The latest spiritual boost came last month, when some 20,000 people became “born-again’ Christians, organizers of the evangelistic campaign ProChrist in Poland said.
An estimated 80,000 people took part in the April 6-13 event, held in a sports arena of the southern industrial town of Katowice. Programs were transmitted to 103 venues in the whole country.
Roughly 10,600 "decisions for Christ" were registered in Katowice alone, the rest in other places, Pro-Christ officials said. Campaign-leader and German evangelist Ulrich Parzany told reporters he had never seen so many conversions during one campaign.
RECONCILIATION SIGNS
Ulrich stressed that as a German it was an emotional experience that he was invited to speak in Poland, which suffered during the German Nazi era of World War Two. "It is a sign of reconciliation," the Christian ASSIST News Service quoted him as saying.
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".
The program began in 1993, when Billy Graham preached in Essen, Germany. Since then five major international campaigns have been held with Parzany. More than 1,250 venues in Europe were involved in 2006, when ProChrist was transmitted from Munich. (BosNewsLife’s MISSION WATCH is a regular look at missionaries working in difficult circumstances as well as in former Communist countries).
