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Summer
Missions
Missionary
Report
Annual
Meeting
Bible
Sunday
School
Estonian
Historical
Contact
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Summer
Missions
VOLUNTEER WORKERS IN TARTU
During the summer of 2000 several teams of volunteers
from North America constructed new AM broadcast facilities near
Tartu that are being used for Russian programming to surrounding
countries. The workers came from all across the United States
and Canada to construct a 2700 square foot transmitter building,
a 225 square foot antenna tuning unit building, and a
tall antenna tower.
Team members also had opportunities to minister
in local churches and with small groups.
Missionary's
Report
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Bible
Estonian
Ministries Study Bible Project
- Production and distribution of second edition
of Estonian Study Bible
- Improved text with corrections of study materials
for Pastors, Lay Workers, Believers and Inquirers
- Goal is Study Bibles for Estonian people Worldwide
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Sunday
School Materials - Printed Materials
- Helping
to prepare and distribute Gospel Literature and Sunday
Schools Materials.
- Publishing
Christian Books and Materials.
- In
1988 prepared and published jointly with Wycliffe and the
International Bible Society the first edition of the Estonian
Study Bible.
- Delivered
legally 20,000+ of these Study Bibles after obtaining
permit from the Kremlin to then Soviet occupied Estonia
- In
1990 prepared and delivered the first 100,000 Estonian
New Testaments and Psalms with study helps.
- Currently
Campus Crusade and the Gideons are using the ECM New Testament
text
- Contact
us for information on how to obtain other Christian Books,
Pamphlets, and Materials
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Short
Estonian Historical Outline
- 4000 - 3000 BC Finno - Ugrians / Estonians
begin to arrive
- 1st - 12th Centuries AD - Estonians well settled;
trade (foreign coins), farming (iron plows), communal organization,
fortified strongholds.
- 1030 - 1061 AD - Russians occupy Tartu
- About
1050 AD - Beginning of Estonian "Viking" era:
trade & plunder
- 1208
- 1560 AD - Ancient fight for freedom. Ends with occupation
by bishops, German Order & Danes
- 1560
AD - Russians, Danes & Poles
occupy land
- 1580 & 1629
AD - Swedes occupy N. Estonia and then entire country
- 1632 AD - Tartu University Established. First
secondary school
- 1710 - 1918 AD - 200 years of Czarist Empire
- 1869 AD - First Estonian Song Fest. National
awakening
- 1918 AD - At end of WW I Estonians declare
independence
- 1918 - 1920 AD - War of Independence
- 1918 - 1940 AD - Independent country
- 1940 - 1941 AD - Soviet occupation. Molotov
- Ribbentrop pact
- 1941 - 1944 AD - German Occupation
- 1944-1991 AD - Soviet occupation. Massive
influx of Russians
- 1988 AD - Singing Revolution; Human chain
from Tallinn to Vilnius (in Lithuania). Estonians declare
sovereignty.
- 1991 AD - Independent Again! Iceland first
to recognize sovereignty.
- 2004 AD - Estonia admitted into European Union
and NATO.
Politically
since August 1991
Estonia
is Independent and a Republic
- Parliament ( Riigikogu = State Assembly); One
chamber - 101 Members
- Political Parties; 7 or 8 in the Parliament.
No Communist Party.
- President elected by the Parliament
- Constitutional Referendum June 1992
- Elections September 1992 and March 1995
- Approximately 50 % of members, ex-communists
under new labels
Population
and Citizenship
- 30% Foreign born, non-Estonian, ethnically
Annual
Board Meeting
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April
13-14, 2007 Denver, Colorado
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