Estonia

Mike on June 30th, 2010

We returned on Sunday to a beautiful St. Petersburg, Russia.  The weather has been perfect, and it has been great to start reconnecting with family and friends after such a long stay in the US.  Olga took the picture above, in the park across the street from our flat. We are thankful for the many [...]

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Mike on March 31st, 2010

Christina Melton, a Stoneworks Missionary, drove with us from Montenegro to our staff retreat in Estonia. Christina writes, “My goal is simply to be obedient to the Lord and wholly submitted to Him, and to do so with joy, and all this within the context of community.   I cannot see how such a life would [...]

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Mike on March 21st, 2010

Most of the Stoneworks associates and workers are meeting in Tallinn, Estonia for our first annual ministry retreat. I’m the Executive Director, and we’re very glad that we could gather for this meeting. We’re spread out all over Eastern Europe and the Balkans, and this is the first time we’re all together in one place. [...]

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Mike on September 5th, 2009

Here is another great testimony from the work Street Cry is doing in Estonia: We continue to have meetings in a women’s prison every Friday night, preaching the Gospel to the unsaved and equipping the new believers by teaching on the basics of Christian life, praise and worship, prayer, and personal relationship with Jesus. As [...]

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Mike on August 21st, 2009

Estonia continues to be on our hearts. This fall two of our ministry partners are planning to make trips there to minister to ethnic Russian orphans. We hope the Lord will make a way for us to spend much more time there, but for this fall we are called to spend time in Russia and [...]

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Mike on July 31st, 2009

Our church, Street Cry, is starting a ministry in Tallinn, Estonia. Here is the testimony of a young lady, Irina, who came to faith through their prison ministry: “I was born into a family of unbelievers and that is why I never heard about Jesus. The only godly thing I remember from my childhood is [...]

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Mike on July 1st, 2009

This is a pretty amazing story from several years ago  — this is from http://www.rense.com/general75/germ2.htm; there are a lot of pictures on this site. You can see a video at the end of this post. An abandoned tank was pulled from its archival tomb under the bottom of a lake near Johvi, Estonia.  The Soviet-built [...]

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Mike on May 3rd, 2009

A friend just sent me this. It’s great and gives a glimpse of Estonian character and culture. It’s quite a contrast to their neighbor to the East. Russia has the same problem but has not yet addressed it (and probably won’t any time soon). ——— “Half of Estonia’s territory is forest. Yet, these forests are [...]

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Mike on April 28th, 2009

We visited Tallinn a little while ago. Here are a few pictures from the old town, the well preserved medieval city that was a member of the Hanseatic League.  Tallinn was earlier known as Reval.  I’m learning how to make these simple slideshow videos. This is my first attempt.  The music is a movement from a Bach [...]

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Mike on April 18th, 2009

I (Mike) am currently in Estonia again after a quick trip back to Russia.  Olga and I continue in a time of prayer and seeking God’s will for our next steps. But, it is not a time of passive waiting. The Lord has given us good work, and we continue to see His hand in [...]

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