STORIES INSPIRATION FROM EASTERN EUROPE

Seeding is Believing
As of last week, we have started our spring benefit season in the United States. This year’s motto, “Seeding is Believing,” was chosen to help remind all of God’s workers that our faith is demonstrated by faithfully sowing the Word of God—and that wherever His Word is sown and received by the fertile soil of a soft […]

Community Bible Experience Speaks Russian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk_lVp2tXXk&t=23s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i_0EOBrZqU EEM seeks to boost Bible engagement in Russian-speaking countries through the innovative “Community Bible Experience” program. Individuals are invited to an encounter with God’s Word that can transform their lives. In the year 2016, EEM completed a total of 130 projects, distributing more Bibles and Christian literature than ever before. This year, EEM […]

The Hidden Treasure
Oksana from Lisichansk, Ukraine, shares news of a camp where each of the kids participated in a treasure hunt. The prize? Each camper got their own copy of the Bible! From 11th till 21st of July 2016 in the village Ozernoe, Liman area, we had Christian summer camp “Know God”. We want to thank you […]

Camp Programs Reach Out to Children
In Jesus’ day, parents were bringing their children to Jesus and the disciples tried to stop them. Fast forward 2000 years and the situation could not be more different! Jesus’ disciples are trying to reach out to the littlest ones, but often lack access. Many children these days simply are not exposed to the […]

Ukraine Welcomes “Character for Kids”
Bible-based character training for children a huge hit with Ukraine’s educators. Character International is a ministry whose mission is to teach Bible-based character to pedagogical students in Ukraine and Lithuania. Founded by Charles and Lynda Landreth, this organization presents seminars on “Character for Kids”, applying biblical principles to childhood development. For several years now, they […]

A Heart for Refugees
As the apostle Paul wraps up one of his finest specimens of oratory which comprises the first eleven chapters of his letters to the church in Rome, he offers a few words of practical wisdom for everyday life (with God). Life hacks, if you will. “Hate what is evil; cling to what is good” (Rom […]

Bibles Delivered to Ternopil Schools
Following successful negotiations with the local authorities, deliveries of Bible sets have now begun in the Ternopil region of Ukraine. Work has also commenced in the Volyn region. Since 2007, when the “Bibles for Schools” project was launched in Ukraine, EEM has provided a total of more than 930,000 Bibles, Newcomer’s Guides, and Character for Kids […]

Belgrade Book Fair Shows Promise
Last week, Bartosz Rybinski, EEM’s Vice-President for European Operations, went to the Belgrade Book Fair to present the Bible for Young Readers and Bible for You in Serbian. Together with Drasko Djenovic and his partners from the Ikonos ministry, they shared free copies with teachers, children, representatives of other ministries, and passers-by. The Belgrade Book Fair is an […]

True Blessing for the Congregations
We were pleased to receive a thank-you note from a congregation in the war-stricken Luhansk region involved in extensive ministry, including work with war refugees and people with addictions. They write: Thank you for shipping us great Christian literature. It is a true blessing for the congregations in this region. We distributed the study manuals […]

All This, and Heaven Too!
One of the greatest joys I experience in my travels is worshipping God on Sunday mornings in different countries. This summer, I was on a trip for Eastern European Mission (EEM) to observe distribution of Arabic and Farsi Bibles to refugees. In anticipation of the annual Million Dollar Sunday contributions from our Christian donors, EEM […]

An Unlikely Partnership
The room we entered, an auditorium that can hold some 200 people, was bursting at the seams. The attendees were teachers from the public schools in the Varazdin region in Croatia. They had gathered at the bishop’s palace for a Saturday workshop and, thanks to the efforts of the Varazdin Church of Christ, EEM was […]

Million Dollar Sunday: Giving New Hope in 2016
Bibles in Public Schools “The Impossible Dream”– giving the Bible to people in their own language – is what EEM founding team member and missionary Gwen Hensley told his wife his mission would be after witnessing the emptiness and despair of the people of Eastern Europe his first years in the mission field during the […]