Since the beginning of the devastating war in Ukraine, more than 2 million people have fled to neighboring Poland.
“Most people walk in with one bag and two kids,” says Matausz, who is on staff at St. Martin’s Lutheran Church in Kraków, Poland. His church converted a meeting room into a temporary home for 40 refugees. “They left behind their Bibles, telephones, shoes, even toothpaste. . . . They don’t have anything. They just want a place to sleep.”
Across Poland, churches like Matausz’s have leapt into action to provide different resources, including food, clothing, medicine, and shelter for refugees. But all of these churches share one thing in common: they need Bibles in Ukrainian and Russian, the heart languages of these displaced families.
“There are never enough Bibles,” says Pastor Konrad Krajewski of Christian Fellowship North in Warsaw. “Ninety-nine percent of [refugees] don’t have Bibles when they arrive.”
This month, American Bible Society visited Poland and heard directly from our Bible Society and church partners as they respond to this crisis. Learn more in this special video update from Rev. Enid Almanzar and discover how you can help your brothers and sisters in Poland provide God’s Word to Ukrainians seeking hope for the future.
