Vision

Our Mission and Mandate are clear:

To train and equip Estonian leaders to plant life-giving churches in the more than 1,000 communities of Estonia that have no local church. In this, we pray and long for a national awakening; that hundreds of thousands across Estonia will follow Jesus Christ and be sent as missionaries to re-awaken Europe and beyond.

The Urgent Need: Life-giving churches.

Our mission to Estonia began long before Mai and I ever met at a Bible school in 1991.

During the Communist days, many of the registered churches in Tallinn, the capital city, were forced into one building to worship under the ever watching eyes and ears of the KGB. The stories of church persecution and hopelessness broke my heart.

Estonia became a free nation in 1991 with the fall of Communism across Europe. After completing Bible school, Mai returned to a newly freed Estonia, to serve as a translator in a bible school. I visited and fell in love with the country.

Mai and I married in 1994 and served as Associate Pastors at River of Life church in New Jersey. We took mission trips to Estonia often, longing for the day we would return full time to help re-evangelize a new generation of Estonians who have grown up in a post-Communist country.

Our family moved to Estonia in 1999 to evangelize and equip leaders to plant life-giving churches. Drive through many towns and the only Christian witness is an old church building with few members. On the street, most perceive church as outdated and irrelevant.

The results of life without Christ are epidemic. More than 80% of all marriages end in divorce. Estonia has one of the highest teen suicide rates and ranks number one in alcohol consumption per capita in all of Europe. Two out of three pregnancies end in abortion. Estonia is number one in HIV among teens in the former Soviet bloc nations.

The spiritual climate is just as chilling. Even though the statistics claim that 70% of Estonians are Lutheran, less than 2% of the population consider God or church any value in daily life.

Estonia today needs a new example of what it means to be a Christ follower and to understand the meaning  of family.

Estonia needs to see an expression of a real life giving, life breathing community of believers and those who are searching…

What Estonia needs today is a New Kind of Church for a New Estonia.