In 1983 Krzysztof Kudzia, the next pastor of Kołobrzeg’s church, was baptized during a camp-meeting in Wisła. In 1984 that same small group numbering over ten people evolved into an independent church. Through voting, the elder of that church became the initiator of Adventism in Kołobrzeg. The same year, the church started systematic mission work, including: proclaiming the gospel from door to door, evangelistic meetings and spreading Christian literature.

One year later, the baptism of two new people, Marzena Surma and a doctor Andrzej Schulz, took place in Wisła. Not long after that event, the next two people were baptized: Robert Dyduła and Dariusz Jankowski. In 1985 Irena Dyduła was also baptized. She went through two surgeries because of the cancer in the brain. Though this created difficulties, she continued with the baptism by immersion.

At the end of the eighties and the beginning of nineties, Mirosław and Krzysztof Kudzia spread the gospel among hippies in Kołobrzeg. As a result of their work Chrystian Skoroszewski was baptized in 1987. His baptism had far-reaching repercussions, among his hippie-friends. As a result of this event, Jacek Walczyk (who also had been going to the meetings) was baptized a few years later. After that, Kołobrzeg’s church increased to about a dozen young people. Some of them began to study at the SDA Seminar in Podkowa Leśna. During that period Krzysztof Kudzia was ordained as a pastor. He was working from September 15th, 1987 until May 1, 1991, when he moved to Gdańsk. Since then the church was under the leadership of Wiesław Daniszewski from Koszalin, step-son of a former elder from Koszalin’s church. Then pastoral duties took up Aleksander Baron from Australia (in 1992-1994, and then 1995/96). In 1995 the charge of the Centrum in Grzybowo took over a young couple named Krystyna and Waldemar Stanisławscy. Since 1995 the church at Kołobrzeg has been in the care of Jacek Igła, a visiting pastor from Koszalin.

The services were held at Izabela Wrzos’ flat on Jedności Narodowej street between 1995-1996. Then between 1991-1997 at the flat of Mr. and Mrs. Kudzia on Waryńskiego street. In 1997 the church rented a room at Social Primary School on Radomska street 22. It was not until 1999 when the church decided to move the service to the center of health and rest in Grzybowo on Plażowa street 19. The service has continued there until today.

The Kołobrzeg’s church is still struggling with the lack of a place for service. In the beginning, it was enough to have only private flats for service. However, recently our church membership has increased, and we can no longer afford to function as a “home church”. Our parish has made efforts for many years to purchase a building, but unfortunately this matter is not easy. So finally we have decided to rent some bigger hall in a public place, but still It is only a temporary solution.

The representatives of our church have applied to the local government with requests for help. We soon realized that this matter is more complicated than we had expected. Eventually the local Government allowed us to participate in the auctioning of a building on Budowlana street. Our parish didn’t have ready cash. However, thanks to the help of other churches, the SDA West Conference and The Polish Union Conference we managed to purchase a tenement on an auction in the downtown. Our intention was to renovate that building but after legal evaluation it appeared that it requires a bigger investment. The roof needs to be replaced, there are a several cracks in the main walls and the building doesn’t have wiring and hydraulic installation. There also isn’t any central heating. The renovation of this building will certainly take a long time. At this moment, we are looking for some sponsors who will help us to collect some funds for a major overhaul.

The tenement house mentioned above can be found in the picture below. As we can see its location is superb. The Budowlana street is part of the old town.