Eastern European Mission

https://www.eem.org

On October 5th 2025 Jim Black visited our church and gave us an update on their progress this year. Click HERE to watch our Sunday Worship Service in which Jim provides his update.

  • Our Spring campaign to provide 620,000 youth and children’s Bibles was a great success! Thanks to God’s provision and the partnership of some amazing young people, youth groups, churches, and individual partners, our “Bibles for Kids” goal was met at the end of June, and represented an increase of almost 10% over last year. Praise God!
  • In May our US-based team traveled to Eastern Europe to visit with ministry partners and to hear of how God is at work in so many different ways in so many different regions. We returned refreshed and re-energized to share more about what we see God doing! Our next newsletter- which you’ll be receiving soon- and upcoming podcasts will have more info and stories from the trips. I can tell you God is opening some amazing doors!
  • In July our team met at our office in Hurst, TX to pray, plan, and prepare for the coming Fall season, already looking to be our busiest yet!
  • In Vienna, our European team has been working harder than ever. They completed 91 publishing projects and recorded a near-record distribution for the first half of the year.
  • Across Europe requests continue to come in. In Ukraine, despite the war (indeed, perhaps because of it) requests for Bibles and bible-based material is at an all time high! Fully 20% of our distribution year-to-date has been in the Ukraine region!
  • On Sept. 1st we will kick off the annual “HOPE” campaign! This year we have the opportunity to meet requests for over one million Bibles from all over Eastern Europe and neighboring nations! This is more than ever! We are excited about the theme of Lamentations 3 and the unfailing mercies of God that are new every morning! We believe this is a message the world needs to hear and we are excited to share it! If your congregation is interested in having a “million BIBLE Sunday” this Fall… let’s talk!

Thank you for your partnership with us and for your continued support of this work! We sincerely want your congregation to feel a part of this work, because you are! If I can come provide a fuller update with your leadership or mission team, encourage the congregation, OR to just answer a question, please let me know!

Blessings on your ministry,

Jim