Dear Friends!
Thank you for your continued friendship, prayers and financial giving to
StreetCry! We are so thankful for you.
I want to apologize for the huge lapse in writing. It has now been 2 months
since we opened "The Living Room student cafe" here in Tallinn. As many of you know, it was 14 months in the planning, and sometimes we
felt it would be forever before we got up and running. But by the start of the school year this September, it finally happened. During that
14 months we made many new friends and a number of people who wanted to help with our project. Because many pieces of equipment were
donated by local companies and ministries, as well as by Swedish churches, coupled with the donations we had been receiving - everything
came together.
Most of the people who are coming to the cafe are University students,
which are our target group. They are the most atheistic and agnostic age group in the country and we are expecting to see God change that! We
are right across the street from a music school, very near a drama school, business school and English school, as well as Tallinn University. So, it
has been very exciting to be open for them.
Our goal of course is to show them the love of God and to see them come to
know Him by repentance and acknowledging that He is Lord and Savior. From what we understand, nothing has changed regarding that for the last
2000 years! We also want to see young believers raised up and go into ministry as we saw in Russia.
So far we have had one person come to know Him in the cafe, and we have
been able to pray for several people who needed healing and our staff
have given some accurate words of knowledge to people who have come by. We also
have a room for people to display their artwork or photography and share a bit about their life. Our first display and Christian testimony was by
Aaron Overstreet and has been followed by an Estonian photographer. We are
also having live bands or solo musicians on the weekend.
To put it mildly, we have been quite busy learning the ropes of a full
fledged coffee house that serves meals and has to pass rigorous health
department checks. Up until now our cafes have been free food and coffee and
ministering to a very different group of young people. But here and now we
are convinced that these are the ones He has called us to. We are trying to give them
very good food at the cheapest prices in town, and to have a safe and
peaceful atmosphere where students can study, relax or sit and talk. Four different
people have come up and said, "I feel like I am home when I am here". We
want people to truly feel God's love for them, and know that we accept and care
about them.
Now that a few of us have learned the ropes, the next step is to find a
couple of people to help with some of the cooking and serving, so we can do
more evangelism and train some others to do evangelism as well. We also have a
tremendous need for young potential missionaries and especially those
that have musical giftings, artistic gifts, prophetic giftings or those
who plain love people and love to share their faith. If you feel called to join
us, please let us know. If you have friends looking for their place in the Kingdom who have a
burden for missions or souls - please pass this newsletter on!
Besides running the cafe, we are continuing to have worship night once a
week - most of the time on Saturday night. We have experienced a very
strong presence of God at the meetings, and our desire is for His presence to
remain here and for the unsaved to encounter Him.
As usual, we will continue to have our Christmas feed-ins here in Estonia
as well as in Russia.
If you feel led to join us, our prayer needs are:
- for a worship team who love Him and are dedicated to seeing worship restored to the church in it's fullness.
- for an evangelism team who love to witness and win souls
- for a revival and wakening among Estonian youth
- for favor with the cafe
- for favor with our visas
- for finances to take care of ministry expenses
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