Elliott & Gabi Phillips

 

Elliott & Gabi serve with CSM to equip worship leaders and musicians to be disciple makers in the local church in Poland.

Who are we?

After six years of serving with youth in Poland with Josiah Venture, the Lord recently called Gabi and me to join up full-time with Chrześcijańska Służba Muzyczna (CSM) - a Polish ministry called to equip worship leaders and musicians to be disciple-makers in the local church in Poland. CSM has accomplished this mission for 17 years by running a monthly worship school, by developing training resources for local churches, and by writing Polish-language worship music to build up the local church.




What we do

With a deep passion for music and the arts, and a love for building up Christ's bride and equipping the saints for the ministry, we joined CSM to serve full-time in ministry in fall 2024. Our desperate prayer is to see God transform Poland through believing musicians, and through Poland, to transform Europe and the world.

We serve in Poland - one of the least-reached countries in Europe - the least-reached continent on the planet today. Poland has an evangelical population of just 0.3% - meaning of roughly 38 million Poles, there are fewer than 120,000 who profess a saving relationship with Christ.

Elliott serves as CSM's Spiritual Formation Director by equipping worship leaders and musicians with Bible training, minstry training, spiritual disciplines, and small discipleship groups. Gabi supports CSM staff logistically and administratively to help them effectively accomplish the ministry’s goals. It takes a special person with special patience to wrangle a bunch of artists together into one cohesive unit, and God has blessed Gabi abundantly for this role.

CELEBRATIONS

PRAYER NEEDS

  

  • Alongside our CSM teammates, we just kicked off the organization's 17th year of organizing a monthly training school for worship leaders and musicians serving the local church in Poland. We are honored this year to be serving 75 different local churches from across Poland by equipping 115 leaders, musicians, and tech volunteers.
  • As a personal celebration, I (Elliott) recently wrote a small book together with CSM's ministry director called "Duchowe Rytmy" (eng. "Spiritual Rhythms"). Duchowe Rytmy is a guidebook for our students to use as they engage in 3-4 person community groups this year, deepening their faith in Jesus together and encouraging one another in Christlikeness.
  • Our youth group in our local church is in the process of handing over leadership to a young man named Tymek - a 19-year-old who I've had the privilege of discipling and equipping in various capacities over the past three years. We are incredibly encouraged by his growth, maturity, and love for Jesus and the lost. Tymek will, Lord willing, be an amazing leader for our youth in the years to come!

  

  • Please pray for our family as we transition from full-time ministry with Josiah Venture to full-time ministry with CSM. With this transition come a host of logistical changes to work through, plus additional support we need to raise. Please pray for the Spirit's guidance and the Father's provision over our lives and ministry in this season.
  • Please pray for the new Duchowe Rytmy groups our CSM worship students are engaging in this year. Our dream is to see them catch the vision for discipleship done in community in these groups, and to take the guidebook and start their own groups within their local churches!
  • Please pray for our family and marriage as we continue learning how to be God-honoring parents and spouses as we raise our 9-month-old son. We deeply desire to be the aroma of Christ (2 Corinthians 2:14-17) to each other and to the world around us in our marriage and parenting.

How Can We Help?

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