International Missions

There are so many things we love about Szczecin, but one of these is the amazing architecture, much of which is original from before the war. Szczecin was formerly Stettin, Germany, before the war, and was given to Poland as reparations. The city plan of Szczecin was modeled after Paris, and is known as a “Green City” because of the many wonderful parks here, and is called the Paris of Poland.

There are eight or more institutes here, including a Naval Academy, a medical university, a polytechnical institute, business college, dental university, seminary, agriculture institute and the University of Szczecin.

Across from our apartment is an elementary school that was used by Hitler during the war as a special training center for future Nazi officers. In this very school, we have had two teachers who want to have their English students correspond with kids from one of our supporting churches in East Tennessee. All the kids from two separate English classes filled out post cards in English, to kids who participated in the Sonday Camp in Maryville, Tennessee.

The teachers requested that we interact with their students and tell them about American holidays, and one has invited us to come to her home for dinner.

When Joseph revealed himself to his brothers in Egypt, he told them “What you meant for evil, God intended for Good, to save many lives.”

One example of this is a boy who now goes to our church, who formerly attended this same school, and accepted Christ when some missionaries played Baseball there and had a Christian concert for the kids and shared the gospel.