January 2026 Prayer Requests

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

Dear Andy,

I hope you and your family had a wonderful Christmas! And thank you so much for keeping the prayer requests going! We truly appreciate your hard work!

My prayer requests for January:

Dear friends,

I would like to wish all of you a very blessed new year of 2026! Thank you for your faithful prayers for the Estonian Methodist Church!

We are so thankful to the Lord for the wonderful Christmas time! In Estonia, a lot of people come to church on Christmas, and this gives us an opportunity to share the love of Christ with them. Please pray that those who heard the Gospel would open their hearts to the Lord and come to faith.

In 2026, the Methodist Church in Estonia hopes to elect a bishop. The election will take place in March, and the ordination service is on June 21st. Please pray for the Lord’s guidance and blessing in this important process for the church.

On a personal note, I will be on a sabbatical till January 24. So, please pray for rest and spiritual renewal during this time.

Thank you for your prayers, and may the Lord bless all of you!

Robert Tserenkov

Dear friends,

As this year is coming to an end, our hearts are filled with gratitude. We are especially thankful for our youth leaders. Our Youth Leaders Appreciation Gala went wonderfully — it was such a meaningful and encouraging evening where we were able to share how this past year has looked in different cities through our youth work. It was truly a time of strengthening and building for all of us.

Now we would like to ask for your prayers as we prepare for our upcoming youth winter camp. The camp will take place at Vodja School, where several of our previous camps have also been held. Please pray for God’s protection over the entire camp — that the enemy would not come near and that the time we spend together would be deeply blessed.

Pray especially for our young people: that they would sense God moving in their lives, that hearts would be changed, and that each of us would grow closer to Him through this time together.
Thank you for your prayers, support, and faithfulness throughout this season. We are truly grateful to you.

With gratitude and blessings,
Liidia

Blessed Christmas time and a happy New Year!

Pray for youth winter camp, that they will be blessed, touched by Spirit and that all will be safe!

Pray for unity in church. Pray for God’s will for our congreation will be seen and done.

Pray for our pastors and their families.

Blessings,

Vilja Ventsel

Dear Friends,

As we enter the new year, we pray for God’s grace, love, and guidance over your lives.

We celebrated Christmas together with our local villagers in December, and it was a really blessed time. Let us continue praying that God would continue His good work in locals´ lives throughout this new year.

I recorded morning spiritual devotions for a full week on Estonian National Radio, which were released in December. I have received some messages from non-Christians from Estonia, and some even from other countries where Estonians live and listen to that radio station on the web. They said those devotions encouraged them and touched their hearts. Let us pray together that God would continue His good work in them as well, and that their hearts and lives would be changed forever.

January is a very ecumenical month in Estonia. We have ecumenical services and meetings throughout January all over Estonia. So we will meet every night from the 11th to the 18th of January with the pastors, priests, and congregation members from all the different Churches in Saaremaa Island. We will have ecumenical pastors gathering that week, and we will have Sunday service together on the 18th with our good friends from Leisi Baptist Church. Let us pray together that it be a blessed time when we feel real, deep Unity in Him and build lasting relationships with each other and with God’s kingdom in Saaremaa.

Please continue praying for our congregation members´ mental and physical health issues and that God would give us more capacity to visit and minister to our older members who have to live alone during this cold and dark Estonian winter.

Have a blessed year, dear friends, and thank you so much for being with us! You are a blessing and a great support!

Lemme

Hello, dear brothers and sisters who are serving in prayers and thoughts.

I wish you all God’s grace, blessings, and heavenly provision!

• We are sincerely grateful to God for every special event of the Christmas season.
• We thank God for family, congregation teams, and the season of grace.
• Let’s pray for the health of Enno, Leena, and Tiit! They all need a miracle!
• Let’s pray for the events of the year 2026 into God’s hands.
• This summer, the Wilmore Free Methodist Church is coming to the Võru congregation. Let’s pray that
• God guides the teams and preparations.
• Let’s pray that God blesses and protects this year the pastors of the Võru, Viitka, Räpina, and Kärsa congregations, their families, and workers.

I thank God for our pastoral team: Enno Sarik (pastor of Viitka), Andrus Kask (pastor of Kärsa and Räpina), and me.

I pray for all of you the Jabez prayer:

“Almighty God, bless us and enlarge our territory! Let your hand be with us, and keep us from harm so that we will be free from pain in Jesus name. Amen!“

Blessed 2026!

NB! “One of my most special moments during the Christmas season was the Kungla orchestra’s service with music at the Võru congregation. I have played in this orchestra for 36 years. Recently, we faced such a difficult situation that we feared the group would come to an end. Merlin and I prayed together. Every prayer counts. God brought solutions that we could not see. I invited them to the church for my 45th anniversary as friends. They came and played. Then they expressed a desire to come back again during Advent. Every prayer counts!”

Ele

(L to R: Andrus Kask, Ele Paju, Enno Sarik)

Greetings from Children Center Lighthouse, and we wish you a blessed New Year!

We are grateful to God for everyone who has supported the children’s center in various ways throughout this year. We pray that God will fulfill all their needs!

Unfortunately, to this day, we have not yet received a response from the Social and Health Care Department regarding whether they will support us next year. Their funding covers almost half of the children’s center’s budget, and without this support, we would be unable to continue our work.
We thank God for Teri DeWendt from Asbury Church, who came to help us during the first week of December. She was helpful during the busy pre-holiday period, helping in the kitchen and doing crafts with the children.

We are also grateful to the Norwegian mission group, which has been our partner for many years and, according to tradition, visited the children’s center before Christmas.
We continue to ask for prayers for our cook, Siiri, who has been ill for two months, and it is still unclear when she will be able to return to work in January. This situation has been difficult for other staff members.

We thank God for the children’s center Christmas party and for the organization that prepared Christmas gifts for the children according to their wishes. Our church superintendent, Robert Tšerenkov, shared a Christmas message with the children and all the guests.
God has truly been gracious to us, and we trust that He will continue to care for us in the future!

Thank you so much for standing with us in prayer throughout this year!

May God richly bless you all!

Veronika Fjodorova