2024

The year 2024 was a year of major changes in both personal life and ministry. In the photo above, you can see Tomek and Raphael from our community at the AGH student campus in March 2024. As always, our conversations with students were very good, and we continued going there until April. In May, our firstborn son, Julian Czesław, was born.

I became a father

Thank God, Julian was born healthy, and Ivy also handled the birth well.

The first months of parenthood went by very quickly. I don’t remember much of it. It took us almost three months to adjust to life with a small child.

Before I realized it, autumn had arrived, along with a new semester of student meetings. As a newly minted dad, I took our few-month-old son to student meetings a few times.

Student ministry

In the photo, you can see our first official waffle evening. We watched a movie together and made waffles. Since then, we’ve repeated this evening a few times. This type of meeting allowed our students to invite their friends to a more casual gathering, so they could later come to other meetings where we talked about the good news.

Together with Tomek Chudy, due to significant changes in leadership within our community, we also invited three students and one post-graduate to help lead the ministry. We now have a total of five people, including Tomek and me, who actively participate in caring for the students attending our weekly meetings.

Serving teenagers

A few years ago, a young man named Samuel from the church approached me with a question that surprised me: “Could you be my mentor?” The only thing I knew about mentoring at that time was my own experience from weekly meetings with my mentor. We began meeting weekly, and in total, we’ve been doing this for almost three years now. Samuel joined the international ministry Josiah Venture, known in Poland as “Fala.” There, he served as a volunteer and also as a missionary.

Thanks to our connection, when Fala organized an event in Krakow called “Guard Your Heart”, I was asked to prepare a series of lectures for youth aged 13–19. It was a privilege to share something with the younger generation, and the conversations after the official lectures were very motivating for me. The organizers were also grateful for my help after the conference. This was already the second time I was able to serve at an event organized by Fala in Poland.

Samuel - a great man!

Lectures at the event "Guard your heart"

Big change at church

Autumn brought an earthquake to our community. It’s hard to write about even many months later.

In the photo on the right, you can see the new leadership team of our church, appointed around mid-November. Unfortunately, due to the very difficult family situation of our previous pastor, the earlier team simply fell apart.

But not our community. I must admit that that time was very challenging in many ways. One thought kept echoing in my mind—and I still hear it today—that “Christ is building His church.” I believe that our community, from its founding until today, has been built by Him. That is why it continues to exist and grow.

Despite the storm that passed through our community, it seems that we are doing well.

From the left: Tomek, Marzena, me and Chris

End of the year family visit

At the end of November, Ivy, Julian, and I went to visit her family in the United States. It was truly a joyful time, but also a time of rest after a rather turbulent and intense period of ministry work. We visited her family in the north, in my wife’s hometown, and spent Christmas in the state of Virginia.

In the photo, you can see our closest family on Ivy’s side: her parents, sisters and brothers with their spouses, and the youngest generation.

A live Christmas nativity at the Every Nation church in Sterling.

We celebrated our third wedding anniversary together with family.

A visit to the aviation museum.

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