Poland

Field Office Information

C&MA Field Entry in 1993

Field Director:

Mailing Address:

ul. Miaczynska 25
02-637 Warsaw, POLAND

Phone:

011-48-22-844-0419

Email:

Website:

National Church

No organized national C&MA church

Team Initiatives

• Initiatives flow out of our purpose statement which is to "develop Polish leaders with the passion and means to sustain a church-planting movement capable of putting the gospel within reach of everyone."
• Work alongside and serve national pastors/church planters as they expand God’s Kingdom. Our workers do not serve as the lead partner but assist the national church through facilitating and mentoring.
• Inspire, train, equip, and mentor local, regional, and national church leadership and church planters by working in partnership with missionaries from other sending agencies.
• Using the Marriage Encounter/ALMA principles, minister to couples and train leaders. This also serves as a primary means of drawing people into small groups and into a church plant.

Demographics

Population

Population--38,635,144 Infant mortality rate--8.5/1,000 Life expectancy--74.4

Capital City

Warsaw (2,201,900) pop.

Geography

The size of New Mexico, Poland (120,728 sq. mi.) consists mostly of lowland plain with the Carpathian Mountains along the southern border.

Languages

Polish

Ethnicity/Race

Polish--96.7%; German--0.4%; Belorussian--0.1%; Ukrainian--0.1%; other--2.7%

Economy

Per capita income--$12,000 Inflation--3.4% Unemployment--19.5% Literacy rate--1000% (2003 est.)

Government/Political Climate

Democratic republic. Poland gained independence in 1918 and was overrun by Germany and the Soviet Union in WWII. It became a Soviet satellite state, but labor turmoil in 1980 led to the Solidarity Movement and multiparty democracy in 1989. Poland joined the European Union in 2004.

Religion

Roman Catholic--95%; Eastern Orthodox, Protestant, other--5%