Dear Friends,
Warm greetings from green Poland!
After the recent rains, all the trees have turned a beautiful fresh green… and now green has become my favorite color!
A great deal is happening in our DeoLink ministry. We truly sense a “spring acceleration” — a number of projects are entering their harvesting stage. Many activities that have been prepared over a long period are now bursting forth, just as spring itself has! Let me give you a brief overview:
- Oliwer’s trip to London for The Chosen organizational meeting and the Alpha Conference — very inspiring indeed!
- Filip and Szczepan’s trip to the Netherlands for the 153 Collective strategic meeting — again, we saw great progress!
- 3 day training in Wisla with the team from Explore God Global (former Global Media Outreach).
- The trip of Bogusia, Norbert, Adam, Rhonda and myself to Guildford, England, for the Grow Your Life e-coach conference — a wonderful time of fellowship and spiritual encouragement, with around 60 people attending.
Participants of our Guildford conference, e-coaches from Grow Your Life
Closing dinner for international attendees
Team from ExploreGod (former Global Media Outreach) visiting our office, discussing partnership and using our software
- Attending in the Czech Republic the event celebrating the 20th anniversary of the European work of the International Leadership Institute — a wonderful reunion!
- Participation in several excellent conferences in Poland: Crown Financial in Warsaw, European Great Commission Collaboration in Krakow (with Adam Walach), also “Solving the World’s Greatest Problems,”
Speakers at the Crown Financial Conference in Warszawa, incl. Chuck Bentley and Handre De Jongh from USA
Participants of the EGCC Summit in Krakow
Panel discussion at the EGCC Summit in Krakow
During EGCC Summit – we had a banquet at the famous Salt Mine of Wieliczka, hundreds of meters below ground, and excellent string quartet
- 8 people from our polish Outback team together with Mack Ogren (Outback US) went to Lithuania, to help initiate their first Outback
- 9 people from our DeoLink team attended European Leadership Forum here in Wisła,
The ELF conference – 860 European leaders in Wisla
Our staff at ELF exhibition stand of DeoLink
Many informal meetings at ELF
- Visits from friends from AdBarron Trust, Focus on the Family, Christianity Explored and several other partners,
The Chosen Poland stand at the big Catholic gathering
The first Outback Lithuania group!
With Friends at Focus on the Family
Vision day with our friends and donors sharing testimonies and plans for the ministry
DeoLink started with music, and we’re still involved in some of that. We’ve had a premiere of the newest album from one of our artists.
- Our own fundraising event in Wisła,
- And, of course, all the regular ongoing work! Connecting with some 6 thousand people by our coaches in a regular manner.
Our technology team has completed two of our newest tools:
- Interactive Map SignalGlobe — which can be used also by other organizations with global reach as a white-label solution;
- Compendi — a simple AI-based search solution for churches, designed to open access to church’s video sermons and archives.
Our Outback season is now in full swing. It began in Lithuania, and now we will run four weekends during the spring season, followed by the fall round beginning at the end of August.
We deeply enjoy having guests with us — both our partners and, hopefully, future partners. Especially when the weather is beautiful, spending time together becomes a real encouragement and helps us prayerfully work through challenges.
We also recently held our Board meeting — a great blessing as always.
In the middle of all this activity, we will also take some vacation time — an opportunity to rest, reflect, pray, and seek God’s guidance for the months ahead.
Thank you, Friends, for standing with us!
What is our biggest challenge at the moment? Quite simply — having sufficient funding to run operations in the best possible way. Even though we operate at a fraction of US costs, the needs are still substantial. Therefore, we pray both for new contracts and for donors who are serious about making a difference in the world by helping make new disciples of Jesus Christ.
Thank you again, Kornelia, for your prayers and all your support. We truly treasure your friendship.
With warm greetings and gratitude!
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PRAYER PRAISE & REQUESTS
April answered prayers:
Progress on prayer requests:
- “Surviving” a very busy season of preparations and activities;
- New countries expressing interest in starting JH Outback weekends;
- A very good JH Outback weekend in Lithuania;
- Completion of the Compendi software package for churches;
- Some wonderful new connections with remarkable people.
Friends, please pray
June prayer requests:
- A wonderful spiritual outcome from the Polish spring JH Outback weekends;
- New e-coaches for the growing ministry;
- That the new contacts we have started in recent weeks will grow into lasting partnerships;
- Funding that would enable us to promote our work more effectively and help many more people encounter the message of the Bible;
- Good summer rest for our staff and volunteers, so that we may all be refreshed for the next season ahead.
Thank you so much for standing with us in prayer. We are deeply grateful.
Current Numbers
April in numbers:
From SzukajacBoga.pl (PL), GrowYourLife.net (EN), DrugiKrok.pl (PL), Nadiya.in.ua (UA)
3,063
people starting their journey to Jesus
722
people growing in their faith
2,750
conversations with E-coaches
Feedback from the participants of “For the Imperfect. A The Chosen Thematic Course” course on the Szukajac Boga platform:
“I’m in a situation where I struggle with addiction. I believe that Jesus strengthens me every day, giving me the strength and willingness to keep fighting. Despite setbacks, I believe that nothing can separate us from His love. Thank you for this wonderful course.”
“Beautifully described — it touches the heart, and the tears come to my eyes on their own. I see myself in it and realize how many mistakes I’ve made in life. I’m ashamed of what I’ve done and ask for forgiveness. This course gives hope and strengthens faith. Thank you.”
“This course has done me a lot of good. It was like an encounter with a different God — a God who is constantly waiting for me, a God who forgives everything when the heart is truly repentant, a God who gives peace, joy, and hope. It gave me so much to think about and reflect on. Thank you.”
“The message from the course helped me rise above self-condemnation. I often block myself from Jesus by blaming myself. I set very high standards for myself, wanting to persevere without sin, and I burden myself with that weight without including Jesus in it all. It’s as if I’m doing it for Him, but without Him. That simply makes no sense. I am bound to fall. This course helped me get back up after that fall.”
