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Commonwealth of Independent States

Freddie & Esperanza Steenkamp

We have been in full-time ministry for 31 years are currently the visionary leaders of a multi-cultural church assembly in Nelspruit Mpumalanga, South Africa. We often use the slogan to sum up our heart: “Loving the church, blessing the nations!”

We have a passion for the nations and have been in partnership with World Mission Centre since 2011. The Live School ministry inspired me to connect with Russian church leaders to mobilize them and their local churches to reach unreached people groups not only in Russia but to many countries of the world!

South Africa and Russia are both a part of the BRICS partnership of countries, and, as such, there is a great openness for South Africans to visit and do business in Russia. This is a privilege many other nationalities have never had. We have formed partnerships with Russian, Siberian, Belarusian, Latvian, and Armenian churches to reach and disciple unreached communities with the good news of the gospel!

I believe Live School is one of the most powerful and practical tools to reach and teach believers in the small villages of Russia who have a powerful part to play in the great commission but who are often forgotten and left behind by the global church.

Come and join us in this adventure and experience firsthand the fulfillment of Hudson Taylor’s prophetic word spoken over every Christian in the Russian world!

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Blogs, Stories and testimonies from the Commonwealth of independent Sates (CIS) Region

Launching Live School in Mongolia

It was a rainy day when we landed in Mongolia. As we drove from the airport located just outside the capital of Ulaanbaatar it was difficult to fathom that 85% of the countries population live in one enormous city.I have never seen so much green grasslands void of any...

The One Year for Jesus Story

About three years ago myself and Pastor Anatoli talked about the “One Year for Jesus” evangelism teams. Specifically, their challenges of discipling the people they reached from town to town after they left to go to another city! 

The Mikhailovka Story

70 Live School units have been taken into the region and 32 schools have started. In total there are 308 schools that have started and there are a total of 393 units in the field, including those that have started and those who still need to start.

Upcoming trip to Russia

Upcoming trip to Russia

4th -14th APRIL 2016 -SIBERIA From the 4th till 14th of April we will travel from one village to another, from one city to another to meet as many students, facilitators and pastors from all the Live Schools ever started in the regions east of Lake Baikal and Irkustk...

A personal journey back to Ukraine

My short journey through Ukraine became a very personal one, very quickly. We lived in this nation for eight years and it is hard to see what the conflict has done and is doing to the nation. In Ukraine we have had Live Schools in many different cities, towns, and...

Armenia: Called for the nations!

Armenia: Called for the nations!

In the picture: A group of Armenian young people gathering on a large world map to pray for the nations. This took place on the last national missions conference we participated in just outside Yerevan. In my walk with the Armenian Church and her people I discovered...