I was born in South-East Poland. Since my birth, I lived in Łopuszka Mała village. My family was perceived as strangers there as my parents were from nearby villages (my father from Hucisko Jawornickie and my mother from Manasterz). Most of the inhabitants of Łopuszka Mała were linked with each other by blood or extended family relations. There were the only couple of families which were not linked in any way to this local “clan”. Ours was one of these few. So I was a stranger and field myself different, isolated. I had some colleagues but none of them was my real friend. As my family was most of the time busy with hard work on the farm I often was feeling lonely. As for my contact with “religion” I was raised in this respect by my granny – she taught me the most popular prayer and since I can remember all family was in the Church every Sunday. This was local Catholic Church in Kańczuga ( a small town nearby).
Since earliest/early years I observed a dissonance between my religion, everyday life and the Gospel. I felt sympathy to Jesus although I didn’t know Him well. I admired Him for power which had enabled Him to stand such torment and agony on the cross with forgiveness to his oppressors in the face of death. But otherwise, He had no influence on my life which was filled with sin, fear and feeling of guilt. I used to turn to Jesus only in especially critical moments.
After finishing local primary school I studied in Professional Technical School and later in Construction Technikum in Rzeszow (Vocational Technical High School for Construction). I lived there in the dormitory. At this time of my life, I was looking for fulfilment through sports activities. As a young man, I was fascinated with freestyle wrestling and Asian martial arts. Only near the end of my time there I started thinking how to change my life. For short time we have had regular meetings in small group initiated by my colleague (he is now a Roman Catholic priest) most possibly following the Light-Life Movement (widely known as the Oasis Movement).
One day, somehow in the middle of the year 1989 (famous for its start of formal political transformation) at the street stand selling Bibles I bought one and started reading it according to Liturgical Calendar. I was such a rookie/greenhorn that was truly surprised when not all the texts were available there (this was a polish translation of British and Foreign Biblical Society Bible). I started feeling even stronger the presence of sin I was living within. I then decided to undertake full life confession but the fear of judgment and possible rejection had influenced sincerity/honesty/frankness / of my avowal and the feeling of guilt was following me (for a) long time afterwards.
During summer holidays after my maturity exam, I took part in the 2-week long camp which aimed at introducing into monastic/convent life. There I was touched by God’s call to proclaim His Word and understood it then as call/introduction to becoming a monastic priest. I thought about it as penance /expiation for my sinful life. But my involvement/participation in the convent life did not solve by itself internal problems I already had before.
During one-year long novitiate in Sędziszów Małopolski with Order of Capuchin Friars Minor, I read all of “Poznań Bible” (the modern polish collective translation, very close to original texts). Continuing my studies there I started attending prayerful meetings within the Convent with charismatic trait/lineament. I started then slowly getting to know the biblical image of God. I was significantly influenced by Friar Wiesław Wróbel and the book written by Heribert Mühlen "New Life with God" (Mühlen helped to introduce Protestant charismatic ideas into the Roman Catholic Church). On 30th May 1992, when attending a big Catholic Charismatic Renewal meeting in Częstochowa, I started talking in tongues.
After 2 years of studying in Kraków, I was forced to leave the Convent and move to Diocesan Seminar in Warszawa. Continuing my studies there I got in touch with the polish arm of Campus Crusade for Christ and contemplating texts in the Bible gave me assurance/sureness for God’s Love and my salvation through Jesus perfect sacrifice on The Cross. I became passionate about preaching the Gospel.
In the end, I faced the unavoidable choice of authority over my life. To this moment it was the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church. Choosing God and His Word I chosen to reject all that contradicts it.
Until this day I met many different Christian communities and now my wish and my desire are focused on developing in faith Polish Community in the United Kingdom.
In August 2015, I was in training on Divine Healing by Chris Maguire in Chesham. Since then I started practising as a Certified Divine Healing Technician within the John Graham Lake Ministries.
