About

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have been born and raised somewhere during Perestroika, Solidarity, the Velvet Revolution and the other revolutionary history-changing factors of 1989?

We saw things change incredibly fast around us, how people were forced to go from no free market to a completely free market system in a short period of time. 

The very structure of society was tottering, tumultuously finding its new order.

Many things have changed since then. 

The political and political system changes of the 1990s were not the easiest.

The changes we have experienced have been particularly difficult for older people

They were felt most painfully by the most vulnerable, i.e. the old and the sick, former prisoners of ghettos and concentration camps, widows and orphans.

 

At the end of the 1990s, Kazimierz and Dorota Barczuk, started a ministry among Jews in Poland, Russia and Ukraine Moldavia, Georgia, Tajicistan, with humanitarian aid as its main objective.

 

But it soon became apparent that helping people was rapidly turning into the most important help - spiritual.

 

That is why the Chewra Humanitarian Foundation was established in 1998, and thanks to the cooperation of people from Poland and other countries, real aid has reached thousands of people in need.

Various social organizations, foundations, churches and private donors from the country, as well as from many countries around the world, have become involved in this activity.

The scale of this aid sometimes would be hard to believe.

 

Between 1989 and 2006, some 1.6 million Soviet Jews emigrated from the former Soviet Union. 

The Chevra also played an important role in this. 

 

20 years ago, 'Mission Send Me' was founded on this new path.

The organization took its name from the desire of Isaiah - Here am I, send me... (Isaiah 6;8), which inspired its founders, Kazimierz and Dorothy Barczuk.

 

It all started with a simple Shabbat in their home, and various guests were invited for the following weeks.

Not really knowing anyone who was interested in such events, through two influential people who attended one of the first Shabbat Meetings this group quickly grew to include Jewish war veterans, children of the Holocaust and many other wonderful people - Righteous Among the Nations - those who saved Jews during World War II.

 

More and more people attended the subsequent meetings. 

Their flat turned out to be insufficient, so they started to meet in one of the catechetical rooms of Christ Church "Na Puławskiej".

It also turned out that this place was also insufficient, and so regular Shabbat Meetings began in the main hall of this church.

And so, for more than a dozen years now, meetings have been organized every Friday evening in the Christian Community Hall in Warsaw, attended by Jews and non-Jews, believers and non-believers.

 

The Send Me Ministry is the natural continuation of the Chewra Humanitarian Foundation, but its activities have been expanded to include missionary and pastoral work.

 

From the very beginning, Marta and Marek Pasnik have been involved in Mission work.

Their kids Ben and Jonatan as well. 

 

At the beginning of its activities, 'Send Me' invited Jewish children to Poland for 'holidays and camps with the Bible', as well as Holocaust survivors - elderly people from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.

For the last ten years, i.e. since 2010, groups from Israel have been hosted in Poland.

The mission has established cooperation with 'Beit Sar Shalom' from Jerusalem and 'Chosen People' from New York.

The latter has become the Mission's representative in Poland.

 

The aim and dream of the Mission is that the Jews - our elder brothers - can see in us true Christians who support and bless them.

 

The ministry of the Mission in Poland is not only camps.

 

Throughout the year, there are the aforementioned Shabbat meetings at the church in Warsaw on almost every Friday, which are attended by an average of 30 - 100 people and many more who can watch these events online.

"Send Me" also organizes Biblical Jewish holidays and meetings on Biblical culture for people from our church and from churches in Warsaw, as well as in other cities in Poland.

 

The Passover celebrations alone have been attended by a total of around 4000 people each year, mainly in Catholic and Lutheran churches in various cities in Poland.

 

Occasional meetings and concerts are also organized for the Righteous Among the Nations.

 

By God's grace, the Mission Send Me to 2024 has organized 30 camps for 1,200 people, children and Holocaust Survivors from the former Soviet Union; 39 camps for groups from Israel, attended by 1,500 people, children, youth, young leaders of draft age, Messianic Leaders and "Polish Jews".

 

The Feb. 24, 2022 Russian invasion has sparked a new sense of purpose within our organization. 

From the very beginning of the war in Ukraine, we have been committed to helping those who are most in need of rescue.

The Send Me Ministry actively engages in providing humanitarian support to Jews in Ukraine by delivering essential material goods such as food, clothing, medicines, and hygiene products.

The mission also seeks to support local initiatives aimed at the development of the Jewish community.