August 2025 Prayer Requests

Below, find the prayer concerns and requests from leaders of the Baltic Methodist Theological Seminary and the congregations in Estonia.

Dear friends,

Thank you so much for your faithful prayers for the Estonian Methodist Church!

We are so thankful to the Lord for a wonderful Summer Conference that we had just past weekend at Camp Gideon. About 160 people of all ages attended the conference, and at the closing service, we had over 200 people worshiping together. It was a blessed time of spiritual growth, wonderful worship, special prayer times, interesting seminars, and great programs for youth and children. We heard of wonderful testimonies of how God touched people’s lives. Perhaps the most moving was a testimony of a woman who did not want to live anymore and had been contemplating suicide. She came to the conference as a last resort and was so touched by the love and the presence of God, and her life was turned around. Praise the Lord! (see pictures below)

Please pray as many churches are making preparations for the fall programs, that our churches would be effective in preaching the Gospel, reaching the unchurched, and making disciples.

Please pray for a special evangelism event for young people on August 30th, that many young people come to know the Lord.

Thank you for your prayers and support for the ministry in Estonia!

God bless you!
Robert Tserenkov

Here are the Baltic Methodist Theological Seminary’s thanksgivings and prayer requests for August 2025:

Gratitude to God:

• For all who have faithfully prayed for and financially supported the Seminary;
• For the ongoing Funding the Future campaign, where every donated dollar is matched by Mt. Bethel Church;
• For the summer break in July, providing rest for staff and faculty.

Please Pray:

• For the staff and faculty as they prepare for the upcoming academic year;
• For new students who have applied or are still considering applying in the coming weeks;
• For Wes and Joy Griffin, who plan to teach during the opening session at Camp Gideon, August 27–30;
• For Rein Laaneser (IT and Information Technologist), whose mother recently passed away.

With gratitude,
Yours in Christ,
Laur Lilleoja

Pray for teenagers’ camps. Pray for safety, for relations, and most of all that God will touch everyone.

Pray for new congregation members, that their spiritual growth will continue. And the same applies to all others.

Pray for our pastors and their families.

Blessings!

Vilja Ventsel

Dear Friends,

Even though Summer is fully on, we´ve had a busy month in our small Church in Reeküla.

We had Tallinn´s Peeteli Rehabilitation Centre´s kids camp visiting us. Kids and most of their teachers are Russian-speaking non-Christians. We played with them, fed them, and held a short kids’ style worship service in Russian for them. Kids and their teachers loved our time together, and so did we. This was the second year they visited us. Last year, they held a Rehabilitation Centre´s youth camp in Saaremaa, and they came with the youth to visit us. They liked it so much that they came back this year, and we have established a good connection with them.

We also had another youth camp visiting us in July, the Adventist Church´s youth camp. It was a blessed time also.

And last Sunday we celebrated our Church´s 115th anniversary. Since we´ve had a busy year and Summer with many guests, we decided to keep the celebrations short and light. We had our new prayer partner Church´s pastor´s family from Viitka to visit and celebrate with us. We will go and visit them on the 17th of August to celebrate their 25th anniversary.

So we have a lot to be grateful for. 🙂

• Please pray for miracles in our Church family. We have some serious physical and mental health issues troubling some of our members and friends, and also for solutions to other worries our members face.
• Please pray that God would send us a youth worker and/or a youth leader. We do need constant help in our youth work, for I am not able to give as much attention to youth as they actually need.
• Please pray for our Sunday School teachers and families, as we prepare for the new school year in September.

With blessings and love
Lemme