Dear Prayer Partners of EBF Mission Partnerships,
I greet you in the wonderful Name of our Lord who visited this earth over 2 thousand years ago. The period of Advent and Christmas celebration helps us remember this and get ready for Christ’s 2nd coming.
December 2024 is the last month of my work for EBF as I’m passing the baton to my colleague who has been appointed to continue in future. So I write my farewell letter.
It’s hard to summarize the 22 years of this fascinating endeavour in a few sentences. We have witnessed nearly 300 new Baptist congregations being established that comprise about 30 thousand new church members/attenders and many more thousands of those who have been influenced by the Gospel. I tried to regularly inform you about our ministry over the years.
We collaborate as the EBF region is wide and long working with people of different languages and cultures. And sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ has been the number one uniting factor in this work. The most impressive has been to witness the changed lives of the people who surrendered their lives to the Lord Jesus.
Something that really made the MP Program effective was teamwork, so I express deepest gratitude to my EBF colleagues, the longest overlap on the team with Helle Liht, but especially to the key EBF officers: Dr. Theo Angelov, Tony Peck and Alan Donaldson who have been friendly companions and visionary leaders over the years. However, the most important role is played by our dedicated Mission Partners who have supported the church planters.
Now a new opportunity of ministry is opening up for me which is the Polish Baptist Aid. My focus will be on the Ukrainian war refugees who are in Poland. There are about 2 million of them and our churches have already established relationships with nearly 30 new groups. Our goal is to facilitate leaders of Ukrainian groups and help them in ministry.
So finally, I’m glad to introduce to you my successor who will keep up with you about the MP. Find below a few words from Cesar Sotomayor and a picture of his family.
Yours faithfully,
Daniel Trusiewicz
“It is a great privilege for me to serve the Lord Jesus together with you and, as Church Planting Enabler, to be a part of the EBF Family.
As a family, we serve locally by pastoring churches in Austria and engaging in refugee relief projects. My wife, Simone, is a music therapist in psychiatry as well as a worship and children's minister. Together, we have been involved in various projects and missions, with our hearts beating for church planting and our DNA rooted in missiology and worship.
Up to this point, I have been serving in missions and evangelism as a church planter, missionary and pastor of beautiful people who have decided to follow the Lord Jesus. Over the last 21 years, my wife Simone & I have seen firsthand how the Holy Spirit is transforming the lives of Afghans, Iranians, Germans, Austrians, Americans and Latinos. This experience has caused our passion continually to expand in obedience and love.
I am excited to help church planters, pastors and missionaries with their motivation (the local churches and unions) to send, pray and go. I welcome the opportunity to partner and work together with those who have been doing this work for years. And I am eager to learn from those who have much more experience in the EBF region, especially when it comes to developing strategies for church planting and our common mission, praying and implementing the vision built on the Rock, our Lord Jesus.”
Comments