to serve Him,
but we desire to continue to faithfully share the
Gospel message, until Jesus comes.

JANUARY - FEBRUARY, 2000

NO. 1

Three New Kingdom Workers

We are happy to present to you three

fine young students whom, over the past
years, we were able to encourage, as they
prepared for Christian ministry, through
GMM's Ben Bajenski Memorial Fund. All
three of these students will be graduating

from their respective Bible colleges and uni

versity, and soon they will enter their cho
sen fields of ministry. We would like to share
their testimonies with you so that together
we can rejoice in their accomplishments,
and thank God for adding them as new and
valuable workers in His Kingdom.
We appreciate your help in this type of
outreach to students through the Memorial
apprentenceship).
Iwait for the Lord's leading for the future,
as I desire to obey him. I would like to be a
medical missionary, and witnessing for

Fund.

Jeff Ponke

Some may remember my story from pre

vious "Criers." God brought me home to the
realities of Christ's death and resurrection

through the tragic death of Benjamin

Bajenski and the powerful witness of his
parents, George and Vera. On May 26.
1991 the Lord gave me courage to stand up
for my fledgling faith in Christ and on that
day I was baptized. Shortly after, I went to
Papua New Guinea with Teen Missions
International. There I dedicated my life to

Christ is something we all have opportunity

to do daily. "Be very careful, then, how you
livenot as unwise, but as wise, making
the most of every opportunity" (Eph. 5:15).
David Karel

My name is David Karel and I am the

son of Peter Karel who is a minister in the

coastal city of Kolobrzeg, Poland. Three

and a half years ago, through the help of

work for our Lord. Other short term mission

friends,

opportunities followed. During each one

God taught me lessons for life.
I had the opportunity to go to Johnson
Bible College for one year. Then I pursued
a Biology degree at Wheaton College. I

Christian Ministries, I had the opportunity to

entered

Medical

School

at

Queen's

University in Ontario in 1997. In December

of 1999 I officially ended lectures and that
was a day of celebration. Soon I will start
clerkship work in the hospitals for the next
year and a half (it is like a hands-on medical

different churches and

Polish

come to the United States to study at

Johnson Bible College. I decided to enroll in
the communications program, which
Includes radio and TV production and
broadcasting as a tool for spreading the
Gospel. I learned much. Since Johnson is a
Bible college, the greatest amount of time
was spent on Bible-related topics and
issues. This has been a blessing and given
me spiritual growth. In May my schooling at

Preaching. I have received my undergradu

ate diploma, so I thought it would be an
appropriate time for some reflection. What
is the greatest and most difficult lesson I
have learned in the past three years? I
learned to trust solely in God and His will
for my life, instead of my own abilities,
resources or even friends.

Speaking about the future, this year will

be very eventful in my life. I have just begun
my graduate studies at the School of World
Mission in Pasadena, California, where I

Johnson will be over.

After returning to Poland, I intend to be

involved in church work by doing what I

was trained for. Computers are becoming a
very important part of our lives at the
present time. I pray that my learned skills
will be used to serve others.

My present education would not have

been possible without people who decided

to give some part of their personal funds to
others who needed it. I would like to

express my great appreciation for the

assistance

received

from

Global

Missionary Ministries. That has been a

wonderful privilege and such an incredible

help to me. I just hope that one day I will be

able to help other people in the way I was
helped.

I trust that in this new year you will have

opportunities to experience God's power in
your life.

Luke Bajenski

Three and a half years have gone by

since I arrived at Pacific Christian College
to begin my studies in Church Ministry and

hope to complete my academic preparation

for ministry in Poland. It is an amazing
honor to be able to study and interact with
missionaries and pastors from over 60
countries represented there. 1 hope that
learning from them will help me find new
ways of enhancing our ministry in Poland.
Another exciting event in my life will
take place this summer. July 8 I plan to
marry Marisa Grussing. We met at Pacific
Christian College three years ago, and we
have been engaged since last August.
Marisa has also caught the vision of our
ministry in Poland and she dreams about
creating a Christian Preschool there, which
would help us reach out to Polish children

and their families. Both of us are still study

ing and two months ago Marisa and I began
part-time ministries at Diamond Canyon
Christian Church. Marisa serves as a

Children's Ministry Director and I serve as a

College and Career minister. We are very
excited about going back to Poland and we
plan to do so as soon as we complete our
studies.

We pray that God would keep us set

apart for His purposes, that He would teach
and test us, making us a good and faithful
"ministry team" through which we might
accomplish great things for God's Kingdom

more about God. Jesus said that we ought

to be like children! Praise God, that toward
the end of the week we left for home in

good spirits because many children had

accepted Jesus as their personal Saviour
and had even brought their parents to the
meeting.
We will conduct a similar evangelistic
outreach during the month of January in
Lutsk. Please pray for God to bless us, as
our mayor gave us permission to conduct
these meetings in the largest theater in
town. We are concerned because we know

that more that more than 3,000 children will

in Poland.

attend."

A Note from Our

Coworker, Valya,
Lutsk, Ukraine

LIVING MEMOl2IAL<S

"From November 22 to 28 we conducted

an evangelistic outreach in the city of

Luboml. About 160 adults and children

attended. One day at 6 p.m. we noticed only

a few children present. There was a snow
storm outside and the bus could not get
through with the children. But after about 20
minutes, around 30 children (ages 6-14
yrs.) burst in, all flush and covered in snow
from head to foot; they were wet from
sweating after running more
than 4 kilometers. Tears rolled
down our cheeks as we looked

In raemofy of/Given by
Benjamin bajenski

Nicholas &Deg^ Messersraith

Bob & ConnieZachrich

Gordon & Debecca <Souder

Jacci) Depetski
Frieda Dossol

John K. Maiy Huk

Eugene & Ilah Thomptson
DoberL & Ann Marrick

on these children who looked

like snowmen to us. They knew

that we, the leaders, would not ^ <

be here during the following (

week and they wanted to hear \

Michael Zidkovich
John Zidkovich

Isabelle Holiida)'
Samuel (S" Anna Ficych
Katie Wandich

Don & Judy Nayduk

GMM Missionaries: George & Vera Bajenski, George Repetski

Global Missionary Ministries
4141 Dixie Road, Box 20 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L4W 1V5
Tel. (905) 564-3578 Fax. (905) 564-5732

Forwarding USA address: Box 104 Geneva, Ohio 44041

Published 6 times a year

Address Correction Requested

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
GMM'S COWORKERS

Whenever any staff members of Global

Missionary Ministries (GMM) speak about
the mission's many-faceted ministries, we
like to remind our friends and supporters
that we are a mission that partners with

are asked to inform us of their blessings

and challenges and to send us financial
records showing how the funds we provide
them are being used. As a point of interest,
this practice is in keeping with rulings by

other Christian workers in the countries of

Revenue Canada and the IRS that state

Poland, Belarus, Ukraine and Lithuania.

that a charitable organization, which ex

pends funds for specific programs outside
Canada and USA, must give direction to
and control the programs that it supports.
For this reason our partners are asked to
regularly report on the implementation of

We are more than just "the two Georges."

There are many more individuals with
whom GMM works. In other words, there

are many more labourers in the spiritual

field of Central and Eastern Europe than
just those of us who work from GMM's
Mississauga office. When you support
GMM, you support many individuals and
the Christian ministries that they perform.
Over the last few years it has been our
practice to help people who are conducting
an effective ministry. We choose to help
them through our prayers, encouragement
and financial support. We enter into a
signed partnership agreement with them.
Part of the agreement specifies that they
fulfill the expressed programs of GMM. Of
course, in determining these programs we
work closely with our partners. They know
what can best be done and how to perform
their ministries in a way that will be most
effective. Their input in choosing appropri
ate forms and methods of ministry are
taken into consideration and from this we

determine what their activities will be. They

VOLUME 23

programs carried out with their participa

tion. In other words, the various ministries
have to be "ours" performed in cooperation
with our coworkers in the missionary fields
where they live and labor.
In this issue of "The Crier" you will read
about fellow Christian workers that conduct
such ministries in their homeland. GMM

plays a very important role by encouraging

these families in their ministries, praying
with them for their activities, working
together with them to come up with a work
able plan of action, and supporting them
both morally and financially. The people
written about in this issue are only some of
of the many coworkers with whom we part
ner. This means that GMM is more than just
2 or 3 individuals working in North America.
Its outreach extends far and wide including
Poland, Belarus, Ukraine and Lithuania.

MARCH-APRIL 2000

NO. 2

SIX NEW CHURCHES

Several months ago we announced that

GMM was involved in organizing a Church
Planting Mission in Poland. Today we are
happy to inform you that this project is now
a reality. On Sunday, January 16, 2000 the
Ciechanow Church conducted inaugural
services to officially launch this program.
During this service we were asking God to
bless the six dedicated Christian families
who committed their lives to a new church
work in six cities in central Poland where

there are no Bible-believing churches.

Having left families, friends, work places
and local churches, they moved from their
previous cities of residence (Warsaw,
Olsztyn, Torun Wroclaw area) to their newly

Mariusz and Barbara Czempka, Phillip (5),

Elizabeth (7) in the city of Przasnysz
(population of 18,000).

designated locations. They came with one

purpose in mindto teach and preach the
Gospel of Christ, knowing that it will be the
Lord who will be adding to His Church
those who will be saved.

The

leadership of the

Ciechanow

Church, with whom GMM established a

congenial working relationship over the

past years, assumes spiritual oversight of
these new churches. The Church Planting
Mission is responsibile for the many orga
nizational aspects of these newly opened
church plants. For example, since January,
under its leadership, already daily Bible

Marcin and Anna Beluch, who are expecting

their ^rst child in June, in the city of Pultusk
(population of 20,000).

classes have been conducted with these

church planters. The Church Planting

Mission will be organizing and conducting
times of fellowship and spiritual retreats for
these families and for the leaders of the

Ciechanow Church. It will be coordinating

the work of short-term mission groups who
will assist these churches from time to time.

GMM will continue to work closely with the

Ciechanow Church and with this Mission

spreading the Gospel across the land.

Friends, we are sharing this with you so

Mil

Grzegorz and Iwona Dziadosz, with their 5

month old son, Simon,

in Dzioldowo (population of 20,000).

that you might know more about our

involvements, so that you might also find
some way of getting involved in this excit
ing mission project. Just think, six new
churches starting their work in Poland this
summer. Many people will be able to hear
for the first time that by believing in Jesus,

Boguslaw and Agnieszka Zadrozny, married

for 3 years, labor in the city of Makow
(population of 10,000).

by faith, without money, without works, they

can be saved. This will be carried out by
local believers, our partners in Christ. What
a great task and responsibility is in their
hands, but this project also presents us
with a great opportunity! We can be
involved in building the Church of our Lord
Jesus Christ in Poland even while we are at

home. For there is only One Church. Yes,

some of us might be living here in North
America, others in Poland, Russia. Asia,

Africa, but there is only One Body, The

Church.

Krzysztof and Majka Lesnik with their children,

Lidia (19), Jakub (17), David (15), Sarah (13)
and Esther (8), in Lidzbark
(population of 8,000).

Possibly some of you would actually be

able to visit these places, sharing your
faith, your testimony, encouraging one
another, smiling, shaking hands with a
stranger. Just let us know about it. But
probably most of you will not have such an
opportunity. Then pray with us. Send an
encouraging letter. Help us financially. All of
this is needed and it will be greatly appreci
ated.

Tadeusz and Ewa Maculewicz, married for 15

years, in the city of Mlawa

(population of 30,000).

Being In full agreement with this vision,

GMM, by faith, has committed itself to sup
port each one of these church planters'
families $200 per month. Now we are pray
ing that God will supply these funds. To
accomplish this your help is needed . Ask
the Lord what He would have you do.
Introduce this very worthwhile project to
your Bible study group or mission commit
tee. We are looking for monthly commit
ments or a one-time offering designated for
this church planting project. We are includ
ing pictures, names, and short descriptions

of each participating family. Perhaps some

of you would like to adopt one of these fam

Livmg MmicyiuMs

ilies and the church with which they are

working, supporting them with your prayers
and finances. We will be happy to hear of
your decision.
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Alona Lazuta and her mother, Tatlana,

recently met with George Bajenski in

Warsaw, Poland, to discuss some develop
ments in their work in Belarus. Alona had

many good things to share with us. One

interesting project that Alona and her hus
band are working on is is the preparation of
a Christian magazine for intellectuals in
Belarus. There is great interest in spiritual
matters among the educated. The maga

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Dema Lazuta will be its editor. The first

issue is expected to appear in the middle of

April. They covet our prayers.
Actually, Dema is asking not only for
prayers. They need additional support for
work on this magazine and for their grow
ing ministry.

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GMM l\/lissio(TSnes: George &Vera Bajenski, Ge^e Repetski

Global Misstonary Ministries
4141 Dixie Road, Box 20 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Tel. (905) 564-3578 Fax. (905) 564-6732

L4W 1V5

Forwarding USA address: Box 104 Geneva. Ohio 44041 Address Correction Requested
Published 6 times a year
Printed in Canada

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

Finding the best way of presenting The

Old, Old story" of Jesus' life, death and His tri
umphant resurrection to today's changing world
is a challenging mandate. But to this we are

timony to countless listeners in the world of arts

and other places where a preacher would not

called, dear friends.

countries in which we are involvedBelarus,

Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine. Now, for the first

In our missionary activities in Central and

Eastern Europe music has always been an
effective tool of evangelism. We use our own
God-given talents of singing, playing and pro
claiming the message of Christ, but we are
always seeking out local national talents with
whom we can work in reaching their own people
for Christ.

One such evangelistically minded group of

national believers is "Missio Musica" of Poland.

This group grew out of a spiritual awakening

that God brought about on the campuses of
several academies and musical conservatories

in Poland during the final years of the commu

nist era. 'There was emptiness in the hearts of
many of us, students and professors alike," one
of them recently told us. "People were search
ing for higher purposes in life. There was
hunger for God." In one of these academies in
the city of Bydgoszcz, God used John, a
Christian student, to bring a whole school to

be allowed to speak."

GMM ministered with this group in all the

time, during the month of April we had an oppor

tunity to present a small number of this group of
accomplished musicians to our friends in the
United States and Canada. It is amazing how
the same message, framed in beautiful musical
presentation, touches people's hearts on both
sides of the ocean, for, as Scripture states, "we
all like sheep have gone astray" (Isa. 53) and
"all have sinned and fall short of the glory of
God" (Rom. 3).
We are happy to introduce this group of fine
Christian professional musicians to you. They
are worthy of our prayers and support.

their knees before the Lord. He stated: "Our

school within a day became a church without a

priest, pastor or any clergyman's involvement.
The spiritual awakening rapidly spread to other
academies and

out of this

movement the

Christian Musician's Fellowship, 'Missio

Musica,' emerged." Their goal is "to bring the
message of the Gospel through music and tes
VOLUME 23

John Muranty (front right), Director of

"Missio Musica," with some members

MAY-JUNE 2000

NO. 3

'GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO EAT..'

life with Christ and in the context of true

Christian fellowship?
Friends, we are excited about the oppor
tunities that God is giving us this summer to
live, to love and to serve Him. As in previ
ous years, Global Missionary Ministries will
be conducting and assisting local workers
in Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania and Belarus

Summer continues to be the best time to

teach our children and young people of

Central and Eastern Europe about the Lord
Jesus Christ. Church camps, sport activi
ties, Vacation Bible School programs, sum
mer clubs, music festivals, retreats, short-

term mission trips all of these and many

other innovative ways of bringing up our
youth under the clean, calm, yet exciting
influence of Christian living, brings desir
able results. It worked during the days of
communist oppression and it works now
during today's stress towards materialisti
cally-minded policies of a market economy.
I believe we shared with you sometime ago
a thought-provoking headline from one of
the Polish newspapers announcing a "new
religion in Poland," the supermarket. It real
ly does not make any difference to Satan
whether he will keep us from the Lord by
persecution or by some more appealing
method of pleasure or material gain. These
are the things that the people of Poland,
Belarus, Lithuania and Ukraine are begin
ning now to experience. At present many
children in these countries cannot afford to

attend our Christian camps any more. Cost

prevents them from having these few quiet,
yet exciting moments with the Lord and with
other young people. However, I would like
to ask the question, can we afford not to

give them the privilege of tasting this new

in different children and youth camps,

retreats and evangelistic activities. We
would like to inform you about them and
ask you to help us by praying for and spon
soring some of these efforts.
In late May we will have a group of
young people from Belarus at our camp in
Ostroda, Poland. This will be a group of
teenagers, mostly from non-churched fami

lies, that will meet and study the Bible.

Remember these teens and our local per
sonnel so that the Holy Spirit would mold
these young people into God's image and
bring them to a greater level of appreciation
for all that Jesus has done for them.

In June, at the same Ostroda Camp, we

will have a larger group of Jewish children

from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. We pray

that all of them will arrive safely and will find
there a restful place for their bodies and
souls.

Later, throughout the summer there will

be many other groups of Polish children
and young people at this camp. We need to
remember them, their counselors and
teachers and other workers who will attend

that we can conduct this evangelistic out

reach to the youth of Central and Eastern
Europe. There are parents in these places
who are able to send their children to sum

mer camps, but many of them simply can

not afford it. We would like to help them
because we believe that it is not only fun,
food and fellowship that they need, but,
above all, they all need God. We would like
to provide them the opportunity of experi
encing a close relationship with the Lord.
According to our estimates, costs vary
to the children's physical and spiritual
needs.

On May 28 our coworker, Valya, in

Ukraine will be starting a camp for her
pupils, about 100 of them from the local
orphanage and school where she labors.

This will be an intensive evangelistic out

reach ministry. These children live in a gov
ernment-sponsored home because many
of them do not have parents, some have
parents that are in prison, while others

belong to dysfunctional families. We pray

that God will touch their hearts and wipe
away all tears and sorrow.

from place to place in terms of sponsoring

a child at one of our church camps in
Europe. On the average, though, it comes
out to about $5 per child per day. Could you
sponsor one child for a day or two, or for a
whole week? Or, possibly you or your
Sunday School group could sponsor two or
three children whom we can send this sum

mer to one of GMM's camps in Europe. You

can designate your contribution as "Camp
Fund" by sending it to our mission address.
Thank you very much! We will tell you more
about these activities in our next issue of
the "Crier."

In June we will also be conducting a

Vacation Bible School at the new church

property in Solechniki, Lithuania, where

Victor P. ministers. We will be assisted

there by a group of four fine young Christ

ians from Poland. Also, in Belarus our
involvements will be felt this summer

through the ministry of Vladimir, the director

of a church camp located on a former
Russian military base. Recently we had an
opportunity to assist Vladimir in promoting
this camp during his visit in Canada and the
United States.

Friends, as we have mentioned, we

would like to inform you about GMM's sum

mer involvements in Poland, Ukraine,

Lithuania and Belarus so that you can pray

with us about these efforts of outreach to

needy children and young people. But we

also would ask you to help us financially so

Excerpt from our coworker,

Valya's letter in Ukraine

"In our church in Lutsk from January 2 8 we were conducting special evangelistic
meetings for children. Up to 500 children
were present. One 12-year old girl from the
city orphanage was regularly attending and
faithfully bringing her younger brother.
A few days after the meetings Valya met
this young girl, Irene, in the orphanage and
learned that her brother just died.
"Even when we were coming to the
meetings," Irene told me, "he was not feel

ing good. He had a lung infection, but we

had no medicine and we were afraid to tell

anyone because they would not let us go.

Every morning during this week he insisted

that I hurry up and get going. 'I want to go to

God,' he would say."
Irene corrected him saying, "Listen, we
are not going to God; we're going only
where they teach us about God." But he
Insisted, "I see God there."

Valya continues to write: "It is for chil

dren like this that you give your financial
help. It Is for such children that you pray. If
It was not for your help, we could not reach
these children and could not tell them about

God and, like In this case, a young boy

would have not heard about God and would
not come to know Him."
\

about 50 BIble-bellevIng churches, but only

about 7 or 8 have their own buildings.
Three weeks ago Dema was Invited to
the local university to give a lecture on
Christianity for philosophy students. It was
a challenge for Dema. They have many
questions. The topic of faith is very Inter
esting for them. They want to know the
truth. They want to know why Christianity Is
the answer among other religions. Dema
was Invited to give more lectures for them.
It Is amazing that the teacher of this group
Is a person who visited our Bible study
group for graduates last year. He Is very
close to repentance. Please pray for him."

From Belaruslan Ministry...

Dema and

Lena Lazuta of Minsk,

iheEiMO!RfSlCS

Belarus, recently wrote the following:

"In Minsk we organized several evange
listic events with distribution of Bibles.

During these meetings 13 teenagers and 7

adults became believers. We are grateful to

In memory of/ Qiven By

the Lord for that.

Our church Is growing and we decided

that next fall we will have two Sunday morn
ing services or. If we can, we will rent a
place for Sunday morning meetings.
Sunday School for children is growing too.
Now the church's greatest problem Is lack
of space. Please pray about the project we
have. We are raising money now to buy a
private house and rebuild it into a church

building. It is the only way we can have a

building. The problem with rent is that the
government does not allow us to rent pub
lic places for Christian meetings. Some
times it Is possible to get permission, but It
Is very difficult. The situation with places for
meetings is very bad. In our city we have

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GMM Missionaries: George & Vera Bajenski, George Repetski

Global Missionary Ministries
Mailing address: 4141 Dixie Road, Box 20 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L4W 1V5
Tel. (905) 564-3578 Fax. (905) 564-6732
Box 104 Geneva, Ohio

44041

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"O Crier of Good News... shout with the voice of a trumpet blast... your God is coming."
Isaiah
GROWTH IN SPITE OF DIFFICULTIES

The Christians of Eastern Europe face var

ious difficulties in their lives and outreach

ministries. Just recently I spent time in

Ukraine and Belarus conducting Christian min
istry with national Christians. In spite of many
difficulties that they face, the believers contin
ue to preach the Gospel and are meeting with
success. This is seen in the many people that
are coming to Christ and being baptized. What
are some of the Christians' problems?
In Minsk, for example, churches are grow

ing and need more space. But right now it is

this very thing. But for our Slavic people in

Eastern Europe, this is a new thing and
requires some adjustment in their thinking.
Another crippling problem is financial and
economic instability in countries such as
Belarus and Ukraine. The Christians themsel

ves cannot support large construction projects.

As money becomes available (mostly from

Western sources), they build the next stage in
their project. The greatest problem in this is the
fact that wages are extremely low ($20 to $50
per month, if people get paid at all). One sis-

almost impossible

to get a permit to |

build a new church

building.

Those

churches that re-

ceived permission

ter, a medical doc-

.
,
^
.
h
One sister,
sister, a
a medical
medical doctor
r whom
whom Imet,
I met, receives
receives
t
just
$28 per
month sal
salary for
her work. She works
)r her
j"st $28
per month
in a hospital that has hardly
any medicines, food or
h
bedding. She also does
do< house
use calls on foot. And
for this
for
this
am
a mere $28
i28 per month.

to build during the

early 1990's have
either completed
their building pro
grams or are still erecting a new sanctuary. But
over the last few years in Minsk no church has
received permission to purchase land and put
a church building on it.
Good News Church is facing such a dilem
ma. They have to make a decision about their
future. First, they either need to expand their
present facility, or look for another piece of
property, where they will be able to build a
church with a seating capacity of 500 to 700.
But they cannot do this right now. However,
they have to do something to deal with their
increasing attendance. Their solution for now
they will begin conducting two identical Sunday
morning services and ask people to attend one
of them. For us. living in Canada and the USA,
this is nothing new. Many congregations do
V0LUIV1E 23

tor whom I met.

receives just $28

pgr month salary

for her work. She

works in a hospital

that has

hardly

any
medicines,
food or bedding.
She

also

does

house calls on foot. And for this a mere $28

per month. Many people are in this situation.

Christians are finding it hard to support their

own churches, especially those that are still
putting up their new church buildings. They
look to fellow believers in richer Western coun
tries for assistance.

In spite of these difficulties, our brothers

and sisters in Christ are evangelizing their peo
ple. The churches continue to grow both in
cities, towns and small villages. Camps and
Daily Vacation Bible Schools are taking place
throughout Eastern Europe in many places.
We praise God for this and are thankful to Him
for the part He gives us and you in this out
reach with the Good News that Jesus saves.

The following pages tell about their victories.

JULY-AUGUST 2000

NO. 4

Jewish and Polish

Baptism in

Camp for Senior Citizens

Warsaw Church

Polish and Russian Jewish

Christian Fellowship Church in Warsaw,

Poland, also recently conducted a wonder
ful baptismal service. Over 25 people testi

beiievers enjoy singing together

fied of how the Lord worked in their lives to

"This is something wonderful. It's some

thing that only the Lord has put togetherl" A
Christian worker in Poland made this state

ment during camp for elderly people in

Ostroda Camp. Two groups were there,
one from

Poland, the other from

St.

Petersburg, Russia. The latter was a group

of Jewish people. It was wonderful to see

how these two groups mingled with each

other and enjoyed mutual fellowship. In
Christ we are all united!

Later during the week six of the people

from St. Petersburg were baptized in the
lake at Ostroda Camp. This was a time of
great witness to the faithfulness of God in

the lives of those that came to accept His

Son, Jesus, as the Messiah.

bring them to faith in Christ and were now

following the Lord in obedience through
baptism. Each person had his own story to
tell.

One stated: "I was born into a religious

family, but religion had little to offer me.! left
the church that I knew. But I met a person
that became my friend who happens to go
to this church. He introduced me to a living
faith. Jesus has become very dear to me
and I want to follow him for the rest of my
life."

Another testified: "I got into drinking and

the drug scene, then was confronted by the
message of Christ. It changed everything
for me."
The Lord has used the Christians from

this particular congregation to reach out to

their friends. As a result, many are finding
the Lord and following Him.

Preparing for baptism

of Jewish beiievers

Summer Camp in Ukraine

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Summer Camp in Belarus

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Summer is camp time, not only in the

In March of this year we had Brother

USA and Canada, but also in Central and

Vladimir visit us from Belarus. He is the

Eastern Europe. GMM provided funding to

conduct a special camp for children from
the "Internat," i.e. from the orphanage in

director of a camp that is located close to

the city of Kobryn. Children from all parts of
Belarus come to this camp. About half of

Lutsk, Ukraine. Our coworkers there have

them are from non-Christian homes. For

been reaching out to these children for sev

eral years and wonderful results have fol
lowed. Many of these children accepted
Jesus as their personal Savior and Lord.
This year 120 children attended and
daily received instruction in the Word of
God. They also played games and worked
on crafts. It was obvious that they were
having great fun and learning about the
Lord. Please pray for our coworkers in
Lutsk as they do follow up work with the
children who were at camp, so that they will
continue to grow in Christ.
They all gave me a traditional warm wel
come with salt and bread (symbolic act of
welcome) when I visited them. By this they

the first time in their lives they heard the

message that Jesus came to save them

expressed their deepest thanks to us and to

you, our supporters, for making their camp
a reality.

and live in their hearts.

For several years the local authorities

refused to register this as an official camp.
So the Christians called a fast and prayed
about the situation. Within a short time the

head of the commission that grants licens

es to operate camps suddenly was fired.
Another person took his place and a few
days later the authorities granted full regis
tration to the camp. Now the leaders run
this camp without fear that it could be
closed down. Praise the Lord for this!

Another unique feature about this camp

is that it houses a medical clinic that tests

children for the effects of Chernobyl's radi

ation within the borders of Belarus and

helps them deal with this problem. Also, the

children receive needed dental care.

A Bible Study Room on a Military Base

The Lord sometimes works in places

where we least expect it. For example, I
was privileged to visit a military base in the
city of Minsk. One of my friendsa mem
ber of a local church in Minskinvited me

to visit a special room called "The Bible

Study Room" within the local military com

pound. This was a wonderful surprise for
me. To think that several years ago there
would never be anything like this in the mil

Typeset of Full Bible

in Belarusian Completed

Recently we submitted the final typeset

copy of the Bible in Belarusian translation
to the translator, Vasil Syomukha, who lives

in Minsk. George Repetski did the typeset

and assisted in editing. He recently met
with the translator to discuss the best pos
sibilities for printing the Bible in Belarus.
We will keep you posted as things develop
in this project.

itary of the old Soviet Union. But now,

through a miraculous set of circumstances,
the Lord has placed a room where
Belarusian soldiers can come and hear

about Him. My friend regularly goes to this

room to conduct Bible studies with the men.

The room is beautifully decorated with

Bible texts.

It has a

TV with

video

machine. There are Christian films, includ

ing the "Jesus" film, which the soldiers can
watch off hours.

The room also contains

cassette tapes with sermons and Christian

G. Repetski with V. Syomukha

songs, and books. Young men are discov

ering Jesus Christ in this special Bible
Study Room.

LIVING
MEMORIALS

In memory oj! Given by

Benjamin Bajenski
L(aine Larri^on
E[sie Tahak

Jofttt Si Mary Melashenko

Margaret Triesen and Family
Soldiers with Christian worker

Alice HumenyThe. Posnik^Family

in Bible Study Room

GMM Missionaij^: George &Vera BajensJiL^eorqe Repetski

GIBbal Missionary Ministries
4141 Dixie Road, Box 20 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L4W1V5
Tel. (905) 564-3578 Fax. (905) 564-6732
USAaddress: Box 104 Geneva, Ohio 44041 Address Correction Requested
Publislned 6 times a year Printed in Canada

nc

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

Isaiah

STANDING TOGETHER

In August we had the opportunity to pre

sent the work of GMM at a large gathering
of Christians during the Wl-Ne-Ma Week of
Missions that was held at a beautiful setting
along the Pacific coastline of northwestern
Oregon. It was a wonderful time of fellow
ship with those present and a great oppor
tunity to share with them God's many bless
ings and new challenges that we face In our
work In Central and Eastern Europe.

We do this very thing whenever we are

in Poland, Belarus, Ukraine or Lithuania. As
a matter of fact, even here in North

America, where religious tolerance seems

to be stressed today to Its limits, we preach
the same truth, "for it is the power of God
for salvation of everyone who believes"
(Rom. 1:16).
Friends, we share these few thoughts
with you today because they are deeply
rooted in our hearts. They constitute the

The theme of this conference, "Our

Stand in This New Millennium," was devel

oped in accordance with the teaching

Q
of apostle Paul, as recorded in the
second and fourth chapters of his let
ter to the Phillppians. In addition to
various mission presentations, my
assignment was to speak on the subject of "Standing Together" for the
cause of the Gospel. I was very glad to
receive this assignment. It reinforced In me
God's voice by which He, for some time
already, had been speaking to my heart
about the Importance of His fundamental
teaching, that the Church of our Lord Jesus

Christ Is one (Eph. 4:4) and that the mission

of the Church is also one. We are to "go Into
all the world and preach the Good News"
(Mark 16:15) that "Christ died for our sins,
according to the Scriptures, that He was
buried, that He was raised on the third day"
(1 Cor. 15:3-4) and that some day soon He
will return (Acts 1:11).
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foundation for our entire mission endeav

our. We like to stress the importance

of our standing together for the

cause of the Gospel, with you who

live here in North America, and with
all our many national partners who

live and work in those countries of

Central and Eastern Europe. We

believe that we are living In the last days,
about which Scripture states: "there will be
terrible times" (2 Tim. 3:1), "when men will
not put up with sound doctrine" (2 Tim. 4:3),
"they will turn their ears away from the
truth" (2 Tim. 4:4). We need to stand firmly

with all fellow believers today in the teach

ing and preaching of the Gospel In all of Its
purity and power. We need to work in unity
as one Body, the Church, directing the
world to Jesus only in whom salvation can
be found (Acts. 4:12).
May God help us all, as we stand and
serve our God together.
George Bajenski

SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2000

NO. 5

Getting the Gospel Out

to a Changing World

We live in a rapidly changing world.

Consider, for example, the whole area of
the computer and the Internet. Already the
business and secular world has accepted
this form of communication and promotion.
Christians have understood that they, too,
must use the Internet to get the message of
Christ out to the world. Many communicate
by e-mail while church and Christian orga

Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian lan

guages as a form of communicating the

message of salvation through Jesus Christ.
They will include articles that deal with
Biblical themes for the purposes of leading
our visitors to faith and obedience to Jesus

and to further instruction in the ways of

Biblical Christian living. Our partners who
live and labour in their respective countries
wil! contribute their articles to our website.

They write well in their own languages and

know the local needs and situation of their

when we at GMM were using radio as one

of our prime methods of sharing the Gospel

people. Therefore, their articles will have

special appeal to their fellow countrymen.
Some of our coworkers have already estab
lished their own websites and we will pro

nizations have established their websites to

propagate the Gospel. There was a time

message. Now at the beginning of the 21^

vide links to them on our website.

century we are launching our own website.

We are doing this for two reasons. First,
we would like to provide any individuals,
churches and any other groups the oppor
tunity to learn about us using the Internet.

There is another very important aspect

to this form of ministry. As a result of
changes that are taking place in Europe

Our website gives quick access to such

become better equipped, as they have

studied both in their own theological institu
tions and abroad. For many decades all
instruction seemingly has been going from
the West to the East only. We believe that

information about GMM as to who we are,

the essence of our organization, our history

and different forms of ministry and praise
notes and prayer requests. Informative arti
cles, including articles from the latest edi
tion of "The Crier," will appear as time pass
es.

The second and most important reason

is it that we will develop pages in the Polish,

many of our Christian coworkers in the

countries

of

GMM's

ministries

have

the time has come for North American

Christians to hear and consider what our
friends from the East can contribute to our

understanding from their point of view. We

will assist them in translating some of their
articles into English so that more people
can read what they have to offer for the rest
of the world.

We would like to inform you that Dima

and Lena Lazuta, together with their
coworkers from the Good News Church in

Dima and Lena Lazuta

Minsk, Belarus

Minsk, Belarus, have already established a

website in the Russian language. Recently
they shared with us that they have started a
new Christian magazine that has been
placed on their website. One of their church
members, Irina, has been working as editor
of this magazine. She is presently studying
philosopy in the Belarusian State University

and soon will

receive her Ph.D.

Dima

Lazuta writes the following: "She has been

a member of our church for 7 years and has
recently completed the first issue of our
magazine. If you could support her from
September, this will be excellent." Following
discussion we at GMM have made the deci

sion to that we would like to support Irina in

her ministry with the Lazutas. We want to
find interested people who would help
through their financial support of her.
Concerning the magazine itself, Dima
continues to write,".. .the name of our mag
azine is "Christian Culture." We are going to
evaluate different streams of social, cultural

and ethical life of our society through the

glasses of Biblical values. The magazine
address is: www.christ-culture.chat.ru. This

magazine is not a Good News Church mag

azine. We want to be an evangelical voice
in the Russian-speaking world, and the
main purpose of the magazine is evangelis
tic and apologetic."
We thank God that our coworkers in

Minsk have been able to place "Christian

Culture" magazine on the Internet and we
will provide a link to it on our website.
Furthermore, we will assist them to trans

late some of their articles into English so

that people with a knowledge of English
can also read and contemplate their mater
ial.

Another example of using the Internet

for communicating the Gospel Is that of our
coworker, Przemek Siczek in Warsaw,
Poland, who visited our offices last

February. Two years ago he began a suc

cessful Internet ministry presenting the
Gospel through music. He writes, "The pur
pose of our ministry is to reach Polish
young people with the Gospel of Christ in a
most relavent way through very popular
media of music and the Internet." At the
moment Przemek serves as the webmaster

of three websites in Poland: www.jezus.pl.

www.kdm.pl. and www.ewanaeliajDi.

He

Przemek Siczek

Warsaw, Poland

has stated, "About one thousand visit our

sites every day. It is, indeed, a vast mission
field that cannot be ignored." Przemek
helped us prepare the website page for
GMM's global Internet outreach with the
Gospel, which will serve different Slavic
peoples living in Central and East Europe
and around the world.

The message of Christ cannot and will

not change, but the methods used in reach
ing out to people do. Will this mean that we
hide behind some keyboard and screen
and stop seeing and ministering to people
on a face-to-face basis? Absolutely not!
What we have been doing on a person-toperson basis will continue, as before. We of
GMM will continue to travel to Poland,
Belarus, Ukraine and Lithuania to minister
with the local believers, our coworkers and,

thus, build the Church. Changes of the past

years call us to adjust our ministry to the
realities of our present day. We would invite
you to check
in
on our /
website and 1
find out more

about us and

leave

your l-LL a

(f^ ^

questions
and comments, should that be your desire.

You can contact us by going to our website:

www.mismin.com.

lenges so that he will be able to continue his

study at Johnson Bible College. As parents,
we are not able to help him financially, but we
pray and trust that the Lord will move the
hearts of those who are able and would be

willing to help. May God bless and richly

reward all of you who are helping others.
Peter Karel."

GMM has been able to assist Ruben with

his initial financial needs for tuition and other

living expenses from funds made available to

us through the Benjamin Bajenski Memorial
Fund. This in itself is not sufficient to cover all
his costs. In order for Ruben to continue his

Ruben Karel

We are happy to inform you that another

student from

Poland enrolled at Johnson

Bible College in Knoxville, TN. His name is

Ruben Karel, the son of a Christian Church

minister in the city of Kolobrzeg. His older

brother, David, graduated last year from JBC
and returned to work with his father in Poland.

Ruben is 21 years old and very gifted in

art and music (including the harmonica). He
is spontaneous and has good rapport with
people, thus, good potential for Christian min
istry. Ruben wants to serve the Lord. We are
introducing him to today because you will
hear about his good work in the future.
Gi\/I!\/I assisted Ruben in coming to the
United States to study to prepare himself for
Christian ministry and, upon return to Poland,
serve the Lord in whatever capacity God will

studies at JBC he needs to raise approxi

mately $3,000 per semester. Obviously, he
needs help. We recommend Ruben for your
consideration in prayer and financial support.
Could you or your church include him on your
prayer list and consider financial support?
Any contribution on behalf of Ruben Karel
and his study in Bible College can be sent

directly to Johnson Bible College or to us at

GMM, 4141
Dixie Road, Box 20,
Mlssissauga, Ontario, Canada L4W 1V5.
With your contribution please include a note
that this is for "Ruben's education."

LIVING

MEMORIALS

lead. However, at the moment Ruben still

needs our encouragement and prayers. His

father, Peter, recently wrote: "We are happy

In memory of/ Given by

and thank the Lord that our second son

Elsie Hollister

decided to study the Bible and that he too

Edwin & Marion Zimmerman

wants to serve God in Poland. We know it is

by God's grace that Ruben can now be in

Bible College in the USA. We trust that the
Lord will help him in all of his financial chal

Fred Posnikoff

The Posnikoff Family

GMM Missionaries: George & Vera Bajenski, George Repetski

Global Missionary Ministries
4141 Dixie Road, Box 20 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Tel. (905) 564-3578 Fax. (905) 564-6732

USA address: P.O. Box 104 Geneva, Ohio 44041

Published 6 times a year

L4W 1V5

Address Correction Requested

Printed In Canada

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

"IT CAME UPON THE MIDNIGHT CLEAR"

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It might have been at the moment of "midnight clear" that the angel and a multitude of
the heavenly host appeared praising God and saying: "Glory to God in the highest, and on
earth peace, good will toward men." However, only a few shepherds heard this remarkable
heavenly proclamation. They heard and believed, and they obeyed the message. They
came in haste and found the Babe in a manger.
It must have been the most exciting moment of their lives. It gave them true joy and
peace as they thought about the things that the angels talked about. They could not hold it
any longer to themselves, so they rushed to the town sharing this "good news of great joy"
with all who were in their sphere of hearing.
The response, as we read in the Scripture, was interesting. People just "marveled at
those things which were told them."
Now, two thousand years later, the same song of the angels still can be heard: "Glory to
God in the highest," but do we hear it?

"For low, the days are hastening on

By prophets see of old.
When with the ever-circling years
Shall come the time foretold.

When peace shall over all the earth

It's ancient splendours fling,
And the whole world give back the song
Which now the angels sing."

VOLUME 23

NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 2000

No. 6

teaching and fellowship with many missionar

ies and friends from north-west churches. It

was a privilege for us to be able to travel by

car all across the United States with two Bible

College students from Poland, Ola Bajenski

and Ruben Karel, whom we are helping in
their studies through GMM's Benjamin
Bajenski Memorial Fund. I must admit that it
was a challenge to be together for 3 weeks, but
it was enjoyable and blessed our lives in many
ways.

For us, the year of 2000 was very eventful,

exciting and rewarding, both in our personal
lives and ministry. God blessed us with good
health and kept us busy. Behind us are many
miles of travel, answered prayers, opportuni
ties to witness and souls brought to the Lord.
However, one longing remained unfulfilled.
Jesus still did not return! But thanks be to God

for this, for He is so patient and not wanting

that anyone should perish (2 Peter 3:9). Thank
you, Lord, for still keeping Heaven's gates
wide open to this very day.
Of the last 365 days about 150 of them we
spent personally in Europe working with other
national Christians, preaching, teaching in
churches, camps, schools, orphanages, on the
streets, in cities and villages throughout Po
land, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine. God
blessed this work and many of those who lis
tened He added to His Church.

Approximately 90 days of this year we

spent in numerous short-term mission trips in
the United States, preaching and singing in
churches and representing GMM at various
conferences or camps. A real highlight for us
was attending the North American Christian
Convention held in Louisville, Kentucky.
Another slightly longer hike by car took us to
the state of Oregon to participate in Wi-Ne-Ma
Week of Missions. This was a special time of

Another special event that we were a part

of was a family wedding, that of Luke Bajenski,
son of my nephew, Andrew, and Urszula, his
wife, from Warsaw, Poland. The last few years
Luke has been studying in Bible College in
California. He invited us to marry him and
Marisa, his beautiful California bride. We could
not resist this happy family occasion, it took us

all the way to "blue" Hawaii.

The rest of our time this year we tried to
stay close to our homebase and GMM's office
in Mississauga, Ontario. Here there is always
much to do by way of studying, writing and stu
dio recording. While at home in the Toronto
area, we attended our local churches, whether

English, Polish or Russian, as we were occa

sionally called upon to serve.
Thus, another year of our lives has quickly
passed by. Actually, another century and even
millennium is passing, but the joy of serving
Jesus leads us on. His constant presence,
never-failing assurances and this most joyful
news, which was proclaimed by angels on that
silent, holy night is still with us. Thus, we anx
iously await that blessed hope, the glorious
appearing of our great God and Saviour, Jesus
Christ (Titus 2:13). We wish you the same,
dear Friends.

Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year!

George and Vera Bajenski

I and acknowledging their need for

Jesus. Also, the Lord gave us oppor
tunities to be involved personally in

'

Christian camps, Daily Vacation Bible

School and baptismal services.
2. By means of literature that was

printed and is now being distributed.

During this year we saw the publication of the book, "Old Testament
Heroes of the Faith" in Belarus. Also,

The Old Testament prophet, Isaiah, remind

ed his contemporaries that mankind walks in a
form of darkness, spiritual darkness, and the
time will come when God's light will appear and
shine for all people to see: "The people walking
in darkness have seen a great light; on those
living in the land of the shadow of death a light
has dawned" (Isaiah 9:2). We know that Jesus
was and still is God's light to the world. We
remember His coming during the Christmas
season and celebrate the fact that God's light
did, indeed, appear for our benefit.
This is the message that we have shared
with people in this passing year of 2000. And
what a privilege it has been! We feel so fortu
nate that, in partnership with you, our friends
and supporters, we at GMM have had another
year of opportunity to spread the "good news of
great joy" to the different peoples of Central and
Eastern Europe. These opportunities presented
themselves in various ways:
1. By personal contact with people in
Ukraine. Belarus, Poland and Lithuania. This
year I spent several weeks of intense ministry in
Europe by personally visiting many churches
and individuals. There were many church serv
ices in which the Gospel was preached.
Individuals responded by repenting of their sin

we were able to complete the typeset

of the complete Bible in contemporary
Belarusian. We pray that in the year
of 2001 this Bible will be printed, distributed and read by those who
appreciate the Belarusian language.
3. By means of the spoken word on cassette
and radio. The Lord continues to give us oppor
tunity to be on both religious and secular sta
tions with the spoken Word. Letters come in
expressing deep-felt thanks for the broadcasts
that instruct them in the ways of God. Those
messages were also put onto cassettes and
distributed with the help of our friends and
coworkers who live in the countries of our min

istry. We wish to say "thank you" for your part in

making all this possible.
Concerning our family, you see the picture
aboveleft to right: Lucille, George, our
younger son Ian, our daughter-in-law Melissa,
and elder son Tim. Lucille continues to work as

a public health nurse while both of our boys are

working in tool-and-die companies. Tim com
pleted work for a BA and BEd degrees, but
chose to also

learn the tool-and-die trade.

Melissa manages an office for a family-run busi

ness. We thank the Lord for a great year togeth
er, as a family, and for His innumerable bless
ings.
Our family wishes all of you God's greatest
blessings, a joyful Christmas and wonderful

New Year.
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The Repetski Family

Bethlehem Church

Since the early 90's we have been working

in Belarus with Brother Ivan Bukaty, developing
a mission center in their capital city of Minsk,

of construction on the complex. The church

facility of Minsk Bethlehem Church was officially
openedjust in time for all of this year's
Christmas program preparations! Praise the
Lord!

which would accommodate a new church, sen

ior citizens' home and other outlets for evangel

Now they are working hard on the second

phase of this project, which will be a senior citi

istic outreach in that country.

zens' home. In the meantime, another beautiful

opportunity presented itself in the development

of this project. Through the efforts of "Hansi

Ministries," conducted by a Czech-born
American citizen, Maria Ann Hirschmann, best

known by her book, "The Girl Who Loved the

Swastika," a home for orphaned children will be
added to this church and senior citizens' com

plex.

It is exciting what God is doing in this land in

spite of many political, social and economic
problems. We are informing you concerning this
project because our fellow believers there will

still need many of our prayers and financial supGod has blessed this effort. They received a
prime piece of land in a new developing district
of the city. Following this they formed a local
mission. We were able to introduce them to
some Christian friends from the United States

and South Korea and, through the combined

efforts of many of God's people, this wonderful
project has been developing during the last 8
years.

Soon after the beginning of the construction

project, a new congregation at the construction
site was started. They called their church (very
appropriately for this season) "Bethlehem
Church." Now they have 140 members and 200
children attend their weekly Sunday School pro
gram.

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LIVING MEMORIALS
In memory of/ Given by
Benjamin Bajenski
Larry & Janice Snyder
Keystone Class of First Christian
Church

Paul F. Nourse

Gary & Nancy Vessell

Richard Brunsman

The latest development, of which we are

happy to inform you, is that during the last
weekend of September of this year there was
an official dedication of the completed first stage

Patricia Brunsman

Alice Humeny
The PosnikofF Family

GMM Missionaries: George & Vera Bajenski, George Repetski

Global Missionary Ministries
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