Joel & Renata Burnell – World Venture
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We serve in Poland through seminary teaching, mentoring leaders, and Christian counseling. We work primarily with students at the Evangelical School of Theology, our fellow members at First Baptist Church of Wroclaw, and Christian leaders in Wroclaw and Lower Silesia.
Our main challenges are religious formalism, growing secularism, me-first individualism, and eclectic New-Age mysticism.
Pray for Poles who are passionate for Christ, informed by his Word, clued-in to their world, and conversant with their culture. Joel Burnell first came to Poland in 1980 with Campus Crusade for Christ to work with the Oasis renewal movement.
In 1983 Joel, who was then in Polish language school, met Renata at a Christian Conference. They were married in 1987. After attending Western Seminary from 1989 to 1993, Joel and Renata returned to Poland to join the faculty at the Evangelical School of Theology of Wroclaw. In 2007 Joel received his PhD in theology from Open University in England. Joel teaches courses at in ethics and systematic theology, and chairs the theology department at EST. He is also the Director of the Jonathan Edwards Center-Poland, and editor of the Polish translation of "A Jonathan Edwards Reader", published in December of 2014 by EST.
In addition to her Christian counseling practice, Renata serves as Student Counselor at EST, where she also teaches a course of Christian counseling. She is a member of the Wroclaw Chapter of the Polish Society of Christian Psychologists. As a member of the Polish Section of the International Bonhoeffer Society, Joel helped organize Bonhoeffer Conferences at the Evangelical School of Theology in 2002 and 2005. He served on the local planning committee for the International Bonhoeffer Congress in February 2006 to mark the 100th anniversary of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's birth in Wroclaw (then known as Breslau), as well as on the committees for International Bonhoeffer Congresses in Prague (2008) and Sigtuna Sweden (2012). Currently he is on the planning committee for the 2016 International Bonhoeffer Congress (Basel, Switzerland).
- For Joel and his co-editor as they are entering the final, intense period of preparing our academic journal for publication
- For returning students at the seminary, as well as the recruiting process of new students
- The ongoing Ukrainian refugee crisis
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Online Giving Portal: WorldVenture has rolled out a new online giving platform. To make a new commitment, change an existing commitment, or give special gifts, click on the link below ("Donations"). Instructions on how to give, including how to set up a secure online account with WorldVenture, can then be found by clicking on "Ways to Give". Look for our account (4000-070 Joel and Renata Burnell), to make sure your gift goes to our support account. It's as simple as that!
We serve in Poland through seminary teaching, mentoring leaders, and Christian counseling. We work primarily with students at the Evangelical School of Theology, our fellow members at First Baptist Church of Wroclaw, and Christian leaders in Wroclaw and Lower Silesia.
Our main challenges are religious formalism, growing secularism, me-first individualism, and eclectic New-Age mysticism.
Pray for Poles who are passionate for Christ, informed by his Word, clued-in to their world, and conversant with their culture. Joel Burnell first came to Poland in 1980 with Campus Crusade for Christ to work with the Oasis renewal movement.
In 1983 Joel, who was then in Polish language school, met Renata at a Christian Conference. They were married in 1987. After attending Western Seminary from 1989 to 1993, Joel and Renata returned to Poland to join the faculty at the Evangelical School of Theology of Wroclaw. In 2007 Joel received his PhD in theology from Open University in England. Joel teaches courses at in ethics and systematic theology, and chairs the theology department at EST. He is also the Director of the Jonathan Edwards Center-Poland, and editor of the Polish translation of "A Jonathan Edwards Reader", published in December of 2014 by EST.
In addition to her Christian counseling practice, Renata serves as Student Counselor at EST, where she also teaches a course of Christian counseling. She is a member of the Wroclaw Chapter of the Polish Society of Christian Psychologists. As a member of the Polish Section of the International Bonhoeffer Society, Joel helped organize Bonhoeffer Conferences at the Evangelical School of Theology in 2002 and 2005. He served on the local planning committee for the International Bonhoeffer Congress in February 2006 to mark the 100th anniversary of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's birth in Wroclaw (then known as Breslau), as well as on the committees for International Bonhoeffer Congresses in Prague (2008) and Sigtuna Sweden (2012). Currently he is on the planning committee for the 2016 International Bonhoeffer Congress (Basel, Switzerland).