Fr. Janusz Burzawa, scj is the eldest of three children of Janina Nagorzanska and Franciszek Burzawa. He was born on September 14, 1964 in Wietrzychowice, south of Poland, not far from city of Tarnow. The first years of his childhood he spent with his family in a small village in Siedliszowice. In 1971 he went to the school. Since the Elementary School in Siedliszowice, at that time was only a five-grade school, he had to transfer to another school in Otwinow. After that he went to study at Liceum in Dabrowa Tarnowska. It was then, when for the first time he met one of the SCJ priests, who was giving a retreat.  Also, some of his schoolmates, after graduating from that school, had entered the Congregation of the Priests of the Sacred Heart. Thanks to that, he had some opportunities to visit them in Novitiate and in the Seminary. In 1983, he too decided to join the Congregation. His batch was the first who made their Novitiate in Stopnica. On June 13, 1990 he was ordained a priest and assigned as an assistant parish priest in one of the biggest parishes in Lublin, where he worked for two years. Learning from the Provincial Superior about the need of missionaries in the Philippines, he decided to join the mission. In 1992 he went to USA to learn English and in December 1993 arrived in the Philippines. Since the beginning he was assigned in the following places: Kumalarang, Dimataling, Margosatubig and Dumalinao.