cee hope for every heart
Hope4cee.org is the Southern Baptist International Mission Board's Web site for the people groups of Central and Eastern Europe.
This area is defined by the lingering shadow of communism — the oppression of spirit and repression of freedoms that robbed people of their identity and dignity. The residual effect of this passing regime now permeates society as a sense of hopelessness. A cavernous void exists in the very soul of the people that longs to be filled — a void left by an atheistic system that imprisoned its inhabitants in demeaning commonality. Though the population had longed for political freedom, it arrived with a sense of disillusionment.
The road back to true freedom will require more than a new government, it requires hope. We, the missionaries working among the peoples of Central and Eastern Europe, are working throughout this vast land — from Greece to Finland, Poland to Siberia — with one goal only — hope for every heart, a church-planting movement for every people.