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4 12 14 : A COVID-19 Church Planting Country in Need Response in Krakow, of the Gospel Poland Phone: 888-844-2624 COAH E-Mail: [email protected] The Mission of the Church COME OVER AND HELP Website: coah.org Dear Come Over and Help supporter, AMERICAN ADDRESS: Social distancing, quarantines, racial strife, protests, riots, and recessions fill our P.O. Box 431, Hudsonville, MI 49426 newspapers, social media feeds and newscasts. It is hard not to feel overwhelmed by the uncertainty of the events from this year. Mission Statement CANADIAN ADDRESS: COAH partners with churches in What is the mission of the church in the face P.O. Box 275 Stn Main, Brantford ON N3T 5M8 Eastern Europe to bring glory to of all the chaos and darkness? Sadly, some churches have tried to pacify societal anger God through gospel proclamation Board Members by bending a knee to political pressures. and practical ministry. Mr. Bas DeLeeuw, Chairman These vain attempts will only diminish the Mr. Rob Brouwer, Secretary importance of the gospel. The mission of Mr. John Brink, Treasurer the church is the same as it was during the Mr. Ross Derkson, Board Member time of the apostles and will continue to be Mr. Tom Moerdyk, Board Member the same until Christ returns. Pastor Andy Dr. Gerald Procee, Board Member Johnson summarizes what the mission of the Greg Slingerland Mr. Scott Vanoostveen, Board Member church should be: “The church’s mission is Communications and Development Director [email protected] Pastor Arnoud Vergunst, Board Member to display the glory of God by declaring the Mr. Raymond Mr. Greg Dr. Sacha Walicord, Board Member gospel to all people, by gathering churches in every place, and by filling them with Roth Slingerland disciples who obey God and will praise Him forever for His grace.” Administrator & Communications Committee of Recommendation Come Over and Help has a role to play in this mission as we partner with local Project Director and Development The committee consists of those who endorse churches in Central and Eastern Europe to proclaim the gospel and to gather and Director the vision and mission of Come Over and Help. disciple believers. Though COVID-19 has brought complications to how the mission is carried out, we know God has a perfect plan. Despite cancelled pastors’ conferences, COAH is a non-profit organization Dr. Joel R. Beeke Pastor & President of Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, MI summer camps, and other outreach events, we have seen unexpected opened doors with charitable status in Canada Dr. Gerald Bilkes and blessings as churches find new ways to shine the light of the gospel. and the USA. Professor at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, MI Pastor William Boekestein The foundation of COAH is the Pastor of Immanuel Fellowship Church (URCNA), Kalamazoo, MI Instead of getting bowed down with the groanings of the creation around us, Dr. Sinclair Ferguson let’s embrace the mission before us and look towards a time when racial unrest, Bible, which is the Word of God. St. Peter’s Free Church in Dundee, Scotland COAH adheres to the revealed Dr. W. Robert Godfrey social distancing and division will be done away. The apostle John describes for truths and principles in that Word President of Westminster Theological Seminary (West), Escondido, California us what the fulfilled mission will look like in Revelation 7:9-10: Dr. Michael Horton “After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, and to the Three Forms of Unity Professor at Westminster Seminary California, Host of White Horse Inn, and Editor of Modern Reformation magazine) (Heidelberg Catechism, Canons of from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the Dr. Steven J. Lawson throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their Dordt, Belgic Confession) and the President of OnePassion Ministries. hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs Westminster Confession. Pastor David Lipsy Pastor of Heritage Reformed Church, Burgessville, Ontario to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” The board and staff of COAH Dr. John MacArthur Pastor & President of The Master’s College in Newhall, California I want to thank you for standing alongside are affiliated with Reformed, Dr. Albert N. Martin Come Over and Help and encouraging us and our Bible-believing Churches Emeritus Pastor Trinity Baptist Church of Montville, New Jersey partners to stay faithful to the mission of the church. Pastor Conrad Mbewe and ministries. Pastor of the Kabwata Baptist Church in Lusaka, Zambia Pastor Iain Murray Author and former editor of Banner of Truth Trust Dr. Jon Payne U.S. Charitable Registration Number Senior Pastor of ChristChurch Presbyterian in Charleston, South Carolina 38-3415486 Pastor Maurice Roberts CDN Charitable Registration Number Emeritus Pastor in Inverness, Scotland and former editor of the Banner of Truth (UK) 868109091RR0001 Dr. Derek Thomas Senior Pastor of The First Presbyterian Church of Columbia, South Carolina Pastor Peter VanderMeyden Connect With Us Emeritus Minister of Free Reformed Churches of North America Mr. Paul Washer facebook.com/COAHelp General Director of HeartCry Missionary Society, Radford, Virginia 2 3 Belarus: A Country in Lukashenka is known as ‘Europe’s last dictator’ for his authoritarian style of Need of the Gospel government; repression and force are used to maintain control and power. By Raymond Roth Area: 207,595 square kilometers Population: 9,408,400 (declining) Religious Context Official Languages: Belarusian, Russian According to WorldWatch government pressure because of Capital: Monitor, the constitution of Belarus perceived links to the West. Non- Ethnic Groups: 84% Belarusians guarantees religious freedom, but traditional denominations such 8% Russians the reality is different. The Belarus as Baptists and Presbyterians are 3% Poles Orthodox Church enjoys privileged labeled as sects and viewed with 5% Other status, while all others endure suspicion, if not outright hostility. GDP Per Capita: $6,744 USD Come Over and Help’s Role in Belarus Recent History Come Over and Help has supported of Gospel & Reformation Publishers, Under the reign of Catherine II, the sovereign nation, and in mid-1994, the small Reformed church community which puts out the best of classic and Belarusian territories were acquired their first president, Alexander in Belarus for many years already. The current Reformed works into Russian by the Russian Empire and held until Lukashenka was elected. He remains Brotherhood of Reformed Evangelical and is supported by Come Over and World War I. During this time, it was president to this day, duly re-elected Churches is a loosely organized group Help. The study centre is also used for intensively ‘Russified’, with effects every so often via elections criticized of about 20 churches, most very small, filming book talks on various Reformed lasting until the present day. Following by the West as not being open and and of Reformed persuasion. We are books in Russian, which are posted the Russian Revolution, the people fair. He is known as ‘Europe’s last helping a number of these churches to YouTube. These videos are being of Belarus were subjected to Soviet dictator’ for his authoritarian style of which are not yet self-supporting widely viewed, with many of them agricultural and economic policies, government; repression and force are with their financial needs, including receiving over 1000 views! leading to collectivization and political used to maintain control and power. evangelism programs and diaconal Friends, please pray for the church repression. Belarus, unlike surrounding Latvia, assistance. Each year we help organize in Belarus! Pray for steadfastness in During World War II, the Belarusians Lithuania and Poland, which are two conferences, one intended to the face of a hostile government; for suffered terribly. As Nazi Germany pro-West, leans toward Russian assist pastors specifically, and the other faithfulness to the Word of God in the steamrolled eastward into Russia, they influence and partnerships. At the directed more generally to church churches; for God’s blessing to rest on destroyed 209 out of 290 Belarusian time of printing, Belarus is approaching members. In both cases, the topics the preaching, teaching, conferences, cities and 85% of the republic’s a tipping point of protests and strikes are selected in cooperation with the literature projects, study centre, industry. The German master plan as the population has made it clear Belarusian church leadership, themes called for the extermination, expulsion that they reject the latest election which are targeted to address specific or enslavement of most or all results which gave Lukashenka a areas that need attention. We’re also Belarusians for the purpose of creating decisive victory. helping a theological student with more living space in the east for study expenses this year. Germans. Deaths are estimated at over In addition to these projects, in 2020 1,000,000, and the pre-war population we helped to set up a ‘Reformed Study was not reached again until 1971. Centre’ in Minsk. This room is stocked Following the war, the final borders of with a good library and provides Belarus were set by Stalin. Today, this pastors and theological students a landlocked country is about the size of well-resourced and quiet place to Reformed Study Centre, Minsk the state of Kansas. come and study, read, write sermons, For the next few decades, Russia etc., away from the bustle of their small YouTube channel; for more pastors continued their cultural hegemony and crowded apartments. The centre to be thrust out into the harvest. A project, also in Belarus. As the USSR also serves as a venue for Bible study spiritual darkness covers this land; may disintegrated in the early 1990’s, a groups from the local Presbyterian God bless the faithful use of the simple national constitution was adopted for church. The pastor of this church, means of grace to bring light and Europe’s last dictator Belarus and it became an independent Yaroslav Viazovsky, is also the director spiritual life to many Belarusians! 4 5 Union. A lot of atheistic literature found what I badly needed. There was published, but it was possible to I discovered many things: Church A Pastor’s Life in find some grains of knowledge in it. history, the history of the Protestant The Bible was banned. I managed to church, the difference between buy the New Testament on the black the and Minsk, Belarus market. The price was sky-high, but in the Baptist Church in Russia. I What follows is an interview with Georgi Viazovski, the end, I got what I was looking for. even received the addresses of the Reformed pastor in Minsk, Belarus, and a long- As I said earlier, I was sure that the underground Baptist Churches in standing partner of Come Over and Help. Forty church was the Russian Orthodox Belarus. I was trained as an atheist years after the collapse of communism and the Church. As a student, I secretly propagandist. USSR, we easily forget what is was like for those attended the church, but there I was There I also learned a most living at that time. Here Georgi shares with us some disappointed, because everything in it interesting thing: I was taught that Georgi Viazovski of his experiences that have shaped his life. was in direct conflict with what Christ it would be no problem to close the taught. One thing I did learn was from Russian Orthodox Church; just lock the Matthew 23 – making and keeping door — that’s it. Why did they not do it? Dear Georgi, thanks for your all.” Everybody laughed at the foolish vows. I vowed to myself to never, They did so in the majority of cases, but willingness to share with our readers believers. I laughed too. Yuri did not ever come to the church again. I was some churches were left just for political some details about your life and see God. How could people be so looking for a sense of the life but there propaganda for the West — there was ministry in Belarus. Perhaps you stupid? No God at all. I saw hypocrisy, everywhere. ‘religious freedom in the USSR’. could begin by telling us something A teen is a teen, loving music and I got married, graduated from But the real problem lay with of your early years. Where did you whatever, although rock was forbidden college, and we joined our family in Protestant churches; most of them grow up, who were your parents, in the USSR. But at that time, we Minsk, Belarus. I needed to consider a were Baptist. I was taught that the and what was it like to grow up had short-wave receivers, as well as career. To make it in life in the Soviet Protestants believed that the church during the time of the ? the Voice of America in Russian, the Union, you needed to get a political was not a building but the communion I was born in the USSR in special BBC and Deutsche Welle News. The education. A Communist party curator of believers, so you could lock the circumstances, a child of my times. reception quality was terrible, as the offered me the opportunity to study building but not the church, because My father was a military pilot, and authorities jammed these stations; all at the Marx-Lenin University. I didn’t it was in the hearts of people. I my birthplace was a small, remote major cities had special stations for really want to listen to lectures on the understood it was a serious problem. military base near the Soviet-Chinese this purpose. If you wanted to listen to advantage of the communist system So I visited church meetings a couple border. It was a small settlement with something you had to constantly twist over the capitalist system, so I asked of times, and all the fragments of my a small airfield with 20 or so aircrafts, a the knob of the receiver. You could also the curator if there was a department knowledge formed into a harmonious small eight-grade school – fewer than reach religious stations. My interests of scientific atheism at the university. system. The puzzle came together, and 80 children – but so many deaths. I often were divided, and very often not The curator was in shock; no I saw Christ. This was during the time studied in the school for six years and in favor of religious programs. But the one wanted to study there. But I of the fall of the USSR. we lost four students; they died from seed was being sown. blood cancer. I was sure that there were only Although there were no old people two churches in the world — Russian in the base, we had regular funerals. Orthodox and Roman Catholic. This One plane crash led to another; about ignorance could have led to disaster 16 people were killed, among them for me, but God’s means of grace are several paratroopers. It seemed that I stronger than circumstances. became used to death. I did not really understand what it was, but each death As a young man, you did not usually brought a question to me — believe in God, although later you what is the purpose of life? became somewhat interested in In my first 13 years, I heard the religion. What led you to Christ? word “God” only once. It happened As I said earlier, an unknown power in the first grade, when our dearest drew me to God. In spite of the fact teacher taught us that there was no that it was impossible to obtain any God, and that only silly people believe knowledge of God in the USSR, some in Him. She told us, “Yuri Gagarin things were available. flew into outer space, looked into the Aggressive atheism was a part of porthole and did not see any God at the ideological system in the Soviet 6 7 Today you are a Reformed pastor I went to the pastor and elders with "Calvinists", etc. So, we left the church to found a in Minsk, Belarus. Please share with a question, “What must I do?” Reformed Baptist Church. us how that came about. The answer stunned me: “Georgi, It was the first Reformed Baptist Church in the The story of the Reformed Church do not sin!” former USSR. And here we met a lot of problems. is amazing in itself. The fact is that But I knew it myself. I understood It all comes down to the Doctrines of Grace. The the repressions of believers in the that something was wrong with me; I doctrine of salvation in all the other churches was USSR reached such a level that only had only my own righteousness, but and is salvation by fear of losing your salvation. the Catholic, Orthodox, Baptist and I had begun preaching already. That Pentecostal churches survived. meant that I was a hypocrite, and You wrote, "Here we met a lot of problems". While looking for the truth, I this fact aggravated my guilt. Our What difficulties did you meet, and how did God visited them all, and finally stopped sermons only said, “Come to Christ see you through those times? at the Baptist church. It really was a and repent”, but for those who already We were quite active; we published a magazine and had 2000 subscribers. We organized small community emerging from the had come, there was no food for their conferences, and they were quite popular. Many catacombs. I sought to study the Bible souls. Christians gladly accepted the Doctrines of Grace. after my conversion, but there were I began looking for literature. We translated and published many books and no opportunities. All the sermons I At that time a Protestant magazine Police interrupt the church introduced the real Spurgeon to fellow believers. service and give fines heard in the Baptist churches were had begun to be published. They However, the attitude of many of the mainline invitation-type sermons, and with the printed sermons of C. H. Spurgeon, church leaders toward us was terrible. To them we Pentecostals everything was built on adapted, as I later understood, to fit were heretics; our books and magazines were set emotions and feelings. with Arminian beliefs. Besides that, on fire, and people were forbidden to communicate It was almost impossible to get any the magazine also began to publish with us. But it was not possible to hide the truth. The knowledge; the Bible was a rare book, aggressive anti-Calvinist materials. Doctrines of Grace filtered down into the churches and there was no spiritual literature at I read an article about Spurgeon’s and people’s hearts from different resources. all. Everyone taught the Bible in the church in London, the Metropolitan Then the religious freedom came to a sudden church as they understood it. In the Tabernacle. I wrote them a letter stop. Our dictator leader wanted to have “the former USSR, every brother in the local asking for help with literature (English church in his back pocket”, and persecutions came. church had the right to preach the was my specialty), and in response I We were fined several times for meeting in our Word of God. received an invitation to study at the building, and in 2006 I was imprisoned for religious Then I came upon a real problem. London Reformed Baptist Seminary. activities. It was the first religious arrest after the fall Having been baptized, I realized Since the seminary was Baptist, the of the USSR. We survived, but we lost our Sunday that I did not become a righteous church did not mind me going, and school, as the authorities declared to all city schools About a month after this man. The Sermon on the Mount my wife insisted that I go for two years. that we were a most dangerous sect. interruption, Pastor Georgi plunged me into horror. Matthew 5:20 It was there that I became 100%, or 5 Today, the situation has changed greatly. was arrested says, “For I say unto you, That except point, Calvinist. your righteousness shall exceed the I returned to my church and The Christian ministry brings both challenges and blessings, reasons for righteousness of the scribes and began to preach on Ephesians, but petition and reasons for praise. Could you share some of these with us? How Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter by this time the church had become can we pray for you? into the kingdom of heaven.” Where entrenched in Arminianism. The elders Reasons for praise are that God is gracious, He rules. He is our strength and is my righteousness exceeding the began to accuse me and my wife of our shield. righteousness of the Pharisees? heresy, and we received the nickname We have a new generation of believers who are open to the Doctrines of Grace. They no longer wander in the darkness; they seek for light. Yes, they have a lot of problems, but such is life. Please pray, “Thy Kingdom come”. We have fewer than 1% of believers in Belarus. For our pastors the situation is very difficult. COVID-19 has added more problems, and they struggle to survive. They also need to be taught serious things. We have almost no educated ministers. But the situation is much better than it was 25 years ago, much better.

Please pray for Georgi and his ministry in Minsk, as well as for Come Over and Help as we support the Reformed church community in Belarus. More details about how we are doing so can be found in the adjacent country snapshot about Belarus. 8 9 abandoned the family, and his mother struggles with alcohol abuse. Poverty Daily Care Centres in Action is also taking a heavy toll on the family By Greg Slingerland and on the house itself. A growing hole in the kitchen ceiling will soon leave the house unlivable and condemned. Boris reflects that “it is difficult to imagine something more destructive for the personality of a child than a home where they feel practically not needed, when parents do not care where a child will sleep, and what they will eat, if anything at all.” In many of these homes, there is one common connection – a vicious cycle of poverty that gets passed along. It is clear that daily care centres provide effective paths to break out of the cycle. The staff and volunteers from local churches that run the centres reach out with love, compassion, and give value to these children. For Living conditions are difficult in many of the homes Boris visits children who have broken and difficult Daily Care Centres play a crucial Boris wrote to us, “I caught myself family situations, the church becomes role in the lives and development of thinking that these were not homes their family and their home. at-risk children in Ukraine. Daily care at all. Leaking roofs, mould on walls, While life is still difficult for many centres offer a safe place for children rotten floors, a nauseating smell of children who visit the daily care centres, to come each day after school, hear decay, often mixed with the smell of they are told about the Good Shepherd a Bible story, share a warm meal, sing tobacco.” who will “gather the lambs in His arms; and pray together, play games, study, Boris visited with nine-year-old He will carry them in HIs bosom”. and enjoy each others company. David and his family. David has a Through your gifts, these centres are Boris Volkov, the director of Light mild form of cerebral palsy due to able to provide a place of refuge for of the Resurrection in Ukraine, said of complications at birth. David’s father today and hope for a better future. I am these daily care centres, “They are free hopeful about the impact of these daily of labels; this is where the thaw begins care centres on the lives of so many in the life of a child, where the agenda children, and I am thankful for your ongoing compassion and care for these ‘how to survive’ is replaced by the Nine-year-old David, Uman, Ukraine agenda ‘who I can become’.” vulnerable children. The children that visit the daily care centres come from families that Three books were recently translated and printed for Russian-speaking struggle with poverty, substance children! These colourful and engaging books by Simonetta Carr focus abuse, and homes with domestic on the lives of Martin Luther, Augustine, and Lady Jane Grey. conflict. Out of these difficult and dangerous situations, the children have found a refuge in the daily care centres. They are nurtured and nourished and are given hope for a better tomorrow through Jesus Christ. Recently, Boris visited some families where the children are a part of the daily care centres programs. Boris and his team brought warm “Moving from one home to another,” meals to the homes they visited 10 11 COVID-19 Response

Peace to you, dear brothers and sisters! "We finished the distribution of food we bought with the funds you sent. We have delivered the food directly to poor church members in Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia. We thank you heartily for spiritual and financial assistance The other part of the distribution was done in Kragujevac by David, Danijel, and that you continue to render to us in Ukraine in this difficult the youth group there. As you know, we had to follow social distancing. We are time for our country. Our country is sinking deeper and deeper very thankful for your precious gift. In spite of keeping social distance, we had the into an economic crisis. We thank our God that now, in this possibility here and in Kragujevac to spend time with people, sharing the Gospel message and encouragement. difficult period, He gives you opportunities to help us. May the While distributing the food, we saw that the needs are greater than we thought. Lord bless you. Members of the churches and volunteers are very willing, ready and enthusiastic During the past three months, I conducted 17 prison to do and continue such actions." meetings in four different prisons. After our evangelistic —Pastor Armus, Serbia meetings, to which all prisoners and guards are invited, we distribute personal hygiene products, tea, and New Testaments. Correctional Institution #91 is about 320 km from Kyiv Supplies in and houses 240 prisoners. These prisoners are all former Ukrainian prisons policemen, judges, and political leaders who were found guilty were in short of corruption. At the request of the prison administration, supply before the I brought toilet cleaner, toothpaste, and toothbrushes. The quarantine began, present government has cut back funding to prisoners, and but as the months prisons struggle to provide hygienic conditions. Our Bible went by the most study in this prison continues to grow, with 15-20 men now basic items became participating. in great demand. Now our country is in quarantine. All places of business, Pastor Mazepa, Pastor Armus handing out food packages to those in need except drugstores and grocery stores, are closed. Authorities from Kyiv, Ukraine, demand people wear masks, but there are no masks available brought in supplies to buy. In the cities, only healthcare workers and shop while sharing the workers may use public transportation. More than 120,000 good news of Ukrainians have returned home from working abroad in Jesus Christ to Western Europe. both prisoners and I hope, despite the quarantine, to be able to continue prison guards. my prison ministry. I will provide masks, latex gloves and disinfectant for my visits, along with Bible books, tea, and cookies. I think it is very important to show them that their EVEN IN THE Lord didn’t forget them and takes care of them. MIDDLE OF THE In these complicated conditions, we need your prayer, SHUTDOWN, support, and your open hand of help. We thank all the supporters of Come Over and Help. DOORS FOR Pastor Mazepa THE GOSPEL ARE OPENING! Pastor Mazepa with the prison warden 12 13 Church Planting in Krakow, Poland By Greg Slingerland Saško Aleksander Saško Nezamutdinov, or The church consists mainly of Sashko, is a church planter in Krakow, young adults, both married and single. Poland. Sashko, along with his wife There are now two children in the a Catholic church with Sashko when he and young adults have a chance to ask Ania, made Krakow their home after congregation. To get the word out was six years old. At the age of twelve, questions and discuss the gospel and hearing about the desperate need about their church, the members are Sashko came to Christ at an evangelism the Christian worldview. for the gospel in Poland. Out of this encouraged to be active on social outreach. After high school, Sasko Please pray for God to send more desire to spread the good news of media, and to open their homes to attended a Bible College and came workers to this needy field. There are Jesus Christ, Sashko and a small neighbours, co-workers, and friends. into contact with a team of Presbyterian many churches and ministries that are team of young adults planted Christ Hospitality, discipleship and friendship missionaries who were planting a needed to be started here. Please the Saviour Presbyterian Church in are the primary means of evangelism. church. Nine years later, this church pray for the publishing ministry, the 2015. Most of these members came Poland is in desperate need of the would become his sending church. translation work, and pray that through from churches where charismatic and gospel, which is why we are excited I asked Sashko why Poland is an these means many people would be prosperity gospel teachings were to partner with Sasko and Christ the important mission field. made alive and would grow. prevalent. Among these new members Saviour Presbyterian Church. Poland Poland is an important mission field there was a desire to be a part of a is predominantly Roman Catholic Sashko would like to “thank Come because it’s currently at a very unique Reformed church. The group began with very few Protestant Churches. Over and Help supporters for investing place and time. The Roman Catholic to hold English club outreaches and Currently, there are more Protestants into God’s work in the most beautiful Church is losing its influence on the started a Heidelberg Catechism per capita in Saudi Arabia than in part of Europe. There are many needs younger generation. This is due to the discussion group. In 2019, the fledgling Poland. Sashko felt called to plant a in Central and Eastern Europe, but scandals within the Roman Catholic church rented a small storefront in church in an urban center, and Krakow, Church which it has been involved in the cultural capital of Poland, which which has over 200,000 students, and serves as both the worship space for is the cultural and academic centre of (which liberal media are very eager Sunday and a Christian library during Poland, seemed to be a good place to and quick to highlight). As people get the week. Sashko has also been busy start. disillusioned with the Catholic Church, with a publishing ministry, and with the Sashko was born in 1988 in Western young people get sceptical about help of Come Over and Help, solid Ukraine in a region that had been part faith. A lot of young people have told Reformed literature has now been of Poland until WWII. He was raised by me that they have no time for the translated into the Polish language. a single mother who started attending Church, but they still believe in God. This creates an opportunity which has never existed in the country before. Sashko has a love for the Polish people, and has a heart for pastoral The rented store front serves as a church and book store ministry. He has a special passion for apologetics and ‘disarming the the spiritual one is certainly the most sceptics’ of Christianity. Sashko and his important. Thank you for helping wife Ania have started a home study ministries like ours to be the beacon group for skeptics and those new to for many Christians and those who are Christianity. A book is chosen to study, on their way to becoming Christians.”

“It is my wish that the kingdom of Christ should flourish everywhere, yet at the present moment Poland deservedly occupies my thoughts with a very special anxiety. For from the time that the light of a purer doctrine began to shine upon it, this happy beginning has at the same time inflamed my desire with the hopes of a better progress.” —John Calvin, 1555 14 15 NON PROFIT ORG US POSTAGE COAH PAID COME OVER AND HELP GRAND RAPIDS MI AID ORGANIZATION INC. PERMIT #1 COAH COME OVER AND HELP

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