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Volume 5 - 1989
Yugoslavia is a unique communist country, consisting of:
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My recent mission to Europe was both heartbreaking and heartwarming. I traveled across a continent in decline and crisis, yet I had the privilege of ministering in some of the brightest outposts of vibrant spiritual life and dynamic faith. Secular Humanism with its materialism and unbelief was pervasive, and, in many surprising places, Islam was on the ascendancy.
Volume 1 - 1989
In the Soviet Union in 1989 where
Volume 3 - 1989
A German Lutheran stepped up to me and declared loudly for all to hear: “You are a supporter of apartheid, oppression and racialism in the facist Pretoria regime!” I looked around me in surprise and asked, “Excuse me, but I don’t remember meeting you before. Do you know me?” “You are a racist!”, he spat. Volume 1 - 1990
The dismissal and arrest of a Reformed pastor led to widespread demonstrations and a whirlwind uprising that swept a communist dictatorship into the dustbin of history. Rev. Laszlo Tokes, a 37-year-old Hungarian Reformed pastor in the Transylvanian city of Timisoara was courageous in exposing the communist persecution at a time when such courage was rare in Romania. Volume 1 - 1990
Over 50 000 people filled the town square of Timisoara, chanting “Down with Ceausescu,” “Down with Communism,” Down with criminals” and “We will not be silent any longer.” Volume 5 -1989
On May 2, 1989, some 1200 young people gathered from many towns in Ukraine in the forest outside Kiev for a youth fellowship. More than 100 made public commitments to Christ as the Holy Spirit worked in the hearts of teenagers. At the end of the day as they headed home, the Christians decided to witness in the square across from the main train station in Kiev. Europe must be one of the most spiritually needy continents on earth. The secularization and paganisation of large sections of Europe is tragic. Yet there are surprisingly dynamic pockets of spiritual vitality and life amidst the general atheism and hedonism.
Volume 3 - 1989
A Russian pastor describes the problems still encountered under perestroika in the USSR: “Change is in the air and there are rumours of increasing freedom, but there has been no change in the laws on religion. For churches the situation varies from area to area — some officials are just as hostile as before and short-term arrests and fines are the result. At work Christians continue to have their wages docked and they don’t get the same extra benefits or bonus payments as other workers. Sometimes they are forced to work overtime at weekends etc., when otherwise they would be involved in church activities. Volume 3 - 1989
The pastor and deacon of the independent registered Baptist church in Brest, on the Soviet-Polish border, have sent an open letter to the Christians in the West, expressing their concern at the ways in which the registered All-Union Council of Evangelical Christians-Baptists is using funds raised from the sale of Bibles. The AUCECB receives 30 rubles for each Bible, and local leaders charge an additional 3-10 rubles to cover expenses in bringing the Bibles from Moscow. |
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"And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in Heaven and on earth.
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the End of the age.” Amen.” Matthew 28: 18-20
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the End of the age.” Amen.” Matthew 28: 18-20
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