It is time once again to support the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity.
The 19th Grand Finale of the Great Orchestra will be held on Sunday, January 9th. This year, the Orchestra will be raising money to buy medical equipment for children with urological and nephrological diseases
Sylwester Prokurat, Assistant Professor, Ph. D explains the need:
We would like to be able to detect diseases of the urinary tract earlier, because this enables early treatment and urological intervention. The reason why it is so important is that an early diagnosis may have a considerable impact on the patient’s future life.
When a developmental defect of the urinary tract is detected in a little patient, additional diagnostics is necessary, including bladder functioning tests. Since very often such defects are spotted in newborn babies, it is crucial to provide early treatment with the help of precise urological devices.
Another significant problem connected with kidney patients is the growing number of cases of severe kidney damage. As medicine progresses and new difficult yet necessary procedures are being introduced such as bone marrow transplant, liver transplant or heart transplant, the number of patients with acute kidney insufficiency is growing.
It is extremely important that the doctor has the access to so-called continuous hemofiltration methods, instead of having to send a patient to another clinic, sometimes hundreds kilometers away, where it is possible to eliminate toxins. Today, so-called intensive nephrology also includes early kidney support treatment or continuous hemofiltration treatment, aimed at stabilizing the patient, controlling the amount of water in his or her organism, supporting treatment of sepsis (especially within the first 24 hours), and eliminating toxins in cases of mushroom and drug poisonings.
In all those cases time and accessibility of treatment play a decisive role. Modern continuous hemofiltration devices give doctors a wide range of possible treatments, including plasmapheresis (therapeutic plasma transfusion) used in cases of poisoning. These methods are recommended and used in all European countries.
That is why it is very important now that specialists from the fields of nephrology, urology and intensive care work together in order to:
- Improve early diagnostics of urinary tract and provide efficient treatment;
- Prevent severe kidney damage in cases of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome in patients in intensive care units;
- Keep high standard of continuous hemofiltration treatment in children with acute kidney disease;
- Diagnose and treat hypertension in children.
Finale Centers have been set up in the United States at:
Stamford, CT
Polska Sobotnia Szkoła
360 Washington Blvd.
Contact: Kazimiera Ferenc, 203-940-2185
Pomona, NY
Polskie Radio NEW YORK
1551 RT – 202
Contact: Marcin Filipowski, 845-354-2000
Chicago, IL
Copernicus Foundation
5216 W. Lawrence Ave.
Contact: Gregg Kobelinski, 773-777-8898
From the Buffalo News: Sister Mary Christine Ganczewski, educator
Oct. 6, 1922—Dec. 27, 2010
Sister Mary Christine Ganczewski, a Felician Sister for 68 years and educator for more than 40 years, died Monday in the Blessed Mary Angela Care Center in Buffalo. She was 88.
The former Mary Ganczewski was born in Buffalo and entered the Immaculate Heart of Mary Province of the Felician Sisters in 1942. She professed perpetual vows on Aug. 6, 1950.
She was a member of Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Parish. She graduated from the Immaculate Heart of Mary Academy and earned a Bachelor of Science in Education at Mount St. Joseph Teachers College, now Medaille College.
Sister Christine taught students in the primary grades and was an elementary school teacher for 48 years, serving in the Diocese of Buffalo for 41 years and in the Diocese of Syracuse for seven years.
She also was principal at St. Casimir School in Buffalo and St. John Gualbert School in Cheektowaga.
In 1989, she was recognized as “Religious Educator of the Year.”
Sister Christine retired from teaching in 1992 and became an aide at the Villa Maria Infirmary.
She is survived by her sister, Gertrude Zablotny.
A Mass of Christian Burial was offered Friday.
Sister taught me in the third and fourth grade and was my school’s principal for many years. She remembered me whenever we happened to run into each other through the years.
My days in her class were a fond memory, and in the waning days of traditional education and respect in schools. She taught us Polish Christmas Carols, how to stand up and greet our Pastor with “Niech będzie pochwalony Jezus Chrystus” whenever he entered the class. She took care of her little community of sisters at our school, and ensured we were ready for life, artistically, religiously, in the sciences, mathematics, and in literature.
Eternal rest grant unto her O Lord and may the perpetual light shine upon her.
May she rest in peace. Amen.
Wieczne odpoczynek racz jej dać Panie, a światłość wiekuista niechaj jej świeci.
Niech odpoczywają w pokoju, Amen.
January is National Polka Month! Join in at Buffalo’s Broadway Market as they celebrate with live music from some of Buffalo’s best Polka bands. The New Direction Band will be performing live polka on Saturday, January 8, 2011 from 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The Broadway Market offers some of the best local produce, meats and baked goods around. Start the New Year off right with the New Direction Band and the Broadway Market. Visit the Market website for a full list of January’s Polka events.
For additional information contact the Broadway Market at 716-893-0705. The market is located at 999 Broadway and is open everyday, except Sunday, from 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Parking is available in the parking ramp attached to the market.
From Christian Newswire: Top Eight Things Your Church Can Do to Increase Membership in 2011
Most churches in the United States are facing declining membership, but the message is still as relevant as in the past. So what’s changed? The message is getting lost in all the clutter.
Here are my top 8 tips for increasing your church membership in 2011:
- List your church on Google Places. Last month 17 million people googled “church, find a church, church home, Methodist Church, Baptist church, etc.”
- Make up or buy some cards that invite people to your church and hand them out to every member. Ask them to go out and perform random acts of kindness and give out the cards. Memory Cross has developed some very unique ones or you can create your own. If each of your members can touch three people a year, think what an impact that would make to your community and your church.
- Get a list of people in the neighborhoods around your church and reach out to them at least 3-4 times a year. Postcards are a great tool because they are inexpensive and people have to see them, at least for a second.
- Create door hangers or flyers and give them to members to hand out in their neighborhood.
- Hold a free community event. It can be anything from a car wash to a concert to handing out bottles of water on a hot summer day. Do not accept any donations. Instead hand out a card with your church information on it.
- Start using email marketing and ask for the names and email address of all visitors. This will provide you a second way to connect with them.
- Set up a system where you connect visitors with someone in your church as soon as possible. Too many people come one time; and if they don’t feel connected to the church, they may not return. Even a phone call to thank them for visiting is a great way to open up conversation.
- Form a group that is committed to praying for people in your community. Meet on a regular basis and encourage them to write down any outreach ideas they come up with.
If you take action on these eight steps, you will find new visitors coming to your church and people’s lives being changed.
Behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there till I tell you; for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.” And he rose and took the child and his mother by night, and departed to Egypt, and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfil what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, “Out of Egypt have I called my son.” Matthew 2:13-15
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