Metro Voice News Celebrating Faith, Family & Community
Eastern European Mission fulfilled an unprecedented two million Bible requests across 36 nations in 2024, marking the most successful year in the ministry’s history. The organization has served this region for more than six decades, including Bibles through the Iron Curtain in its early years.
“We are grateful to God for what he has done through our donors’ generous giving in 2024,” President Bob Burckle said. “We look forward to continued growth as, despite these amazing numbers, the need still outweighs the provision.”
From a leader in Lithuania being miraculously healed and sharing God’s word with the nurse who attended him, seeing faith blossom in her life, to dozens of refugees cared for weekly through ministry efforts in Athens, Greece, to many baptized at partner summer camps, new stories come in every day of how God is working through Bibles being distributed throughout Eastern Europe.
“We are humbled to be a part of the amazing work that God is doing, as we celebrate every day the fact that His Word will accomplish its purposes,” Vice President Dirk Smith said. “Just imagine, if each Bible given means a new believer welcomed into the kingdom, which is always our prayer and aim, what joy these numbers bring to our hearts.”
Eastern European Mission was established in 1961 to provide Bibles and Bible-based materials throughout the former communist-bloc countries in Eastern Europe. Today, the ministry has expanded its reach significantly, with Ukraine Schools Receive Bibles. The organization publishes and prints Bibles and New Testaments, as well as teen Bibles, children’s Bibles and Bible activity books, distributing them through a large network of partner churches and organizations reaching more than 35 countries in 26 different languages. It is an accredited member of ECFA. To learn more about EEM, visit www.eem.org.
–Alan Goforth | Metro Voice
