Andrzej Gorski
Evangelical Poland is the most significant interdenominational evangelical collaboration movement in Poland. We focus on collaboration in evangelism, church planting, leadership development, mercy and justice ministries, youth ministries, and others. I am also raising support to fund the first Christian Training Center in NW Poland.
I decided to follow Christ in 1998 in Boston, Massachusetts. I was there on a work and travel program and met a pastor while playing basketball. He invited me to some Bible studies, and it took around ten meetings to understand that I needed to give my life to Christ completely.
One of the most defining influences in my Christian walk is the pastor and friend from Boston who led me to Christ. Later, when I joined a Baptist church in Poznan, Poland, I started to grow and understand more about Christ’s word and love. Additionally, a few years ago we started a Bible group as follow up after our outreach activities. This has been defining as God has provided great leaders for us through this ministry and we all have grown tremendously in the last several years.
For years, there were no leadership conferences for Christian organisations in Poland. I have been asking questions about ministry for many years: how should I run the ministry? What should I do, who should I talk to, and how should I talk to people who work and are paid by the ministry but are not believers? The Forum is a precious opportunity for me to learn the answers to these questions and to be better equipped as a Christian leader. As a result of my team’s participation in ELF, we started an annual leadership forum called Konferencja Ewangelicznej Polski, with 35+ speakers and 300 participants, and we are now working toward opening the first Christian Training Center. We are hoping to bring over 50 leaders to the 2024 ELF.
Poland is a 90% Catholic country. Evangelicals are 0.2% of the population. God has given our ministry an unbelievable tool for the Gospel. There are very few other evangelical ministries in our country that reach so many people! Poland needs Christ and, by investing in our ministry, you are investing in the mission of bringing Christ to the lives of the people of Poland.