MISSIONPOLAND SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER 2024
AUGUST 15 TO 29 - MINISTRY AND FAMILY VISITS in FLORIDA (Orlando), NORTH CAROLINA (Black Mountain), ILLINOIS (Chicago) , WISCONSIN (Milwaukee), INDIANA (West Lafayette), TENNESSEE (Franklin) and back to (Orlando) FLORIDA (THE LORD WAS WITH US ALL AT EACH STOP)
(We will be home in Florida from August 29 to September 21)
MISSIONPOLAND - ANNA and JOE LOSIAK 105 LAMPLIGHTER ROAD - ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, FL 32714
LOSIAKANNA@GMAIL.COM 407-227-4766 / JOELOSIAK@YAHOO.COM 321- 368=4448
Thank you Dear Friends!
... For your prayers and much needed support as we have dedicated all our working time to our ministry to the Polish nation in Polish and for the Polish diaspora in English as well; as the second generation abroad and new generation in Poland prefer English. We will send a third quarter report to all who gave in 2024 and a financial summary of the first nine months. That report will be mailed to all who gave a donation in 2024. We are praying that at least 90% of our set budget comes in by December 31. Donations mailed to MissionPoland 105 Lamplighter Rd. Altamonte Springs, FL 32714 will be held unopened in our home until we return on November 5th by our son Lukas who has served in our camping ministry in Poland and is completing his masters degree in counseling.
There are four other ways to send a donation to MissionPoland which will reach us instantly while we are in Poland which are listed here below. Contact us by phone or e-mail (joelosiak@yahoo.com) to know how to send a donation while we are in Poland through direct deposit at the Fifth Third Bank, PayPal or ZELLE which has branches in banks across America.
SCHEDULE FOR ANNA & JOE ŁOSIAK FROM SEPTEMBER 13 To NOVEMBER 4, 2024
SEPTEMBER
16 - MONDAY - KRAKÓW & BOCHNIA - ANNA'S MINISTRY TO WOMEN AND FAMILY
22 - SUNDAY - KRAKÓW - JOE ARRIVES IN POLAND
26 - THURSDAY – KRAKÓW Grace Ukrainian Church – Pastor Hlopkov
27 – FRIDAY – Still being scheduled
28 - Saturday KRAKÓW ‘Poland’s Campus Crusade for Christ’ for Former Polish Staff
29 SUNDAY (NIEDZIELA) – TARNÓW BAPTIST CHURCH Service 10am Pastor Irek Skocień
OCTOBER - PAŹDZIERNIK
2 Wednesday – KAMIEŃ POMORSKI Baltic Coast - Pentacostal Ch. Service Pastor Kowalinski
3 Thursday Woman’s conference – KAMIEŃ POMORSKI - Meeting w/ Anna
5 Saturday – SZCZECIŃ Evangelical Christian Church - Women’s meeting w/ Anna
6 SUNDAY – SZCZECIN Evangelical Christian HQ Church Service & luncheon Pastor Dziadkowiec National President of all Evangelical Christian Churches
7 Monday – OLSZTYN – Ministry to Families with Monika and Mirek Wierenko – Baptist Elders
8 Tuesday - OLSZTYN – Ministry to Families with Monika and Mirek Wierenko – Baptist Elders
9 Wednesday – SZCZECIN Evangelical Faith Church – Mid-week Service Pastor Dziewiecki
10 Thursday – POZNAŃ Baptist Church Leadership meeting w/ Pastor Michał Pochroń
11 Friday – KRAKÓW Church of God The Lazarus Church - Mid-week Service
12 Saturday – SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS - Women’s retreat with Anna
13 SUNDAY (NIEDZIELA) – KRAKÓW 2nd Baptist Church AM Service Pastor Stanisław Gluszek
16 WEDNESDAY – Still being scheduled
17 Thursday - PALOWICE Brethren Church mid- week Service – Elder Marian Pawlas
18 Friday – UPPER SILESIA Brethren Church mid-week Service
19 Saturday - PALOWICE Brethren Church Youth Rally Evangelism – Elder Marian Pawlas
20 SUNDAY – GROJEC MAZOWIECKI Brethren Church Service 10am Elder Paweł Ratz
22 TUESDAY - KONSTANCIN-JEZIORNA – Roman Catholic Church w/ Ks. Andrzej Bafetowski
23 WEDNESDAY – Still being scheduled
24 THURSDAY – Still being scheduled
25 Friday - KALISZ Baptist Church Service Pastor Tomasz Jeżyk
26 Saturday – LEGNICA Baptist - Woman’s conference w/ Anna
27 SUNDAY – LEGNICA - First Baptist Church of Legnica, Poland Pastor Paul Eager
30 WEDNESDAY – Still being scheduled
31 THURSDAY – Still being scheduled
NOVEMBER - LISTOPAD
1 FRIDAY – Being Scheduled while in Poland
2. SATURDAY – Being Scheduled
3. SUNDAY – All being scheduled in October.
WAYS TO DONATE TO MISSIONPOLAND WHILE WE ARE IN POLAND
1. There are eleven states which have our Mission Bank, the Fifth Third Bank and deposits can be made there at a drive up or walk in by writing the MissionPoland account number on the deposit slip and on the Check. MissionPoland account # 744 049 0212 - to personally deposit at any Fifth Third Bank.
2. PAYPAL: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/missionpoland can be done from your home computer and our PayPal account is connected directly to the MissionPoland bank account. We receive those funds immediately as we can cash our MissionPoland salary checks, and reimbursement checks by cell phone.
3. We are registered at ZELLE which is in hundreds of banks across America, and you would be sending the donation directly to me Joseph Losiak, and I would personally transfer the donation to the MissionPoland account by computer or phone. The Zelle account # is 321-368-4448 in the name of Joseph Losiak. I will be notified immediately and electronically transfer the donation into our MissionPoland account. Donations sent to our Florida address will be deposited Nov.5th
We hope and pray you are all well as we all are looking to the “Author and Finisher of our Faith..”. We thank our Lord daily for your participation in MissionPoland as we know that only the Gospel of Christ has the power of Salvation and from the beginning the strategy of the enemy has been to present a different gospel distorted gospel. Our message continues to be that no one can improve on the Gospel given to us by Jesus Christ, His Apostles and the Prophets of God in the Old Testament. This month we are preparing for our next trip to Chicago and to many cities in Poland this Fall.
We have been challenged and encouraged to write another book on Poland and the Gospel – “once for all time given to the saints”; this time in English first. So, both of us will be working on that project for at least two years when we have the time.
This summer we have several reunions of our wonderful family in America, including a mis- August week in North Carolina in the mountains with everyone. Thankfully, the Lord has provided us with a newer car (2020 Toyota RAV) just this week which we were able to buy with our savings over the years and some help from a very close friend. Your support for MissionPoland has allowed us to go on for over twenty years and to finish our course to His honor and glory.
We are preparing for meetings across Poland with a short stop for meetings in Chicago starting in September and we will keep you informed in our monthly newsletters. Modern day communications keep us in touch with many in Poland for prayer and planning instantly most of the time. All who have donated to MissionPoland this year have a six-month report along with this letter which is available to anyone else who wants it.
Finally, we are considering a one day 50-year celebration of ministry with many friends in Kraków, Poland on a Saturday in October which will bring many Polish friends together and hopefully will be used to encourage many others to faithfully evangelize the new generations.
“And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.” Romans 8: 28, 29
Joe and Ania Łosiak in Poland (Services, Evangelization with Joe Łosiak teaching and Christ Centered Meetings for Women with Anna Łosiak teaching
MARCH 2024
19. Tuesday – Automobile Travel from Florida to Chicago (Minisamtry meeting in Tennessee with Allen & Dale Weed)
21. Thursday – Meetings with friends and supporters in Chicago and Suburbs
22. Friday – Meetings with friends and supporters in Chicago and Suburbs
23. Saturday – CHICAGO: Polish Women’s Conference Polish Christian Center w/ Anna Łosiak
24. SUNDAY – CHICAGO: Polish Christian Church Service with Joe Łosiak 10am- 1pm
24. SUNDAY – CHICAGO AREA: Ministry Meeting in English for American Friendsat PCC 3020 N. Austin 1pm-3pm
25. Monday – CHICAGO: Final USA Spring Ministry Meetings and 10pm flight to Poland from O’Hare Field
SPRING SCHEDULE IN POLAND 2024 (Church Ministry meetings) MARCH, APRIL and MAY
25. Monday – CHICAGO: Two Ministry meetings and 10pm flight to Poland from O’Hare Field
31. SUNDAY * – LUBLIN – New Covenant Church Easter Service and dinner – 10:30am to 4pm
APRIL 2024 (Personal ministry on days not listed as well around scheduled meetings)
4. Thursday *– KRAKOW Ukrainian Ch. of God (Pastor Andrey Hlopkov) Planning & Prayer 11am
4. Thursday *- KRAKÓW LAZARUS House Church & Recovery Center – Evangelistic 6pm
5. Friday – KALISZ *Baptist Church – 18:00 Bible Study (Pastor Tomasz Jeżyk)
6. Saturday * – LEGNICA Baptist – (Women's Meeting with Anna Łosiak and Charlene Eager)
7. SUNDAY *– LEGNICA Baptist Church – 10:00 (Pastor Paul Eager – Moody Bible Institute)
9. TUESDAY *– TARNÓW – Baptist Church (Prayer meeting with Pastor Ireniusz Skoczeń and former Oasis Moderator Jurek Główka )
13. Saturday - KRAKÓW - (FRANKLIN GRAHAM) Anna will bring family and long time friends to a full stadium near her home,
14. SUNDAY * - TORUN Christian Baptist Church - 11:00 (Pastor Michał Prończuk)
14. SUNDAY *– TORUŃ Ukrainian/Russian Immigrants Baptist Church 16:00
15. MONDAY *– KRAKÓW – Ministry Dinner with the living Baptist Elders in Krakow and the superintendent of the first Christian Grammar School in Kraków whom Joe knew as Teenagers at the First Baptist Church in Kraków where Joe attended.
18. Thursday *– KRAKOW Ukrainian Ch. of God (Pastor Andrey Hlopkov) Planning Meeting for next month
19. Friday *– ZAKOPANE (Kraków Woman’s Fellowship mountains outing w/ Anna teaching)
19. Friday *– JAKTORÓW w/ Joe near Warsaw Brethren (ul. Chemińskiego 116 Elder Paweł Ratz)
20. Saturday *AM WARSAW 11am to 3pm – (Brethren Bible Study w Elder Paweł Ratz)
20. Saturday *– KONSTANCIN JEZIORNA (9am Catholic Reform Movement leader & priests). Gospel Presentation
20. Saturday *- WARSAW - Brethren Church Bible study
21. SUNDAY * – WARSAW – Brethren Church Service 9am to 2pm
21. SUNDAY *– WARSAW - 4pm. 2nd Baptist UKRAINIAN Church (Pastor Joseph Sheremet)
22. Monday * – NOWA HUTA – 19:00 Catholic Sudents at Emmanuel School invited us to speak – evangelistic
26. Friday – KRAKÓW - NOWA HUTA - 3rd Baptist Church prayer meeting
28. SUNDAY *– KRAKÓW- 2nd Baptist Church (ul. Armii Krajowej 4 / Elder Stanisław Głuszek) Led by the children who grew up in the First and at one time only Baptist Church n Cracow where Joe also attended.
30. Tuesday - Warsaw and Torun Our Polish Ministry Books to be dropped off on the way to the Baltic Coast
MAY 2024
1. Wednesday * – KAMIEŃ POMORSKI Pentacostal Ch. (ul. Słoneczna 4a - Pastor Daniel Kowaliński)
2. Thursday * – SZCZECIN Evangelical Christian Ch. (Denomination President Leon Dziadkowiec)
3. Friday *– PALOWICE – Brethren Church - 18:00 Evangelistic Meeting (Elder Marian Pawlas)
4. Saturday *– UPPER SILESIA - Brethren Church 18:00 Teaching Meeting (Elder Marian Pawlas)
5. SUNDAY LUBLIN *– Evangelical Christian Church (ul. Probostwo 30 - Pastor Marcin Mizak)
7. Tuesday * – KRAKÓW - (Private meeting w/ former Catholic Oasis HQ Leader – Wojtek Zajac)
8. Wednesday - TORUN w/ Ministry Books for Ukrainians
9. Thursday *- KRAKOW Ukrainian Church of God (Pastor Andrey Hlopkov) Salvation & Holy Spirit message
10. Friday – KRAKOW – WARSAW – CHICAGO (Return flight for Joe to Chicago)
11. Saturday *** – BOCHNIA & KRAKÓW (Two weeks of personal and family ministry for Anna)
11. Saturday *** – CHICAGOLAND – (PRIVATE MEETINGS for Joe w/ long time supporting friends)
12. SUNDAY *– CHICAGO – Polish Christian Center Church morning message 10:00 to 13:00
12. SUNDAY – CHICAGO – Afternoon Flight to Orlando
Joe & Anna Łosiak in Poland -Services, Evangelization & Christ Centered Meetings for Women Joe & Anna will be the speakers and teachers at all these meetings except for six of them where they will participate. Pictured below are some of those we have previously visited and are still in ministry encouraging them.
THE LEADERSHIP CORE OF THE NEW COVENANT CHURCH IN LUBLIN IS MADE UP OF FORMER ROMAN CATHOLICS
THE LAZARUS HOTEL FOR MEN AND WOMEN IN RECOVERY NIGHTLY BIBLE TEACHING AND PRAYER MEETINGS
Roman Catholic Priest Andrzej Bafeltowski who leads a reform movement among priests and lay people all over Poland and connects with them unofficially by Internet and group meetings where they live. We have given them out outlines on the book of Romans and all of our books. We meet at their invitation every year.
The Ukrainian Baptist Church in Warsaw Poland where we have spoken and taught for the past three years.
THE NOWA HUTA CHURCH WOMEN NOW ATTENDING THE PENTECOSTAL AND BAPTIST CHURCHES THERE
THE ORIGINAL OASIS LEADERSHIP STILL LIVING HAS MET WITH JOE AND ANNA SEVERAL TIMES OVER THE PAST TWENTY YEARS AS MANY ARE STILL FINDING THEIR WAY INTO DYNAMIC CHRIST CENTERED CHURCHES. PICTURED HERE IS MODERATOR WOJCIECH ZAJĄC, FOUNDING FIRST SECRETARY DOROTA SEWERYN, ASSISTANT TO THE FOUNDER FRANCISZEK BŁACHNICKI BROTHER STANISŁAW AND JOE WHO HELPED THE OASIS MOVEMENT FROM 1975 TO 1978.
ON THE BALTIC COAST THE COSTAL TOWN KAMIEŃ POMORSKI IS BLESSED BY THE EVANGELICAL PENTECOSTAL CHURCH THERE WHERE WE HAVE SERVED AN VISITED MANY TIMES
THERE IS A DEDICATION OF ONE'S SELF TO BE AN INSTRUMENT OF THE LORD WHEN CALLED TO DELIVER A MESSAGE FAITHFUL TO HIM ALONE. APPROPRIATION OF HIS WISDOM IS A SOLEM TASK WHICH REQUIRES PRAYER AND FAITH TO AND IN HIM ALONE.
SENIOR ELDER PAWEL RATZ HAS LED THE WARSAW BRETHREN CHURCH FOR ALMOST TWENTY YEARS AND HAS OFTEN WORKED WITH US IN OTHER CITIES AS WELL. STEATED ON MY LEFT IS THE FOUNDING PASTOR OF THE LONDON POLISH BAPTIST CHURCH.
Outdoor meetings in the farming comunities of eastern Poland ar over seen by the Evangelical Christian Pastor Jacek Duda from Lublin where we will be speaking on the fitrst Sunday in May 2024.
LOSIAK FAMILY PICTURE WITH DAUGHTER MARY'S FAMILY: LUKAS LOSIAK, JOE LOSIAK, KONRAD LOSIAK, MARY HAVLOCK AND ANNA LOSIAK IN THE BACK AND UP FRONT DANIEL HAVLOCK WITH JUNE AND SPENCER HAVLOCK SURROUNDING HIM.
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2023 Christmas time and all the way to the 2024 New Year our family had a blessed time together with us. The Lord comes first and under his grace and love we have family, ministry, church, work, Christian family and everyone else we come in contact with to be a witness to by our lives and words. This is our prayer and our constant 'meta-noia' challenge in all we will be and do. Without the Lord we will fall apart completely. Thank you for your prayers as we also pray for you (if we know you). Our monthly newsletter is sent to all who are led to pray for us and our mission, as we will pray especially for our MissionPoland friends which includes our extended family. Drop us a line and let us know how we can pray for you. joelosiak@yahoo.com or losiakanna@gmail.com .
“… I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who has enabled me … putting me into the ministry … I obtained mercy … and the grace of our Lord was exceedingly abundant with faith and love … ” 1 Timothy 1: 12-14
We are rejoicing for all our families and for the Lord giving to all of us the “ministry of reconciliation” because of what Christ has done for us who have believed.
Our two-month mission trip to churches in Poland ended with a northwest regional conference, where Anna had the opening and closing session. The conference theme was “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11: 28) Anna has been visiting these women for the past five years with Joe speaking to the whole congregation. This all-day women’s conference was re-started after ten years. It was a blessing to see new younger woman serving with great enthusiasm and being encouraged, as all were uplifted with great joy.
Our Fall mission to Poland was wrapped with Anna's Women's Conference in Szczecin on the Baltic Sea. All before the conference and after she was recovering from a bad cold. She went to Szczecin by train and returned to say good-bye to many friends and family until April 2024 when we are scheduled to return to many churches and schools across Poland. This winter in Florida we will concentrate on reaching out to the 500,000 Americans of Polish background now living in Florida - many of whom still have Polish as their first language. Many Poles living in the northern cities also visit Florida in the winter. There are two Polish Facebook groups in Florida with over 5000 members who have been publishing many of our Video Bible messages with outlines in Polish for the past few years. POLONIJNY INFORMATOR - FLORYDA and POLSKIE SPOTKANIE NA FLORYDZIE. We also send those videos with Bible Study Outlines to Polish groups in England, Scotland, Canada, Australia, Continental Europe and others in the USA. We are praying that we will meet many of them here in Florida over the winter as we are also developing a list of strong evangelical churches, they can take their families to from Tallahassee to Miami.
HERE WAS OUR SCHEDULE OF TEACHING MEETINGS THIS PAST FALL.
SEPTEMBER 2023 (* Meetings where we were teaching)
16 * FRIDAY – LONDON, UK Polish Evangelistic meeting for all, Refreshments and Women's and Men's meetings with Anna and Joe Łosiak at the Ealing Green Methodist Church 6pm to 10pm in Ealing Green, W5 5, UK
16 * SATURDAY– GRUDZIĄDZ – New Catholic Renewal Formation Meeting with Joe Losiak
16 * SATURDAY – OLSZTYN Baptist Church –Women’s Meeting w/ Anna Losiak
17 * SUNDAY - BYDGOSZCZ Evangelical Church Service
17 * SUNDAY – ŚWIECIE Evangelical Church Service
18 MONDAY - OLSZTYN (Dinner with Anna's sister Monika and Mirek her husband of twenty five years. They are officers in their Olsztyn Baptist Church.
19 * TUESDAY - WARSAW (Lunch with the leading elder of the Warsaw Brethren Church & RCC Priest)
20 * WEDNESDAY KRAKÓW - NOWA HUTA (Visiting Anna's mother and attending the mid-week service at the Third Baptist Church in Kraków Nowa Huta where Anna grew up and was the leader of the Oasis movement before that movement was overtaken by the Roman Catholic Hierarchy after the murder of the founder Franciszek Blachnicki who was a close friend when Joe was in Poland from 1974 to 1978.)
1 - 23 KRAKOW & BOCHNIA - FAMILY, PREPARING NEW OUTREACH IN OPOCZNO, ŁOMŻA, KRAKÓW & FRIENDS MINISTRY
22 * FRIDAY – KRAKÓW – House of Lazarus Church & Live in Rehab Facility – Church of God
24 * SUNDAY - OPOLE ‘One Way’ Church – Worship and Teaching 10AM Service for Former Catholics – Church of God
29 * FRIDAY – KALISZ Baptist Church Mid-Week Church Service
OCTOBER 2023
1 * SUNDAY – LUBLIN – Evangelical Christian Church Morning Worship Service
1 * SUNDAY - LUBLIN Evangelical Christian (Woman’s Afternoon Meeting with Anna Łosiak)
2 * MONDAY – LUBLIN New Covenant Church leadership meeting
6 * FRIDAY – KAMIEŃ POMORSKI Pentecostal Church Service
7 * SATURDAY - SZCZECIN – Women’s Meeting with Anna Łosiak
8 * SUNDAY - SZCZECIN Morn. Evangelical Christian Service
10 * TUESDAY - KROŚCIENKO - Two hour private meeting with the last living founder of the original Oasis Light and Life Movement
11 WEDNESDAY – KRAKÓW – Third Baptist Church of Kraków Bible Study
12 * THURSDAY – KRAKÓW Grace of Christ Ukrainian Church Service
12 * THURSDAY – KRAKÓW Emmanuel Christian School Classroom Evangelism to Poles and Ukrainians
13 * FRIDAY - KRAKÓW Lazarus House Church for Adults sheltered for Christ-centered re-habilitation.
14 * SATURDAY - KRAKOW NOWA HUTA Pentacostal Church Women's Conference with Anna Łosiak
14 * SATURDAY - ŁOMŻA (Evangelism with the Warsaw Free Church Brethren Elders)
15 * SUNDAY - ŁOMŻA (NEW EVANGELICAL CHURCH SERVICE) - AM
15 * SUNDAY - WARSAW Ukrainian Baptist Church Service - PM
18-20 * * WEDNESDAY TO FRIDAY OPOCZNO & ŁOMŻA CHURCH PLANTING – Free BRETHREN CHURCHES
21 SATURDAY - TRAVEL TO LEGNICA IN WESTERN POLAND FOR SUNDAY SERVICE
22 * SUNDAY- LEGNICA Evangelical Church Morning Service
NOVEMBER 2023
4 * SATURDAY - SZCZECIN – Evangelical Churches NW Regional Woman's Conference w/ Anna Łosiak
(*) Meetings where we were teaching.
MIAMI - ORLANDO
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In July Anna was on a planned trip with our daughter Mary, her husband Daniel Havlock and their two ten month old twins (Spenser and June) who fly to Poland free at their age. Anna here is pictured with her mom Maria on her right and the co-founder and historian of the largest Catholic youth movement who opened the door to Evangelical Protestants to do all the teaching at their camps for thousands while I was in Poland from 1974 to 1976. It was at that time after singing and sharing at University Student gatherings in Cracow 1974 two very important Catholic leaders asked to meet with me knowing that I was not a Roman Catholic. Both I eventually learned understood that Mary the earthly mother of our Lord's human birth cold not be equated with Jesus Christ, His Father and that there was only a Holy Trinity and not a Holy Quartet. The Lord had me meeting with both men separately as they knew each other very well and they both allowed Biblical evangelism and teaching which had nothing to do with Mary. Unknown to me back then they sent a priest from Poland to live with my mother and father in Chicago as he was visiting Notre Dame which had that arrangement with Poland. There were no phones for us back then and I would communicate once or twice a year with my parents. Here is our family in Poland this month of June 2023 for a family wedding and for four generations to be together The four Havlocks (Daniel, Mary and the two 10 month old twins - Spenser and June, Three for the Wierenko family Monika, Amelka and Mirek as well as Great GrandMother Marysia Ochel seated next to Anna Łosiak and the twins right before them.
Anna's Catholic father accepted the Gospel message on his death bed as we both spent his last two days alone with him while he was dying. Anna's mom left us alone as we witnessed all day to her father. Next week Anna will spend her last two weeks in Poland with her mother on her small veggie and fruit farm 25 miles east of Cracow. In mid July, Anna and I will prepare and organized another tour of many churches all across Poland in September and October. We speak at each stop and have our own ministry handbooks written and published several times over the past fifteen years. At the end of this month, I will send our July newsletter out to most of you and in the first week of July, just before Anna returns, I will send all who donated to MissionPoland a full report of all funding and expenditures for these first six months of 2023. Lord willing we will continue together full time as MissionPoland for five more years after this year. Any donations mailed by June 30 will be included an help us reach perhaps close to 70% of our budget for the first six months of 2023. We usually do better in the final six months as tax season gets more difficult for all of us each year.
Also in July, Joe flew to Chicago for two days and stayed in a hotel near Oakbrook where we had a reunion of our Christian band "Morning Star" which sang and preached in the Northern Illinois and Wisconsin area in places like De Paul University, Trinity College, College retreats (Advances) with Campus Crusade for Christ in Wisconsin, Camp Awana, Timberee, many weekends at Adventure Land in Medinah, Santa's Village and the Wheaton Bandshell. Only four of us were able to get together due to illness . Two of these four pictured here pastored churches and two did mission work in Africa and Poland.
Again! Thank you for your prayers and helping to make MissionPoland possible as we all prepare for eternity with another ministry trip to many churches in Poland this Fall 2023! We have already set up ten meetings in ten cities and will set up at least ten more befotre we leave on September 12, 2023. That schedule will be posted here in September.
We pray that our mission last Spring with twelve Polish
Christian workers mainly from Poland and Canada will take all they learned back to their homes and churches in Poland. Seven well known Bible teachers from the USA took part in the 12 days in our home and three days in Chicago where most Polish speakers live. MissionPoland made all the arrangements and key sessions have been broadcast all over Poland. Romans 8: 37
CHICAGOLAND: * The Moody Bible Institute (May 26 FRI.- 10AM to 3PM), * CrossPoint Church in Ingleside, Illinois (FRI. May 26 FRI - 6PM to 8PM), * The Moody Church Polish Bible Conference (May 27 SAT.11AM to 3PM), * The Iwona and Tadek Banasik Ministry House (May 27 SAT. 6PM to 10PM) Polish Christian Center Church (May 28 SUN. 10AM to 2PM). These meetings in Chicago have all been great and completed with God's blessing. The Polish Christian Center meeting on May 28 Sunday, is pictured below. The message and response was amazing !!!
FLORIDA: * Northland Church Polish Bible Conference in Longwood (June 3 SAT.- 9AM to 3:30PM), * Live Oaks Community Church and Lunch with the Brattons (Woodridge Campus) near The Villages (June 4 SUN. - 10AM to 2PM) * Grace Community Church in Lakewood Ranch, FL (near Sarasota) (June 4 SUN. - 6PM to 8PM)
May 27 Saturday - Polish Bible Conference (Speakers: Pastors Pawel Chojecki and Greg Krumes) 10am at the Moody Church
May 28 Sunday - Polish Christian Center Sunday service and fellowship after the 10:00 am service in Chicago
June 2 Friday – Dinner and meeting (Speakers Dave and Donalyn Bratton) 5:00 pm at our home in Altamonte Springs, FL.
June 3 Saturday - Polish Bible Conference at Northland Church in Longwood, FL. (Pastors: Jim Henry, Grant Richison, Josh Laxton & Paweł Chojecki)
June 4 Sunday morning, we will be at The Evangelical Free Church near the Villages with the Brattons and Sunday afternoon we will head out the Tampa Bay area for an outreach still being planned for the many Poles that live there.
Please pray with us that our LORD will transform this schedule into impactful, significant Holy gatherings that will bring Polish believers together under Him & touch the lives of many still unsaved to bring “Great joy” to those cities.
"And there was great Joy in that city" Acts 8:8
THIRTY ONE KEY MENTORS, PASTORS, TEACHERS, CHURCHES AND MISSIONS IN OUR LIVES OVER THE PAST FORTY AND SIXTY YEARS SINCE OCTOBER 31, 1962
(Richard E. Wager, Lance Latham, Craig Massey, Dave Sunde, Louis Goldberg, Harold O.J. Brown, Nelson ‘Bud’ Hinkson, Dick Sanner, Conrad Koch, Martin DeBoer, Bill Bright, Josh McDowell, Ed Komoszewski, Grant Richison, Jim Henry, Paul Cowan, Norm Geisler, Phil Hook, Joseph Dillow, Erwin Lutzer, Mary Whelchel Lowman, James Kennedy, Bill Vesely, Johnny Kopecky, Steve Kovic, George Verwer, Ray Staszewski, Franciszek Blachnicki, Krzysztof Bednarczyk, and Zbigniew Czerwinski)
We did learn and work with many others over the years and could have listed more names, but these were the main teachers, pastors, mentors, missions, schools, and churches that stand out in my mind. Our Polish evangelism and discipleship handbooks written by us for the Polish mindset, have been consolidated for reprinting and distribution in November of 2022.
THE MAIN ORGANIZATIONS & CHURCHES THAT WE LEARNED FROM & SERVED OVER THE PAST 40 and 60 YEARS: Awana, Navigators, Youth for Christ, Campus Crusade for Christ, Moody Bible Institute, Emmaus Bible Correspondence School, CCC Institute of Biblical Studies and churches where Joe served in ministry include Emmanuel Baptist Church, Moody Church, First Baptist of Orlando and perhaps one hundred Polish churches in Poland, England, Canada, France, Ecuador and in the USA. Anna and Joe have also organized and directed children's, teen's and adult camps at the Moody Youth Camp, Silver Birch Ranch, Camp Timberlee, The Polish Eben Ezer Camp and many other camps in Poland.
"There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all." Ephesians 4: 4-6
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MissionPoland Board Members 2024
Clarence Ostałkiewicz (1924-2013)
Harold O.J. Brown (1933-2007)
Leonard Jankowski (1936-2021)
Martin W. DeBoer (1944-2021)
Raymond Phillip Staszewski (1934-2022)
Gregory Krumes ( 1953- 2023)
Pastor Dick Sanner - Chair * Donalyn Bratton – Secretary *
Joe Łosiak - Director * Anna Łosiak - Acting Treasurer *
Iwona Banasik * Pastor Ed Komoszewski * Pastor Grant Richison *
John Lieske * Stu Urban