A young man began attending our church. He is studying law at the University of Warsaw. He had already made a profession of faith and asked to be baptized. Since it was becoming wintertime and cold outside, we didn’t want to go to the lake to baptize. So eventually, we baptized him at the church in a bathtub we have in the bathroom in the church. He was excited to follow the Lord immediately.

We had a brother from Belarus come to Warsaw. His family sings together and plays instruments. He preached three times in our church. He informed our church about witnessing publicly, which is forbidden in his Communist country. It is restricted to evangelize and to give out literature. It helped remind our people not to take for granted the freedoms we enjoy.

For several weeks in the months of January and February, we had extremely cold temperatures, 1º Fahrenheit; for us, it was -16º Celsius.
I continue to do my regimen of getting the Gospel out. From time to time, there is a person who will come along with me for our evangelizing. I’m looking forward to having some regular help when the two other missionaries come to serve in Poland. I will be able to do some street preaching additionally; I need another person to protect my speaker, because I’ve had an occasion of someone trying to damage it when I was preaching.

Many people come up to me and thank me for what I am doing. They are happy to see me witnessing and giving out the Gospel. They are believers themselves. They say I am a blessing to them. A woman came up to me on the street and thanked me for what I was doing. She was a good Baptist woman. Later the same day, another woman came up to me and thanked me.

In the month of February, we celebrated Jolie’s birthday at church. It was her second birthday since her stroke. We are grateful that God has allowed her to be with us. All of our people are encouraged by her life. She is still in recovery and working on her therapy by swimming and walking.

We have a twenty-year-old young man in our church who desires to serve the Lord. He even said he would like to move to the city right near where we live and help us start a church. Right now, he is taking some courses in mechanics so he can have a certificate showing he has a profession. Pray that he will keep his fire burning and continue to serve the Lord while he’s studying. His family lives 3½ hours from Warsaw. He is trying to establish himself where we have our church in Warsaw, and he wants to study in the city near his family, so he will go back and forth from Warsaw to his family two weekends a month. There is an American soldier in the city where he will be studying, and there are more people who could join them in helping to establish a church. There is a missionary in Germany who has two men willing to go there and teach the Bible. Please pray about this new potential.

In April, we plan to have a new missionary arrive, Gary Zdarski. We are also planning to have other visitors. Bro. Jim Belisle from our mission board is planning to visit. A man by the name of Marcin and his wife are moving here from Australia. He is Polish, and his wife is Filipino. They will be attending our church for a while. A brother from our church in America, Rob Landham, also plans to visit. A faithful brother in our church went home to Africa to get his paperwork for his visa done. Bro. Tresor will plan to come back in April to serve with us. Please pray that our church will grow and be strengthened through all of these struggles and growths.

More than conquerors,

Paul Sock