What is your ministry?
Bread of Life's mission is to share God's love by rescuing people whose functioning in society is strongly threatened and those on the margins of society. Bread of Life is a non-profit Christian organisation based in Poznań, Poland, with its primary goal to serve the poor, sick, homeless, and needy. For 12 years, the Foundation has operated a treatment and rehabilitation center for homeless people. Poland is 0.2% evangelical, with almost 90% of the counties void of an evangelical church. At Ewangeliczna Polska, we respond by helping to catalyze collaborative efforts among pastors, churches, and various ministry organisations for Kingdom impact.
When did you trust Christ?
In 1986, I was a teenager in a Christian family. I regularly went to church and I was convinced that living a Christian life was much better than living for anything else. I was ready to adopt the Christian life for myself; however, somehow it didn’t work! Then on March 10, 1986, in the morning, I heard about God’s invitation, which sounded attractive again. I wanted to believe and apply it to my own life as a teenager, but the very same day I ended up in a family situation in which I was far from being patient or kind. I was proud, I dishonored others, self-seeking, and very easily angered. I realized how much my life was a mess and how much I needed a Savior! I asked Him to forgive my sins, and to come with His love, and to take over control!
What have been the defining moments of your Christian walk?
I met a wonderful girl in 1994 through involvement in an international student ministry. I asked God to give me wisdom, and almost one year later, we married. Since 2009, Maja and I have been involved in student ministry. For eight years, I served on the national board of IFES-Poland InterVarsity, where I learned valuable lessons in humility. In 2017, Bread of Life faced the need for a new director. It was clear that God was asking me to serve! So, by January 2018, I was voted the new Chairman of Bread of Life in Poland—a significant challenge but also a leap of faith.
What do you hope to gain from participating?
During the 2022 ELF, I attended a workshop with Scott Poling. His sensitive approach to the specific burden leaders often tend to carry struck me. Especially having more and more contact with other leaders, I would love to get more understanding of how to be an encouragement and blessing for those struggling, including myself.
What is your leadership role or what were your past leadership roles?
I was a regional student leader at IFES-Poland-InterVarsity and a member of their national board. Before becoming the President, I was a member of the council for Fundacja "Bread of Life.”
Why should someone invest in your ministry?
I have a strong passion that Polish people be encouraged, mobilised, and directed to humanitarian work following Matthew 25:35-36. I dream that all evangelical humanitarian organisations join together to make the best use of this army of mobilised people to reach the maximum number of the poor, sick, homeless, and socially excluded with the hope that God gives us.
