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Response to Evangelistic Campaign in Poland ‘Overwhelming

Friday, 25 April 2008

The response to the recent ProChrist evangelistic campaign in Poland has overwhelmed organisers of the event with an estimated 20,000 people making decisions for Christ.

About 80,000 people attended the crusade between April 6-13. Programmes were transmitted via TV satellite from Katowice in southern Poland to 103 venues nationwide.

More than 26,700 people flocked to the Spondek sports arena in Katowice to witness the Polish programmes. Only the sermons by German evangelist Ulrich Parzany needed to be translated. Some 10,600 decisions for Christ were registered in Katowice alone.

During the closing night, Parzany asked only those to come forward who wished to make a decision to follow Christ for the first time in their life. As a result, 1,500 came to the cross near the platform.

The evangelist praised the co-operation among churches in Katowice as 52 local churches in the city of 320,000 will offer spiritual follow-up courses to the new believers. Parzany was deeply impressed with the fact that he was invited to speak in Poland. After the heavy burden caused by the Nazi era, he regarded the invitation as a “special gift” and a “deeply felt sign of reconciliation and affection.”

ProChrist in Poland was a joint venture of Lutheran, Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist churches in cooperation with the regional Ecumenical Council as well as the Catholic Fokolar Movement and the initiative, “Light and Life.”

* Radio CCM, HCJB Global Voice’s partner ministry in southern Poland, operates six 24-hour-a-day FM radio stations, making gospel broadcasts available to more than 4 million residents. CCM is owned and operated by DEOrecordings, founded in 1986, a Christian nonprofit organization that uses music and the media to spread the gospel. The first station went on the air in Oświęcim (Auschwitz) in 1997. Plans are to expand the network to 17 stations nationwide, linked by satellite. Programmes also air via the Internet (www.ccm.pl).

 

Source: Assist News Service