Ela, Accountant

I didn’t think I needed salvation since I’d always been a good girl, causing no problems, not hanging around with rebellious kids – I simply couldn’t see any problem with myself... (available in Polish only)

Renata, ESL teacher

God never let go of me, not even when I got offended, so deeply offended that I started doubting in His existence... (available in Polish only)

Joanna, English teacher

My life was very much like Snakes & Ladders racing board game: you keep moving up the ladder as long as you don’t land on a snake – then you have to move down. I felt as if every time I did something good I earned points and got closer to God, but if I did anything wrong, I moved back – and so on and on, without any actual progress... (available in Polish only)

Zbyszek, small business owner

I tried all sorts of things to quench my inner thirst: joined a gang, got into alcohol and drugs – marihuana and hashish - but nothing could fill the deep void within me and make my life meaningful. It all led to nowhere... (available in Polish only)

Iwona, schoolteacher and re-educator

For a very long time I wouldn’t let God take control over my life. I thought that salvation was for drug addicts, alcoholics and people facing serious problems... (available in Polish only)

Małgorzata, social counsellor

While reading the New Testament one day I suddenly was enlightened. God reveled Himself to me in a totally new way - as Someone I could actually fall in love with, Someone who apart from putting my trust in Him wasn’t demanding anything else, a people friendly God, God who became Man... (available in Polish only)

Ewa, programme specialist

The true god of my life was judo, which I started training at the age of 9. After three months of practicing I started winning my first medals. My entire life remained subordinated to that one thing - nothing else counted... (available in Polish only)

Jan, economics technician

I would go to Confession several times in a month – so much had I desired to live a sinless life and I simply couldn’t! I was like a man who “what he wants to do he does not do, but what he hates he does”. More and more frequently I struggled with thoughts of death and dying… (available in Polish only)

Agata, Polish philologist

“What do you think about Kashpirovsky [the Soviet-era mystic healer]?", those were the first words I heard from my classmate after a summer break, and that’s how my greatest adventure in life started. The adventure with Jesus... (available in Polish only)

Maria, retired

I had a difficult childhood during World War II… I remember our voyage to Poland after being removed from pre-WWII Polish eastern lands in winter 1945, when for weeks on end we were heading towards the unknown, crowded on cattle trains, starving, cold, exhausted... (available in Polish only)