DEPARTMENT OF MISSIONS ^ ''P«O.Box 229

Bel Air, Maryland January, 196^^.

Beloved Friends in Christ:

••HITHERTO HATH THE LORD HELPED US" 1 Sam. 7:12

Truly we can say these words with great gratitude and joy* The year 1963 was a yearof i?iai^ achievements and victories for the Lord# It was a very busy year and novj when weentered into the New Year of 1964 we put our trust in the Lord and want to do even morethan we were doing in 1963*

We started the New Year with the customary greeting "Happy New Year". This greetinghas a great meaning to us, it means "very busy and succesfUl New Year,"Every day in rr^ life is happy when it isabusy day for the Lord and when victory is wonthrough the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

In the past year together with you as partners in Christ's Kingdom, we were able toachieve ma^ victories and the Ciospel of Christ was preached every day by differentmeans. C^isti^ living, radio messages, teaching, pai^eaching, writing letters, publishing,translating, visiting, sending relief and Bibles, etc. Now we want to have a happy 1964year and want to labor for Him.

This time we would lilce to share with you a few letters which will present to you apicture of our ministiy.

ABOUT BIBLES and CHRISTIAN LITERATURE

"At first I would like to thank you very heartily for that great gii^, the Bible,which I received. I am very thankful to you, dear minister, and I say in the old - fashioned Polish i>7ay: "God repay youo" Now I have something to read and this >ray I amgetting more readers and listeners of the radio broadcast. I would like to ask you tosend me more literature, the Bible and the New Testament.Then I would like to get some information which is not quite clear to me and this is:1 am a Roman Catholic. The priests are teaching us thateverybody who wants to stay in holly^ace, must only take part in the Mass and a frequent confession and the Holy Communion..'men I hear the radio broadcast and read some of the articles, I don»t see anything aboutconfessj.m^mss etc. The Roman_Cath. priests don't mention about the immersion-eith^utJecause of this I ask you to clear up this problem because I would lilce very much to be

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POLISH MAGAZINE

"^idepost" is filling the gap richOy, it is very popular, it is passedf house. We benefit from it very much - from the recitations, fl-om thewonderful songs» The songs are played ty our orchestra. I would like very much to get theother copies of the "Guidepost" when it is possible". W.Ch.

RADIO MONTE CARLO

"I am vjTit^g a few words and I am informing you that I am listenin^^our religiousbroadcast at 6 P.M. every Monday. The reception is good and I am glad that I am able tohear about our Saviour on the radio-waves. I have a great request: - please send meChristian literature and your religious magazine "The Gukiepost". A.R.

"Already for a longer period of time I am listening to the broadcast from ^lonte Carloat 6,p.m. I am listening to your program vjith great interest. I would like to get yourliterature and I would like to ask you to send me the Bible. If it is possible in a biggerform and more visible print, because I don't see well in spite of wearing glasses". H.P.

LIFE OF CHRIST VISUALIZED

"I received your religious magazine "The Life of Christ" book 3. I like very much thisbeautiful book with the illustrations and the text from the Bible. It can be used in spreading the Glad Tidings to those who like to hear it. This book could substitute many religious filjis and could be read at home and used by the families and the Lord xd.ll be glorified. I only borrowed that book Nro3 and I would like to ask you to send the same to me.I think you have also other numbers like Nr. 1 and 2. I wonder whether I could get some moreof these books for other brethren which live in other cities"-. J.W

"With great ^terest we looked through the set of books with the colorful pictures, rep-resent^g the Life of Jesus Christ /books 1,2 &3/ with the Polish inscriptions made "by you.e \70vld like to ask you kindly, whether there are some possibilities to send us* X500 sets

of the above books for use of five Protestant churches in Poland".

MATEKIAL SDPfC3RT and MEDIGIHE

"Dear Brother and Sister, we inform you that we received the parcels for which we arevery thankful. We can't describe all things which were in the parcel, there were so manybut we think we got everything. Many things weri good for nei^om babies, others will receive also. Everybody says - thank you. Thank y(j>u very much for the medicine which restored the health of ny husband. As for now everything is an right.Dear Sister, in Cz. S. is one brother in Christy who live® only with a son^and he is verypoor. He has sick leg and can't do hard work. Si.ster, if you could perhaps send him someclothes, even working clothes and a few shirts«so grateful."

I gave him a shirt and trousers auid he wasZ.T.

PQKCSH sTmnrs

"It was our privilege at our last Missionarywith us to brijag word of their work, needs and plans fol? the future for their home^land"Poland.. We appreciated them veiy much and as a token of that appreciation we are eclosinga check ^15•- to help with theii education."

SLAVIC CHURQ^ OF CHRIST IN BALHtlQRE

••We can truly say that the 19^3 year has been a blessed one, especially during theThanksgiving and Christmas time. We had special meeting where our orchestra and choir tookan active part and we were favored with poems bjy our young people.The congregation is prevailing in the spirit of

found itself. Greetings to all of you."

"I have the honor to inform you that all ourblessings from Bro. Bajko labor, who together w4

meeting to have G.Bajenski and K.Jakoniuk

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unity and zeal in the labor for Christ."A.K.

ECHOS FROM TRIP TO POLAND

"With Lord's help in our church since your arrivalurevailes a harmoEy long longed for.Sept. 22,63 we had a baptismal service combined with a Thanksgiving service. Three soulssurrendered into the service of our Lord. Our jcy was overhelaiing. That young brother whomyou mentioned in the letter, was baptized. He is veiy active now in the young people circle.He has a lovely voice and sings willingly in th^ choir. Ella, Mirka's girlfrierid. was bapbit-'zed together with her. She is very nice girl. To our church Lord added three"'youngrso^s#Weall are very thankful to our Lord. |Your arrival and service were necessaiy in such ia critical moment in which our church

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Churches of Christ experienced a greatth his wife and children T^sited our coun

try. We had great and blessed services and we are rejoycing that through Bro. Bajko's labor we witnessed many conversions. We must admitGod and he is an immutable son of the Church of'and thankfulness".

that Bro. Bajko is the faithful servant ofChrist, and our hearts are filled^jWLtKojoy

M.M.

"We are glad that God made it possible to seei each other in a good health. We have onlymemories now but we remember your messages, Bromer, and songs in the English language.We could not understand the words of songs but w|e could read the melody as j^om the openbook. Thank you very much that you came to see us and for all those nice words Tdiich werespoken in that ^ort time." Z.Sz.

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Dear Friends, it was just a few quotations from many letters, and we trust you enjoy toread them and to see the great need and opportumty to reach people for Christ.You were faithful contributors in 19^3 and we bejLieve that by seeing great need you willpray about us and help us financially to carry Lbrd's work on.

We thank God for your faithfulness and such wondsrful friends like you and we foryour sacrificial giving. Good Lord provided everything in the most wonderful way ih the

^past^and we believe that this year He will provSjde also though you.

In addition to the support which we receive regularly from churches, groups and individuals, we need some additional siippdrt due to some cancelations and also increaced ministry in 196'f.

1. Toward ny living link and housing $ 150#W per month.2. We are preparing next 60 p>arcels of used clothing to Poland and we need

^ 600.00 for shipment. Each pound costs 55 cents.3. Still deeded $ 6O.OO per month toward tl^ living link fund of A. Korenczuk.'f. $ 1000.00 for the education fund of K.Jakoniuk and G.Bajenski^Polish students*

Please make all checks payable to the DEPAR^pENT OF MISSIONS;May Lord bless you richly when you will read this reS>ort and consider your support ofour ministry.

Yours in His M^istry,

DEPARTMENT OF MISSIONS . 'Eastern Christian College

P.O, Box 229Bel AItc, Mi. Paul Bajko, director

"Dear Friends in Chriffb:

In a few days the school year 19^3/64 at E®C.C. will be over and officially we anouncethat it is the time of vacation, but not for us because aUreacJy Jane 13> 1 leave formaiiy camps as a missionajiy speaker among the youth*It will be also the time when I will be preparing more radio messages and articles foe*our Polish magazine and write hundreds of letters, s^d more Bibles and other Christianliterature*We planed to have a couple of weeks of vacation in August but it is gone already becausewe accepted an invitation for 3 weeks of youth camp in California.

The last three months were very busy, but they were months of great joy, esjperience andvictories.First of all in March at a Pre-easter Revival meeting in Slavic Church of Christ in Baltimore our two children Yvonne and George responded to the Gospel invitation and it wasthe greatest joy and privilege for me to baptiae them into Christ-Second - that ovx ministry through radio, publication and sending of Bibles brought wonderful results and here I would like to quote to you some letters!"Dear Bro. Bajko.I would like to share i-Jith you the joy I experienced during one of the evening services,at our church. As I mentioned before, tIEr. K. visited me last week- He came to us q\aitesuddenly ard I asked him to stay until Sunday in ord^ to be present at our services. •«•When I preached that day I spoke plainly about the open doors of God*s mer^ and aboutGod being always ready to save the lost and perishing souls. And then I prayed that Go^dwoxild call those not saved. It was quiet in the church and then we could hear the voiceof our friend K., who in an ardent prayer asked God to be merciful unto him. It was hisfirst open prayer and confession. % heart was filled with joy for the answered prayersand that your ministry, Bro. and Sister Bajko, through the Radio Monte Carlo is not invain.

The tears of were not only in ny ^es but in mar^ others. After the service I invi--ted-l*ir»—£*-to ny place «nd ?ifter the short conversatica'-" toldruie that he would like-to be baptized. He said that he believes that his wife his married daughter will goin his steps."

"I would like to inform you that the medicine which you sent I received, for which Iexpress my warmest thanks. I am very grateful to you for what you have done for me. Maythe merciful God repay you abundantly."

"In such way 1 would like to thank you very much for your lovely and kind broadcast -"May God reward you" -At the same time please send me some Christian lite2:*ature, Bible and the New Testam^t."

"I am kindly applying to you for an information regarding the books "The life of Christ"in pictures, l-fy- request is based upon a fact that I am a student at the Theological Academy in Warsaw and. I would like to have thorse books which will be a great help to me inteaching religion."

"While being in Poland few times I received your magazine "The Ouidepost". Lately, somehow again I got few numbers of this wonderful Christian publication and that's 't'jhy I decided to write to you. Here in Belgium we are short of Polish Christian literature. I dare to ask you to send me few copies of youtpublication for ^irtiich I would be veiy th^ikful*I like this magazine veiy irruch because of sijnple and good articles. The recitatiohs and ^songs are very useful too. If it is possible, please send me few of your old magazines.Closing, I wish you God's abundant blessings and spiritual socces in your lovely but hardwork."

Third - I was able to visit many churches and to speak during the morning and evening services and at the Rallies.

Fourth - we were able to maintain the close fellowship t-n.th all our supporters throughpersonal letters or personal appearance in the churches.Thanks to all of you we are abl# to prolong our ministry. We trust that durir^ the summermonths you will pray for us and assist us in our ministry with your contributions l-ika youdid it in the past.

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Fifth - Our Polish st\idents George Bajenski aiaaLincoln Christian College with the B.A. degre^their own county to preach the Gospel of Chri

Kostek Jakonitik are graduating from theand in the near future -wilj- retoam toand win manor souls for Christ.

May good Lord abide with you always.

Sixth - We are very happy to anounce that Sist^er.Mary Gross, from the First ChristianChurch, Grayville, Illinois, ecxpressed her willingness to represent the Department ofMissions before the Churches in Southern Illinlois» We are grateful for this decision andif you would like to know more about our minisjbry, please write to Sister Gross and invite her to speak to your group and.to show slMes.

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Our new home has a large, full basement. One part was finished as a "recreation room",but this name does not fit here eacactly - it it rather a fellowship room, because it is•used not only by the children to play in rainy [days, but has served many purposes, like:church-feHowship- suppers, girls dormitory dujing the "High- School Day at the Collegeetc. The largest part of our basement Paul calls "Dela's laboratory" - here we work whenpacking parcels with used clothing for Poland©In February over 60 parcels were sent and now we are receiving the thank-you lettersfor them. I woxQd like to share vjith you some of them:"•••Thank you so much for the parcel.•• I did not have hope anymore, I did not knovr,where help could come from... You don't know me, we have never seen each other - it isonly the blood of Jesus that unites us into one family• When I received the parcel Iwept from joy. How our God and Jesus Christ reamembei;^ His ownlDear sister, my life was not easy. % husband left me in 19^5 with five small children.

life was a nighttnaret ♦... Now one son lives jd.th me, who is toitiomlly upset. I amreceiving a small rent of ^160 zloty per month /^uals ^ 6.00, an average income is1500 zloty and people can not manage by it/, bu,'Thank you again and thanks to all who contribut

"I don't know even how to thank you for theto wear... i.read the Bible, I read it also tobroadcast. •• • Could you send us your picture, iliiat we could get to know you at least fromthe picture?..-• Thank you to all good people, wilio don't know us, but send us their clothes«

somehow we are living with God*s help...to this package."

5el. I am so happy, now we have somethingthe children and we listen to your radio-

This wites a woman who never attended any Christian services and when invited, always rejected them. After we got in contact with her, ^ent her a Bible and some Christian literature, she changed very much. A Christian neighbour wrote us about that and ask us to praymore for this family. Now she.reads the Bible and attehds, I'lhen possible, the services. To 'bad there is no Christian Ch-urch in the community where she lives and they conduct onlysometimes smal 1. home-services. |We had some wonderful e:q)eriences with several non-Christian families, to whom we send usedclothes, -jdio seeing Christian love in deeds and ijiot only in words, staa^ted reading the Bible, attend services and some expressed the wish to be baptized. This makes us so happy andwe want to share the joy with you, because it is only through you that it is possible forus to continue this kijnd of a ministry also*

So f^ the year of 196'l' has been a good ye^,. We have experienced many blessings at theSlavic Church of Christ. In February we stairted a r^io ministry through one of the localstation^,J3any people do listen and we have—mada-several contacts with-them.-We-are v^eygrateful that the Lord is blessing this special Work.Eveiy month we have had special programs once a month when tl;e yoimg people took activepart in it. Before Easter we held special youth revival meetings, Bro. F. Masteller wasan evangelist, and 5 young people respond^ to tne Gospel invitation and were baptized.In April I went on tour with the Eastern College |Choir. We sung 11 ccmcerts in one weektime and the name of the Lord was praised. I had the opporttinity to speak at seveial places and enjoy the Christian felloi^ship.We feel that this is an exceptional time to bring people to Christ through the preachingof the Gospel on the radio. We need your prayers jand support and thank you veiy much foryour wonderful gifts and contributions for the work here in Baltimore.

Tours in Christ,lAdam J. and Linda L. Korenczuk

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