Matt on December 5th, 2007

All summer long we have been hearing rumblings from the East about imbalanced portrayals of the Russian government at the hands of the Baltic states and unfair treatment of Russian minorities. A recent mission prayer calendar issued by my own denomination even indicated that mistreatment of Russian minorities in the Baltics may well amount to [...]

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Matt on September 12th, 2007

You can download this letter in PDF format here:2007 Summer Prayer Letter
Folks, we are very pleased to tell you that the culmination of our four years of study and preparation is just around the corner. In this letter we would like to highlight a few of the ways that we can see our ministry coming [...]

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Matt on May 5th, 2007

Estonia has made world news lately as the relocation of a soviet-era bronze war memorial prompted riots by Russians in the capital city of Tallinn. I’ve culled some good articles from the internet to shed some light on the meaning behind these disturbing events.
Here is some brief background. The war memorial is a bronze statue [...]

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Matt on March 11th, 2007

Dear Friends,
Our intention for some time now has been to send you quarterly prayer letters and this no doubt would have made it much easier for us to communicate our experiences in depth. But we have been so incessantly busy this year that writing and publishing a prayer letter has been relegated to the bottom [...]

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