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Stetzer: Europe Needs You

Sometimes discussing Europe as a mission field feels like talking to Eskimos about global warming. How can the continent that developed the creeds, spawned the Reformation, and birthed modern missions itself be a mission field? Our friend Ed Stetzer nails it pretty well. ...Read More

Pentecostal Power

There was no perceptible Pentecostal movement in the Soviet Union before the 1920's. Ivan Voronaev was a Russian Baptist preacher who had fled persecution from the Tsarist regime. He experienced the power of the Holy Spirit in New York City, and after establishing a church there, felt called to return to his homeland as a missionary. He arrived in Odessa in 1921. By 1928 there were 350 Pentecostal churches with a membership of over seventeen thousand in the Odessa region and in Ukraine. ...Read More