Faith in Action
A Focus on Children Polish Union Conference opens its first elementary school.
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orty kilometers (about 25 miles) southwest of Warsaw, the capital of Poland, lies the commuter town of Podkowa Leśna. This small city is surrounded by forest on three sides from the east, south, and north. Since 1959 it’s been home to the Polish Senior College of Theology and Humanities (PCTH), and more recently the School of Foreign Languages—the only Adventist school in a country of 38 million people. “For decades Adventist parents have dreamed about the possibility of being able to send their child to an Adventist [elementary] school,” says Dorothy PorawskiOrzechowska, the first director of a school program for kindergarten and grades 1-3, located on the college campus since 2015. The enrollment for those grades currently comprises 10 Adventist children and five from the wider Podkowa Leśna community. In 2018 the curriculum was expanded, and enrollment grew to maximum capacity, with a waiting list of other applicants. Even at an early age, “Adventist education is a combination of the
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