Europe

Religion

Millions of Europeans profess no religion or are atheistic or agnostic. The largest non-confessional populations are found in Sweden, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, and France although most former communist countries have significant non-confessional populations. The rate of decline of Christians is accelerating. The most popular religions of Europe are Catholic 33.10 percent, Orthodox 19.96 percent, Protestant 9.24 percent, Muslim 5.09 percent, Unaffiliated 4.91 percent, and Anglican 3.54 percent. Many of the Christians in these percentages have no meaningful involvement with church life.

People

Europe’s ethnic diversity include Slavic 31.6 percent, Latin/Romance 29.4 percent, Germanic 24.8 percent, Finno-Ugric 2.9 percent, Turkic 2.4 percent, Greek 1.6 percent, Celtic 1.5 percent, other 2.1 percent (Middle Eastern, Asian, Caribbean, African). There are 269 indigenous languages to Europe.

How you can pray

• Pray for continent-wide revival; the church in general has lost the younger generation.
• Pray for a return to relevant biblical theology, preaching and lifestyle; liberal theology has spiritually crippled the Protestant mainline denominations.
• Pray for Holy Spirit inspiration, innovation and faith for growth in the 21st Century.

Nate Hughes: Czech Republic

Email: nhughes.p3@josiahventure.com
Blog: natedoggblogg.blogspot.com
Birthday: July 16
Agency: Josiah Ventures
Address: Na Skalce 328
Chotebuz 735 61
Czech Republic
Nate serves with Josiah Ventures, ministering to the young people in the Czech Republic through English camps. His role includes leading teams throughout the Czech, helping to unite them and giving them spiritual guidance. He helps to organize and run camps, builds relationships with the youth leaders, speaks at camps and provides training for the American groups that go to serve. Nate began his cross-cultural career from Scottsdale Bible in 2005.

Tomas and Ester Kriska: Slovakia

Ester Kriska is a national missionary with IN Network in Slovakia. She is a pastor’s wife and has been involved with women’s leadership for the last 10 years. Her ministries include AWANA for children and young teens, youth club outreach, preparing and running the English summer camps for youth and children, discipleship groups, women’s Bible study groups, Sunday school for children, creating Sunday school curriculum, establishing Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon groups, and much community involvement with various musical programs. Ester and Tomas are pioneers in Christian outreach in the town of Lucenec and are directly involved in helping to create the new Christian Ministry Center (3Pe) that Scottsdale Bible Church has been helping to support with Enlarge Your Heart to Reach the Lost funds. The Kriska’s have been associated with Scottsdale Bible since 2000.
Email: esterkriskovaz@znam.sk
Anniversary: July 4
Birthdays: Tomas–August 5
Ester–January 14
John–November 21, 1987
Noemi–April 16, 1989
Jacob–December 18, 1991
Agency: IN Network
Address: Cernysenskeho 9
Bratislova, petrzalaka
Slovakia 85101

Niall and Tawnya McSheffrey: Croatia

Niall and Tawnya minister with Josiah Venture. Their goal is to mobilize the local church to evangelize and disciple youth and to develop a model youth ministry in Zagreb. They are actively involved in training youth workers, regular evangelical outreach in local high schools, and connecting each group to a local church youth group and English camps. Niall and Tawnya have three children, Connor, Brendan and Christina. They began their cross-cultural career from Grace Community Church in 1995 and became associated with Scottsdale Bible the same year.
Email: nmcsheffrey@josiahventure.com
tmcsheffrey@josiahventure.com
Blog: www.nextgenincroatia.com
Anniversary: November 20
Birthdays: Niall–June 11
Tawnya–February 7
Connor–July 5, 1991
Brendan–November 30, 1996
Christina–September 23, 1997
Agency: Josiah Venture
U.S. Address: PO Box 4317
Wheaton, IL 60189-4317
Field Address: Istarska 1
10000 Zagreb
Croatia

Mariano and Fanny Pineda: Spain

Mariano and Fanny work in Madrid, Spain, under Agape (the European branch of Campus Crusade for Christ) in a ministry called Aventura, to help reaching out to the four million teenagers of Spain. They work as youth leaders in their local church, train youth leaders from other churches and are part of the Leadership Team of the national staff of Aventura. They are also associated with the The Christian and Missionary Alliance in Spain in the area of Youth Ministries. Both worked with youth in their home country of Argentina from 1994 to 2000. They became associated with Scottsdale Bible in 2001.
Email: marianofanny@yahoo.com
Anniversary: October 10
Birthdays: Marian–August 7
Fanny–October 1
Agency: Agape—Campus Crusade for Christ
Address: c/o Balandro 3, 3D
28042, Madrid
Spain

Pavel and Jane Sinko: Slovakia

Pavel and Jane Sinko are Slovakians who are ministering in their own country. Pavel has been an Evangelist with the IN Network (IN) for the past 11 years and the Executive Director of IN Slovakia since 1997. He is involved in church planting in Velky Kritis and Cinobana, ministry to the Gypsy community. In the summer he directs English camps for children and teenagers. Jane is leading the Mothers Club, a ministry for mothers with small children. Pavel and Jane are the parents of three children. They became associated with Scottsdale Bible in 2000.
Email: sinko@lc.psg.sk and inslovakia@stonline.sk
Anniversary: November 20
Birthdays: Pavel–August 17
Jane–September 5
David–September 26, 1995
Eunice–March 19, 1997
Ester–October 10, 1999
Agency: IN Network
Address: Ticha 4
984 01 Lucened
Slovakia

Ota and Renata Vozeh: Austria

In 1993, Ota and Renata joined International Needs to utilize their gifts and fulfill God’s call on their lives. Since April of 1996, Ota has been the Coordinator for the International Need’s ministries, assisting the National Christian workers in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and adding new responsibilities as a coordinator for all of Central-Eastern Europe. International Need’s mission is to assist the national Christians in their work in their own countries by any means available. Ota and Renata relocated to Austria in the spring of 1999 and work in Central and Eastern Europe. The Vozeh’s became associated with Scottsdale Bible in 1971.
Email: ovozeh@aol.com
Anniversary: August 4
Birthdays: Otakar–March 7
Renata–August 1
Agency: International Needs
Address: Postfach 95
4-2500 Baden
Austria