Current Ministries in Estonia

Every Community for Christ (ECC) Teams

OMS' involvement in Estonia began in 1997. Currently, two ECC teams are working in Estonia. An ECC Methodist team in the southern Voru province, in the village of Varstu has a good work started. The second ECC team is a Russian speaking Baptist team in the city of Narva, where they are using soccer as a means to build relationships with the local young people. We praise God for what he's done through our ECC teams in 2006:

  • Teams: 2
  • Team members: 10
  • Decisions for Christ: 45
  • People in discipleship or lay-leadership training: 3
 

Estonian missionaries in national costumes together with a ministry team from the ethnic Udmurt people.

Baltic Methodist Theological Seminary

OMS also has a co-operation with the Baltic Methodist Theological Seminary (project #44815). Mark & Kai Nelson serve at the Seminary, providing ministry training for over 150 students from 10 denominations and 7 different countries. Students study in 3 different languages simultaneously: Estonian, Russian and English. The Baltic Seminary places great emphasis on practical ministry skills development, part of which includes short-term missionary internships among unreached indigenous ethnic groups in Siberia.

Reaching the Unreached Ethnic Groups of Siberia

In 2004, Baltic Seminary students, graduates and faculty launched the Missions and Evangelism Work Group under the arm of the Estonian Evangelical Alliance. Their goal is to see Estonian Christians supporting Estonian missionary work to the unreached ethnic groups of Siberia. It has become a nation wide movement with the active co-operation of numerous denominations and para-church organizations that support short and long term missionary work, Bible translation and the training of indigenous Christians for ministry among their own people. There is no greater tribute to the grace of God than to see the children of those who suffered in Siberian concentration camps returning to Siberia as ambassadors of the Gospel!

Equipping for the Great Commission

OMS' role, both through the ECC program and through co-operating with the Baltic Seminary is to give the Estonian Christians the skills and the opportunities they need so that they can fulfill the Great Commission among their own people and across the unreached vastness of Siberia.