INTERNATIONAL MISSION SCHOOL

POSŁANI – MESSENGERS

INTERNATIONAL MISSION SCHOOL

POSŁANI – MESSENGERS

INTERNATIONAL MISSION SCHOOL

MESSENGERS 2025

Mission School 2025

The International Mission School MESSENGERS 2025 is a joint project launched by several communities in response to the urgent need to fulfill in our times Jesus’ missionary mandate: ‘Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to all creation’ (Mark 16:15).

The School comprises 8 weeks of formation based on building a personal relationship with God and equipping participants for evangelisation and mission, including a 2-week mission trip.

This format is a follow-up to an international project that began in the 1990s under the name “School of Evangelisation and Christian Life” and has been continued in subsequent years by communities that grew out of that experience and that are the organizers of the current edition of the School.

The two-month Mission School experienced in an international community of believers is a time for participants to give a radical yes to God’s love and His invitation to intimacy. The fellowship of students and teachers, as well as the School’s curriculum offer an environment that fosters growth in Christian life and encourages participants to embrace God’s calling in their lives.

The School’s organizers and leaders have gone through the same formation, and the fruit of their lives – in some cases 30 years after they participated in the School – is a testimony to how much God can do in us and through us, if we let Him.

The School comprises 8 weeks of formation based on building a personal relationship with God and equipping participants for evangelisation and mission, including a 2-week mission trip.

Participants

The School will train participants from communities in Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, the UK and other countries who want to follow the call to evangelisation and respond to the missionary mandate to preach the Gospel in the modern world.

Registration is now OPEN!

By clicking on the button below, you can let us know you are interested in participating in the School

and begin the recruitment process.

Declarations will be accepted until November 23, 2024.

Teachers

STASIA IŻYK-DEKOWSKA

Stanisława Iżyk-Dekowska graduated in Theology from the Catholic University of Lublin and holds a degree in Biblical Studies from the Institute of Biblical Studies of the Catholic University of Lublin. She is the founder of the evangelisation community Dom Zwycięstwa (House of Victory) in Toruń and the Director of the ProMisja Association – Covenant of Catholics for Evangelisation and Mission, which is a network of communities originating from the community in Toruń. She has been involved in missionary activity in Mongolia since 2002.

Committed to evangelisation, she initiated the Alpha course in Poland in 1999. In the years 2005-2012 she was the Director of the Alpha National Office, and then served as a Board member of Alpha Poland. Since 2011 she has been leading a community in Warsaw as part of the ProMisja Association.

COLIN SYMES

Presbyterian pastor and theologian. He has obtained a Bachelor’s degree in theology from the University of Edinburgh, studying under Presbyterian theologian T. F. Torrance, and Master’s degree in theology from the International Baptist Theological Seminary in Prague. For over 25 years he has led the leadership team at Community Church Edinburgh. He is also involved in ministering to the Polish community in Edinburgh by co-leading Alpha courses and undertaking joint evangelistic ventures.

COLIN SYMES

MATT LOZANO

Matt is the Director of Training for Heart of the Father Ministries. He is passionate about sharing the life-changing truth of God’s Word in a clear and practical way. Matt has over twenty years of experience teaching in the classroom and around the world. He has a BA in History from JMU, an MA in Educational Leadership from Villanova University, and an MA in Theology from the Augustine Institute. He is the author of Free to Be Holy and co-author of the Unbound Ministry Guidebook and Abba’s Heart. Matt ministers alongside his amazing wife Jennifer and they are blessed with five children.

Master’s degree in Theology from the Komenski University in Slovakia, Licentiate in the Theology of Spirituality from the Primate’s Institute of Spiritual Life in Warsaw, and a Doctorate in Theology from the Catholic University in Slovakia, where she wrote a thesis on intercessory prayer in evangelization. Co-founder and member of the House of Judah community which proclaimed the good news about Jesus in 17 different countries on 4 continents over the span of 30 years. Currently runs a Mission House in Sabinov, Slovakia.

DR. HANA ŠIMČÍKOVÁ

DR. BOHUŠ ŽIVČÁK

Doctor of Pastoral Theology at the Catholic University of Lublin, taught at the Catholic University in Ružembork. Founder and leader of the largest community in Slovakia, Rieka Zivota. Renewal Ministries National Coordinator for Lithuania and Kazakhstan. Oblate of the Redemptorist Congregation, lay missionary in Slovakia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania, Kazakhstan and Kenya. Director of a Caritas Hospice. Musician, worship leader. Wonderful husband of Alena, with whom they have four children and one grandchild.

MICHAŁ GRZANKA

Leader of the Public Association of the Faithful of the Warsaw Archdiocese House of the Covenant – In Service of the Gospel, Renewal of Life, Unity of Christians and Jews. Graduated in special pedagogy from Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University. Co-founder of the tato.net initiative. Husband of Agnieszka, father of Janek, Mikołaj and Gabrysia.

MICHAŁ GRZANKA