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M ABROAD SERVE MASTERFaithfully since 195^.

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At the age of 16 Paul was baptized into Christ, while he was a student at the StateHighschool. He was active in the Christian work, he played in the church band, workedamong young people and took part in missionary journeys which were performed by theband •

During the Second World War, Paul suffered hardship. Living two years under RussianOccupation and later under German occupation, finally he was deported to Germany, andlocated in a labor camp. While at the labor camp he worked in a factory 12 hrs« aday for a very little food. While working there, he saw the desperate condition ofyoung people from Poland and Russia, who were without Christ. This was when Paul decided to devote his life to the ministry of Christ.Paul survived the war by a miracle of God and after the war found refuge in a DisplacedPersons Camp, Finding there people without a country and without hope, he devotedhimself to volunteer Christian work.iVhile in the Displaced Persons Camp, Paul entered the Slavic Evangelical-Raptist Seminary from which he graduated in 19^7. In 1950, while looking for fellowship withChurches of Christ in America, he met Earl Stuckenbruck, from the European Evangelistic Society of the Churches of Christ and with the recomendation of Bro. Stuckenbruck

loci enrolled at the Eastern Christian Institute in December in1950. In E. C. I., under leadership of Bro. M. S. Kitchen, Paul found warm Christianfellowship and wonderful spirit. Paul graduated from the Institute in 1952, in Juneand the same day he was ordained into the ministry.During the summer vacation in 1951 Paul went to Canada and married the former AdelaBurghardt to whom he was engaged in Germany in the camp, and now they have threechildred: Yvonne, born in 1952, George born in 195^» and Andrew born in 1957.Dela is a great help in his ministry. They both speak and write several languages.In 1952, Paul entered Liberal Arts College, Milligan College, Tenn. and in 1953 hegraduated with an A. B. degree.In May, 1956, Paul became a naturalized citizen of the U. S. A., and in January I958Dela became a citizen of the U. S, A. They both are thankful to the Lord for theprivilege of becoming American citizens.In 195^, Paul was called by the Eastern Christian Institute to work in the Departmentof Missions and here is the program of their ministry;

1. Paul and Dela teach at Eastern Christian College.2. Both are engaged in publication work: Dela has translated over 200 songs into

Polish language and a beautiful song book has been published. Paul translatedLife of Christ visualized into Polish and Russian languages and published it.They publish a Polish Magazine monthly and prepare other Christian literature.

3« They send Bibles and New Testaments to Poland and Russia.k. They send relief and medicine to needy Christian families in Poland5* They raise support for faithful ministers in Poland and maintain a close contact

with the Churches of Christ in Poland.6. Paul started the work among the Slavic people in Baltimore and is responsible

for bringing Bro. A. Korenczuk as minister to that church and raises supportfor Bro. Korenczuk.

7« They brought two students from Poland and train them to be ministers of the Gospelin Poland.

8, They prepare Radio programs in Polish language which are transmitted through RadioLuxembourg every Lord's Day.

9. They are engaged in extensive correspondence in Polish, Russian, German and Englishlanguages.

LO, Paul teaches and speaks the whole summer in different Christian Service Camps.LI. He is called to speak at many missionary Rallies, Churches and Colleges.L2. In i960 Paul and Dela visited Poland with the Gospel of Christ.

All this work is done for the glory of God and building of His wonderful Kingdom, andthis work is supported by free will offering. They need your financial assistance.

DEPiUElTMENT OF MSSIONS

Easteom Christian CollegeBel Air, Md. Paul Bajko, Dir.

P*0* Box 229January, 1962. ' Bel Air, M.

Dear Friends in Christ:

A long time ago I sho\ald have given you my report af activities in the Lord's Vineyard but I was so bu^ that there was no time to sit down and write to you*Since n^r last report maxsy thousands of miles have been traveled in the service forthe Lord.

1. I visited with the Lord's message at least 1*0 chiirches, three colleges, heldtwo missionary revival meetings and spoke at 5 missionary Rallies.

2..I tought a regular class at Eastern Christian College.3* Regular support and money for Bibles, New Testament and medicine were forwar

ded to Poland.

Regularly every month was published our Polish magazine which brings blessingsto many souls.

5* 1-iany parcels of used clothing were shipped to Poland and htindreds of letterswere written.

6. The building in Baltimore for the Slavic Church of Christ was purchased andmany hours were spent there in remodeling and repairs.

7. Preached several times and visited people in Baltimore.8. December 10th in cooperation with the Gospel Broadcast Mission, Bro. and Sister

W. Coble, founders, we started radio programs in Polish language through RadioLuxembourg. Preparation of these programs takes lots of time, but we receivedalready letters from Poland and people esspress their joy because now they canhear for the first time the Gospel of Christ preached through radio. They aresorry that the program lasts only 15 rain, and only once a week.

9. In Baltajnore we hadanice Christmas program.

Ml this work requires time and funds. We work day and night and thank God thatHe gives us strenght to do it, but many times we are short with money.Many Friends sent us used clothing to be send to Po3.and and people over thereap^ciat^ijm3Tr_rmjch^but S45h.j§hipmjeiit_jDfJl^^Q_parceJ^ costs_arounddol eveiy time. Now we prepare another 20 parcels but we can npt send them xmlesswe will have 200.00 dol. for the shipm^t.Further we pay in the studio 8.00 dol* per program to make tape because we do nothave our own tape recorder with the speed I5. We need one badly and we wiUL behappy if some of our friends will make it as a project.Also we need funds for the building in Baltimore to pay mortgage, still we are short100.00 per month in living link to Adam Korenczuk, minister of Slavic Church.Second semester will start Jan. 29> and we need mon^ for education of Polish students.

We thank for our regular and other contributors, because of you we are able to dothe work. We see great interest for our work in our brotherhood and we appreciateit very much, but the day are evil and the time is short, so we want to redeem every opportunity in preaching, so please help us.

May the good Lord bless you richly. Yours in His ministry.

Since I was a young girl I always id-shed to marry a man -with whom I could sharenot only the family life of leisure, but also share with him his interests, hislikes, his work... This God had granted to me in a most wonderful wayt

In Paiil's vast and various field of work I am happy to help him in many ways; butthis alone is not so important. The fact, that makes me most happy and humbly thankful is that the work that I can share with iqy husband is for the glory of God.

favorite work is in the field of literature: writing articles, poems, gatheringand correcting material for our Polish magazine "The Guidepost" which we publish bymonthly, typing the first copy of it.Just as much as I lilce to write I like to sing /though I can't do it as good/ andwork with songs. Wis published already one hymnbook, but I am always hunting fornice new songs and translate them into Polish. In every issue of our magazine wejarint a new song.

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Another job, which Paul gave over to me is i3>reparing parcels with used clothing to Poland. This is quite a job because the ages i^ind sizes of the people /which we often donot know personal!l;jr/ must be considered. So it is not just putting the clothes in theboxes, but puting the right things, x-jhich requires hours of work in selecting and classifying. But this work is most enco\iraging l^cause we are receiving the most wonderfulletters in replay to X3ur parcels. At this oc^casion I would like to thank all churches,groups and individuals, who have contributed to this cause. I am sorry that we can'tsend you all the thank you letters that we aire receiving, but I want to assure every oneof you that you are most tenderly remembered, in prayers by many, mariy thankful people inPoland, who thanks to you have more and bettjer clothes tcjwear, have warmer homes in winter /by selling the things and buyinjfcoal/, isome sick and tired could afford a short rest.I often noticed how God is leading us in thijs work also by helping us to send the rightthings to the right persons. Even some souls -^jere won to Christ because of a materialhelp. Often we get remarks like this; did you \maw n^r size? The coat, /or the shoes/just fit rightl" Or: "I i^as so worried, ir^y bwear to school, and you sent us just w^t we

3y did not have a pair of decent pants toneeded most."

1'^ latest work is helping Paul in preparing the radio-programs, which we transmit throughradio Luxembourg. I type the sermons and also help in preparing the musical part of theprogram.

In addition to that I work with the college,ches: the American, where I teach Sunday - S

teaching German language and with two chur-chool and our Slavic Church in Baltimore.

We entertain very often m£uiy ffjiends and visitors of the college and the church andoften we have meetings and gatherings at ourI think that I should also mention our veryas the time permits.I think that every sincere Christian wants t

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big co3?respondence, in xfhich I also help

5 i-rork for his Lord and I'fe.ster, but not manyhave the joy and p:pivilege to work ^or Him *F:i\ill time" as the minister and his familycan do and this makes me most happy and t|iaiii3cful2

Yours in His love.

With the help of the Lord we are continuing to labor among the Slavic people here inBaltimore. On November 23, we were very pri^ledged and happy to meet for the first timein our own chapel, begining our first revival meeting which lasted until November 26.Prior to this we were very busy cleaning, r^jbairing, painting and decorating the place.It was a thrilling experience to see our mei^rs united and helping in whatever theycould. For tiTo solid weeks, every night we tjiire working at the church and were able, withthe Lord's help to get ready the chapel and ihe first floor for the revival meeting.Then again, before the'Christmas season T\re c0ntinued to work in the second floor. It isamazing and marvelous how the Lord helps those who are dedicated to His work.Before December the whole 2nd floor was i^inted, cleaned, decorated and ready to beused for classrooms and receptions. Brother ]^jko and Polish students took an activeparticipation in all these activities; it was a familiar sight to see Bro. Paul with abrush, hammer or a broom trying to do acythiiig possible to help.During the Christmas vie had a nice service connected with the children's program.Now that we have our own building,/ although is not paid yet/, we have decided to holdregular orchestra and choir rehersals on Prices and Saturdays, thus we aim to interestthe children and adults in the service of the Lord. Also now we have two services onSunday and a prayer meeting on Saturday night •Pray for us that the Lord will give us wisdom and strenght to go on serving Him.

Xours-^in-Chr-ist,

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DEPARTMENT OF MISSIONS- P.O.Box 22^^^ 21 ,9o2Bel Air, Md. Feb.19.1962

/felavic Christian Mission/

The Department of Missions began its activity in June Isf?^ when I was called

to E .0*1• /Eastern Christian Institute/ with a program that covered several

fields and branches of work for the glory of our Lord.

This is ^Aiat we did and are doing in the field of missionss

1# In the past years I preached in the Slovac Chruch of Christ in Bayonne, N.J.

With the move to Bel Air, Md. I established The Slavic Church of Christ in

Baltimore9

2 • In I957 one student from Argentina has been brought and treindd at E.O.Q.

In I959 tv70 young men from Poland have been brought to this country and

are receiving now their training at E.C.C./blastern Christian College/.

5. Thousands of Bibles and New Testament have been sent to Poland and Russia.

4. Polish Song Book /2kl songs/ and Life of Christ Visualized in Polish and

Russian languages have been published.

5. A Polish magazin is beeing |>ublished monthly.

6. Constant support to churches in Poland is beeing send.

7. Relief to Poland /parcels "with clothing, medicin, bicycles/I

6. Translations.

9. Teaching at E.C.C.

10. Radio Program.

June 1961 Bro.^ Sister Adam Korenczuk joined the vork as minister to the Slavic

Church in Baltimore#

The Bible is the -greatest factor in our ministry, because many times \dien prea

cher or any other person can not go, Bible goes. In all the years of our minist-

try in U.S.A. we were able to preach to many soluls in Poland and even in

Russia by sending them the Word of God. V/ e received many letters from Poland

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and Russia thankiiig us for the Bible: "Thank you for your precious gift, this

wonderful Holy Book, which leads us to our eternal home»" Orj "B/ty heart is

overflowing with thanks to God for all those who bring us the Bread of Eternal

Life, feMch surely stren^|ps our spiritual life#"

I want to share vdth you one incident from a thousand, how the Bible works in

Suropat

One of our faithful preachers was arrested and put in prison. Many thoughts

went through his head concerning his imprisonment and when he was really down,

the words' from Psalm 2^ came to his mind: "lea, though I walk through the valley

of the shadov/ of death, I vail fear no evil; for Thou art with me; Thy rod and

iChy staff they comi'ort me." These words strengihiened him so much, that instead

of complaining he started to preach the Gospel of Christ for his fellow-prisor-

ners, realizing, that it was his nev/ mission-field, and maybe even larger, than

his congregation. Some of the prisoners listened patiently, but some were offen

ded that he preaches to them* because they claimed to be Christians also, although

they never read the Bible, There v/as one man vjho seemed to be more offended than

anybody else and he started even to insult the preacher#

Days were passing by and one day the faithful preacher ms released from the

prison, but he did not forget the prisoners to v/hom he preached and a«pecially

that one who insulted him. He prayed for them all and for him especially#

One day the preacher received a letter from thisxiascH very man and to his great

surprise and joy the letter contained one petition; "Send me the Bible."

W ithout any delay the Bible was delivered to the man and the preacher fell

again oil. his knees# A few months later came another letter full of joy with a

beautiful poem in which the prisoner expressed the longing of his soul. He

stat-ed that through the Bible the light started to shine in his dark soul, hope

entered into his life, love toward God av/akened in his heart, faith was born

and decision v/as made to Accept and obey Christ. As soon as the prisoner was

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released he found the preacher and after malcLn^- confession he asked to be

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V/ith every day our mission v/ork grows. The time is short and we try to redeem

every minute in our ministry. We need prayers of faithful Christians in this

country in behalf of our ministry and Chi-istians in Europ^

We also need constant support. In order to do our work we need approximatly

§ 1500*- per month and we have in pledges only $ 700»- Every gift will be

apprediated very much.

Our goals for the future:

1. To train more mtive preachers.

2. To challenge more your^^ people to go to Europe as missionaries.

To send more Bibles and Nev/ Testaments.

4. To publish more Christian literature in Polish and Russian languages.

5. To support more preachers.

6. To establish more churches.

7. To preach on Radio not only in Polish but also in Russian language*

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The btiiiding was rjurchased for S 8,250.00 with a mortgage on a very shortterra#

Although we knew that the load would be too heavy to carry for us alone,we ti'usted and hoped ^hat our Christian friends of the Slavic v.ork willcome with help to us.Therefore we appeal to you in the name of the Lord for special contributions •

Dir-ict vour contributions to:

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DEPARTMpr OF MISSIONSEasteiTi Christian College

Paul Ba^ko Bel Air, Md» April,I962

Dear Christian Eriends:

In the last three months we were very busy.The first three weeks in January I did not have any outside speaking engagernents, soI was able to answer hundreds of letters, to call on people in Baltiniot*e and to havefellowship with the Christians of the Slavic Church of Christ in Baltimore*Beside that we recorded 8 radio programs in Polish language to be broadcasted throughRadio Luxembourg every Lord's Day.For January 21 through 28 I was invited by the student body of Atlanta Christie College, E. Point, Ga. to be their speaker for the spiritual emphasis week. During thatweek beside the 8 messages which I preached at the College, I preached- for the Sei*vicefeekers dub, for the Youth Rally and I preached at 8 churches in Atlanta and Savanah,Ga. It was a mountain top experience, because in addition to my preaching about ^iri-tual life, I was able to talk xjith students about their spiritual life personally andtheir call to the ministry.At that week in the time of rest I was able to prepare 9 mpre sermons in Polish language for our broadcaist.After return from Atlanta a new. semester at E.^C.C. began and I was asi^ed to teach acourse in the New Testament Survey and my wife second semester of German language.

After teaching one week and making up classes for the next week, answering correspondence and puting the February issue of Polish magazine, I left for the next trip toIndiana, Michigan and Illinoi for ten days where I took part in 2 Missionary Ralliesone Youth Rally and spol?e in several churches. Then I was hurrying back because we hada service of dedication of our nex^rly purchased building for the Slavic Church, of Christin Baltimore. That service took place Feb. 18, under the direction of Bro. A# Korenczuk,minister of the Ch"urch. We had representantives from almost aTl our churches in thearea and also from Lancaster, Pa. Ministers from the represented Churches spoke brieflyand then Bro. J.T.Segroves, president of the College brought the closing, very ;3Lnsp'iringmessage. The choir of the Slavic church brought special music and after the service refreshments were served to all present. It was a ^eat day in the history of the Slavic

-Church Baltimore^^February 22nd I was again in Ohio. Fir^ at the Cincinnati Bible Seminaiy where I spokeat the Mission W6ek and during the weekend I spoke in 2 churches in HiHsboro, 0. andfor the mid-week service at the Chase Ave. Church in Cincinnati.

March ^th I was again in Baltimore with our Slavic people.During January and February in addition to her busy schedule of teaching at theCollege, teaching the Sunday School, i-iriting and translating articles, correcting andtyping the first copy of our Polish magazine, my wife .prepared 32 jsarcel^ used clothing for needy Christian families in Poland. Thi? requires lots of work and time butshe worked gladly, knowing the usefulness of that ministiy. Then I shipped those parcels to Poland. The TJOstagfi^-was -i2i^5. 7S.At the present time we have over lOOOlbs of used clothing, but. we are .not able to sendit, because ..we-^dp not have money.So' please TorHiKetime being do not send clothing, buthelp us firiancial35^o^5i^^OT~^ shipment."We thank all churches and individuals who sent us clothing. Usually we try to thankeverybody personally for the parcels with clothes, but somehow we ^ve a feeling thatwe missed somebody lately. We received one parcel while we were packing those 32 parcelsand the addres got lost .but we think it was froiii Ripley,Cw. So thank you'very Biiich. -

March 7th I was again on the road headajig for Grayson, Ky. to Missionary Rally, fromthere to Buchanan, Mich. Youth Rally and from Buchanan to Toledo, Ohio, Youth Rally.March 25th I was at the Missionary Rally in Flora, liUL. and. preached also in Fairfieldand Robinson, HI.

B3.-M^ch we ,sent to Poland ._pve:c-4-5aQAi^ ^pport of 8 ministers and also for purchaseof Bibles and New Testaments. For another 4^100.00 we sent medicijoie. some money wasalso sent for bicycles. ^ ""In Poland our brethren have still freedom to preach and they redeem the time.Hundreds of people are anxxous to listen to our radio programs xje have many lettersin which people express their joy and thanks fou our radio program and their sorrow thatthe present station is not clear and has to much disturbance. We are trying to changetime in order to have clearer reception in Poland.

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Our two Polish students, George Ba.jenski and Ilostek Jakonixak are making nice progressin English language and other studies. Althoug;h it is hard to raise support for them,and we still owe the School 200#00 dol. for this year, we are proud of them and thankGod that they are with us in this country prei>aring themselves for the ministry in Poland. In addition to their study they help us 'with the radio programs and with the workin Baltimore.

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n every Sat\jrday. Also he organized a youth clu[b and meets with the boys every Friday/j evening.

/ / To that club belong many boys of non-christialn parents and many times the parents object/ their attendance, but the boys love Adam an4 his Christian program and some of them

attend those meetings against the will of the^r parents. We hope that this will beanother way to win people for C3hrist. We hope to attract them soon to our Sunday Schooland services on Sundays.. . „ .These programs we are able to develop and wor>: without any hindrances because of ourown building-which \-je TJurchased in November ]js^l for 825Q-*QP —

\ In response to oiar aK>©al concerning that purchase w^p~r^eived already 3215.37 dol.I We think this is'wonderful and we thank thosQ friends once more for their prompt and .\ wonderful response, but we ^ilj need,over 5C^P#0Q dpi. to pa^ debt and we hope to hear\ from many others soon also.

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DEPARTMENT OF MISSIONS

P.O. 229, Bel Alt, M.

Uxarn-^ ^962.Y&x^ _ 9^Dear P^iends in Christ:

Greetings in the name of the Lord.

In many crucial moments we go on our knees to our heavenly Father and ask Hisguidance and help# Always our prayers were answered in a wonderful way, becausewe believe that He tcfuched the hearts of those to whom we wrote.

At the present time we have a special reason to pray and to appeal to you, andwhen you will read this letter and make your decision, we will be prying aboutyoud..

As you know from our reports and from my personal presentations that in additionto our work in the College, Publication, Radio and 1-fission work in Poland, weundertook a very in^iortant step and a challenging task to preach the Gospel ofChrist to the Polish, Russian and Ukrainian people in U.S.A. This field Tsas ccm-letely neglected by the Restoration Movement. With the Lord's help 2 years ago,WB started to preach in the City of Baltimore and a year ago we were able to or- .ganize The First Slavic Church of Christ in the U.S.A. with 13 chartered members,most of them ladies, whose husbands are not Christians yet, but we hope to win •'them to Christ. Because it was hard for me to preach all the time and travel, w©called Bro. Adam Korenczuk, graduate of Eastern Christian College and MilliganCollege to become the minister of this congregation. Bro. Adam joins me in thisletter and it is also his Betitiom and the petition of the whole congregation inBaltimoreo

Till November 24, we had our services once a week in a Methodist Church, wherewe were very limited. We would like to have more than one service, special programsfor our Xouth and children etc., but we were limited. On our congregational meeting Sspteuiber I7, I96I, our group decided to 'bay our own building. We prayed theLord and He gave us the building in an ^ceHent place for 8.250.00 dol.Because we are a very small group, we were able to pledge 1.000.00 dol. plus ourown %±thes» We borrowed money on a very short term and with the help of someFriends in C^irist we were able to pay off some amount in addition to that weput over 500.00 dol. into iii5>rovement of the building, what was raised ty orwnmembers.

AT the present time our need is VERT UR(gINT. We NTM 1.800.00 dol» immediately*

Because we are a missionary church, we appeal to you to help us to raise thisamount. Please do not pass this appeal by, but what Lord put upon your heart sendus immediately.

We know that you will help us because you love the Lord and his cause, you Icfveus and did so much for us already, please do not refuse this tome neither.We know that you have many projects, but please make one special offering forthis cause and I know that vjith special effort you are able to do it. Many, manytimes I do it nyself when I try to help others and this time I Tiiill do again,please join me in it. It trill strenghten us, our people and will give a victoryfor the Lord. In our 'own btiilding we have 3 services every week, Bro. Adam trainsthe youth to play in the orchestra, sing in the choir and has special programs.We even plan to start a work among the American people, because for almost 900*000people in Baltimore there is no loyal Church. Also there are plans to start thework among spanish speaking people.

Our trust is in the Lord but we know that the Lord works through His people andwe are ax^aiting anxiously on your help.

Please issue all-checks on the Departaaent of Missions with ^ note /For the Churchin Baltimore/ and send us in enclosed envelope.

Ifey the Lord bless you richly*

Yours in His service.

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DEPARTMENT OF MISSIONS at Eastern Christian College, BEL AIR, M.Paul Bajko, dir«

June, 1962

To our dear supporters and friends in Christ, jUU 7

Before we will swing into our very busy suinmer activities, we want to share with yousome of our experiences and blessings in our work in the last two months and ask foryour prayers and support for our constant ministry in the Lord's Vineyard.

Our LOCAL MINISTRY-In oui^ local ministry we include teaching at the College, participation in the programof the College and work in Baltimore, As usually I tought the Su2Tvey of New Testamentcourse and my wife tought German language. It is a blessing for us to train young peoplefor the ministry not only in this country, but also to foreign countries. We took alsoan active part in the First Missionary Convention of E.C.C. which was a great successand challenge to everybody for a greater ministry. wife is a regular teacher of thePrimary Dept. in the Sunday School at the Creswell Church of Christ. Twice a week - Saturday and Svinday we go to Baltimore to the Slavic Church of Christ, where we take anactive part in the work by preaching, teaching, visiting and even doing remodeling of thebuilding.

TRAVELS.

During the last two months several thousand of miles were added to my speadometer.March 3I. through April 9. I spent in Indiana, where I spoke at the Youth Rally in NorthHighland Church, Bro. Joe Ellis, minister. Then I preached on Sunday morning at the samechurch; then I preached and showed slides at the i'-Iarkle Church of Christ, Bro. X.Odor,min.Ashley Church of Christ, Bro.J. Conley, min.; University Christian Church, I-Juncie, Bro. D.Hickerson, min.; First Church of Christ, Garrett, Bro. Ch. Secrest, min.; Christian ChurchBluffton, Bro. W. Dunshie, min.; Tri-State preaching Rally at Garrett, Ind.; ChristianChurch, Harlan, Bro. J. Boi^les, min.; Church of Christ, Leo, Bro. Jerry Paul, minister;and Parkview Church of Christ, Ft. Wayne, Bro. W- Lower, min.April 28. through May 7* T made another trip during which I was in four states. FirstI spoke at Allentown Church of Christ, V3heelersburg,0. Bro. C. McLawhon, minister; thenI spoke the same day April 29® at a Youth Rally at W. Union, 0. and in the evening forthe Fifth Sunday Rally at South Shore, Ky. Monday through Friday we had very unique missionary Rally in Kentucky. It was unique because there were 3 missionaries and aechmissionary spoke in a different church at the same time, rotating the next days. I spoketwice at Pleasant Valley Christian Church, Robards,!^. Bro. J. Harris, min.5 Christian^Church, Harford, I(y.Bro. N. Able, min.; Bethlehem Christian Church, Madisonville, Bro.Don Baker, minister; Christian Church, Owensboro, Ky. Bro. L. Simmons, minister^-" On Sunday May 6th I spoke at Willow St. Church of Christ, Effingham, 111. Bro- Ch. Jptmson, min.and First Christian Church, Evansville, Ind. Bro. Paul Noiarse, minister.

RADIO ICCNISTRY.During xny travels and stay at home I preapared several radio messages, what is not aneasy job knowing the great responsibility of preaching through radio to many people inPoland and other countries. Bro. and Sister Coble, founders of the Broadcast Mission areresponsible for the payments of time and we are responsible for the programs. Not havingrecords in Polish language we prepare the musical part also and every message written byme must be typed by my wife and sent to the station together with the tape, last 12 tapesI made vjith the the help of Bro. Coble in Garrett, during ray preaching in that area.So far we do not have a good spot on radio and there is many hindrances but here is oneof mar^r statements received in the mail: "Yesterday /it means Monday/ I heard your voiceon the radio. When I heard your message from the God's Word I cried fromRight now we are trying to change the station from radio Luxembotirg to Monte Carlo, T^hichstation is ti-jice as powerful as Luxemboug.

PRINTED WORD.Our Polish Christian magazine "The Guidepost" is published reg\ilarly. Because vre do everything by ourselves the edition of one issue takes full five days. This also is a veryresponsible work because this magazine reaches different people. Some are looking forspiritual strenght, for others their eyes are opened for the truth as revealed in theScripture and others yet are finding the iiiay of salvation. Here is one of many statements: "Thank you very, very much for your magazine. Your articles about the "Returnto the church of the first century are wonderful and helped me much. All articles arevery good, written in a simple my and with deep thoughts and truth."Bibles and New Testaments are distribited among people and here is one statement also:"Hearty thanl: for the New Testarient. Ii/hen I received it I thought that I shall have no

the torch for r«r path1 Wish all people have this holly Book."

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SUPPORT OF WORK IN POLAHD:Eight ministers in Poland receive full supp<^:Lord is blessing their ministry. Th^y ask fora great need and the time is short.Thei'e were also many petitions about medicine which was sent immediately to Poland®

PARC3ELS. /VJGc^tten By Mrs. Bajko/We want to share with you some of our joys that we experience while reading the thank-you letters £rom the families, to whom we S€nt used clothing. While packing the last33 parcels I kept thinking about one familyiThey did not ask for it, I did not have any;

»rt who preach the Gospel redeeming timeoprayers in their behalf because there is

that maybe we should send them a parcel,letters from them, but somehow I had a fee-

ling, that we should send them something. This family has 10 children from 1 year -20 years of age. So-we packed two big packages and recently came a thank-you letter fromthem. When we read it we could not keep the!"It is so hard to feed such a big family, a^i for clothing we never have enough money.We were alreacJy in such situation that the caildren had nothing to wear. We did not know

tears away. They wrote something like this:

how and where to get for them clothes, so wecame as a wonderful answer to our prayers -we praised the Lord for taking care of usin such a wonderful way and we want to thank you eveiiyone who contributed to thisparcels from the bottom of our hearts, becauue "I was naked and ye clothed me....**in our next 3;'eport we shall quote some other letters and now together with our brethrenfrom Poland we want to thank every one of ybai, who helped in this ministry by contributing clothes or money for the postage. At this time we would like to mention, that in

knelt down and prayed. Xour two parcels

som9 parcels we found table clothes, kitfchenspoons and forks. Those items we took to ourcause so far our kitchen is not equipped yet;We hope that you don't mind, because it will!

towels, sheets, aprons, pencils and plasticSlavic Church of Christ in Baltimore, be-and those things were very useful over there<serve a good cause also.

ANSWERED PRAIERS.In the last two months Lord manifested HisOur broad field of ministry requires good fabudget. Our need is 1500.00 dol per month regIn connection with' our radio work we needed aSave money and time. Dtiring visit at thewith some members of the Missionary Committee ito prayj what I did. Next day I went to the i ivalue of 750.00 dol for 350.00 plus 50»00 forn^r great joy the Missionary Committee of the !that purpose. It strenghtened rn^r faith to sedI rejoyced seeing the response of the wonde

Ify other wony was how to ps^r the balance forjI mentioi^ed that in last report. During n^imy great surprise Ero. B. Hargrave, ministerthe rally and Inhere was an extra offeringnot quite enough so on Sunday Bro. Loiter app6^Ft. Wayne, Ind. and fey made a special offerI was able to pay off all debts for the schoo'There are many other needs, which we believehelp of our wonderful Christian friends, who

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!f)arkle Church designated the full amount forhow wonderfuly God answered my prayers and

Christians at tJie Markle Chprch.

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BALTIMORE. /Written by Adam Korenczok, miniDuring the last five months the Lord has blesIn February we Had the dedication services i4friends came to rejoyce together. We had a sj^our choir, solos and duets from the church. Tl,itations ftom many churches. After the serviceOn May 19 and 20th w© had the dedication serv3|'gathering. We had with us the choir^ and

stor/4ed us very richly here in Baltimore,the American language, where many of ourcial program with the participation of,e church was full and we had represen-we had refreshments for everyone.ces in the Russian languages We had great

from Russian Church ±n Nemrk«_J[i^._The_guests and wonderful meetings.

.es who are outside of Christ and Fridays, where young people come to hear more

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Lord blessed us during this period with so maDuring the week visitations are made to famiiljiiwe Beet with the newly organized "Bqy's CluWabout Christ and some entertaiments.

Pray for us that the Lord would always be wit):and sin.

May Lord bless you richly

ti us in this endless struggle against evil

Your missionaries.

DEPARTMENT OF MISSIONS

Pa\il Bajko, DirectorEastern Christian College

Bel Alp, Md. September, I962

Dear Friends in Christ:

Peace Be Unto Youl

last news letter was issued just before our suumier activities started, so this timeI would like to share with you oxar ministry during the month of June, JxiHy and August#

As soon as the school year at E.C.C. was over, George Bajenski and I were on our way toour first Christian Service Camp in Washington, N*C» This summer I was able to be present

Jbn seven Christian Service camps: - North Carol., Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Six of them were senior camps and one intermediate# In different camps I had diffe;-rent duties: in some I tought, in other I tought and spoke in the chapel, in other I wasJust chapel speaker and evangelistic speaker®In a short letter I am not able to write in details about the importance of this ministry, about the results and blessings received there, but the following citation from oneof many letters that I received as the result of the camp ministry will give you fairlygood picture;w Dear Mr. Bajko,I'm Sony I did not see you before you left, because I wanted to thank you for everything you have done for me. Xour talks have meant a lot to everyone who was at ButlerSprings. They have caused many of us young people to stop and think about God and Jesusand what They mean to os. Beside the four of us that dedicated our lives to Christ thatFriday morning, seven others dedicated their lives that night and all because of you.We were impressed by your experience and your devotion to God. We saw in you a man wholove God and who wanted to help others love Him too... /Then she wrote about her struggle with herself to make the decision and finally©o... It was a strange voice thatthat spoke firmly. It said: - «*Go up, now** and a warmth that was like a hand seemed topush me from where I was standing. I nearly loiocked down a friend in iny huriy to leavemy seat. I couldn't get to the front of the chapel fast enough to give insrself to Jesus*Usually, I can control my tears but th^ flowed uncontrollably that I could no more havestopped those tears that I co\;ild„have_j5ti3jqpfid^_the earth-in_i±s oi4)it. When I leffc thechapel, I looked at the blue sky and green trees and I felt God all around me. I foughttears the rest of the day. I pray that I may fulfill my obligation to God for I loveHim so very much. In Christian love, - Sh. H."

George Bajenski, a Polish student was with me in two caraps and did a wonderful job insong leading, recreation, teaching and preaching. Beside that George was able to visitother camps with the message of Jesus Christ.

Kostek Jakoniuk, the other Polish student, was a missionaxy speaker also in severalcamps, and both of them spoke also in several churches. From everywhere George and Kos^tek have been we received wonderful reports about their service. Wis are very proud ofthem.

In addition to ray services in the camps I was able to speak in 32 churches on theLord's days and week days. Everywhere I felt the presence of God and received a warmwelcome.

This year together with ny family I was able to attend the North American ChristianConvention in Lexington, I^. where we met hundreds of ministers-friends, their wivesand many other friends from many churches across the country. It was wonderful felowshipand a rich experience.During the summer activities in the camps we did not neglect other duties. Hundreds ofletters were written to contributors of our ministry and many letters were wrutten toPoland and other countries. Also August 13, in one day I made 12 radio programs in thePolish language to be broadcast to Poland through Radio Monte Carlo, begining October 1.This program is coming on the air because of Bro. and Sister W. Coble, founders of GospelBroadcasting Mission.

At this point we want to express o\ir thanks and appreciation to an contributors who sendmoney toward my living-link support, living-link support of Bro. A. Korencziak, ministersin Poland, toward Bibles, publications, and the radio ministry.We also want to thank once more for those who responded to our appeal and helped us topay our debts of the building in Baltimore. Here again the Lord maniffested His powrer. Weasked for ^ 1800.00 and we received exactly $ 180^.00. Praise the Lord for such a marvellous answer to prayers.Our deepest thanks we want to express to several D.V.B.S. which sent their contributionstoward Bibles,New Test., Christian literature, etc. Also I do not want to omitt thankingthe Youth at the camps and churches where I spoke who gave sacrificially toward our ministry. Please pray about us and our ministry and please remember us further in your support.

Poland*

We received many letters from Poland. In those letters ministers, and friends in Christexpressed their thanks for the support and B:Lbles and Polish Christian magazine* Thqy wi-te about great hunger after God's Word ther^in many places many souls accepted Christ as

Also they "wrote us that during the summerpersonal Saviour and have been baptized into

Christ. We thank God for that freedom which our people in Poland have to preach the Gosp^of Christ and that we

Gospel in many ways.still have a wonderful: opportunity to reach many souls with the

Service of Mrs# Bajko."The summer has so much beauty and joy in store for every one, so many happy, relaxingmoments with the sunshine and bird singing a:id the hot sand and the cool waters of riversand lakes, but for a Christian it brings alsi) new challenging work. It started with theD»V.B.S* where I have been in charge of thenary stoeirs from different countries. I en^to hear from the youngsters that they can*t!^it till the missionary story time comes.Before Paul left for his summer journeys we mcket again several parcels with used clo«^thing. Every time we receive a thank-you letter from Poland I am sorry we c^'t felrare itwith all of you. The following short citatioji from one of those letters will tell you,how those people appreciate your kindness ami thoughtfolness: - "lour loving care is more than of brothers and sisters, its lajke ths love of own mother and father and I don'thave enough words to express my thanks. I woHy pray for you and I am going to do that as

Paul was gone already several weeks and weclear to Lexington to meet him at convention

iission-period, telling the youngsters missio-oyed it tremendously and it was so gratifying

aid be guilty before God if I would not dai-long as I live..#."jocked that in order to see him we had to goI was truly thankful to be able to attend

the North American Christian Convention in Lexington. It was n^r first convention and Iwas so happy to meet so msajy old fi^end? and to make even more new friends. Paul travelling all around knows so many people and us^Uy tries to tell me about them, but at theConvention I had the opportunity to get acqxiAited with them also. And the sessions wereso wonderful and I was thrilled by many wonderful messages.

Our oldest girl Yvonne was finally old enoigh to attend a Christian Service Can^) as areal camper. That almost l^oke the hearts of our boys qr»d they could not be comfortedtill they heard that our whole family will ^end a week at the camp in Stillwater, Pa.I had the privillege to teach there and we ail enjoyed that week tremandously.

Back home we are again getting ready to send some more parcels to Poland and it thistime I would like to thank all our friends TOr all the packages that we received lately.It made us feel so good, because almost eve^?;^hing was nice and clean, some heavierthings even dry-cleaned. So thank you very a^ich again." A.B.

Service of Bro. A. Korenczuk, minister of the Slavic Church of Christ in Baltimore."Looking over the past summer we can trul^ say the Lord has blessed us richly. Althogh

the pace has been a little slower we had maig^ experiences in the work of Lord. I had fillin vacationing ministers in other churches teaching Sunday School and preaching the Gospel of the Lord in Balt^jnore among the Slavip people. I am also grateful to have had theprivillege to be at the Christian Camp in Lancaster, Pa. for the Labour Day weekend andlead the young people in their singing. IThis summer for the first time several of ou^ young people attended the Christian ServiceCanQ). This has been a wondeo^ful experience tp all of them and we as the congregationcould notice with gladness and thanksgiving jsome wonderful changes ATnm^g our teenageboys. We were so glad that together with our young people two other, who have -never beenin a Christian Church, attended the caiqp also and liked it just as well as our own youth.Now our prayer is, that the Lord through His IHoly Spirit will work in their hearts thatth^ will surrender their lives to Christ.

In the church, work has been done on the building to inqprove its condition. The "boysclub" continues to be success, every week wq had meetings with recreation artH stuc^jr. Nowthat the summer is over with all its vicissiibudes all things will resun© their normalcourse and will put into effect many project? to advance the Lord's work." A.K.

We have many more wonderful things to tell; you, but ^ce will not permit us.So, God be witfiTyou till the next news letter.

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