October 2024

The Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans (CEEB) geographical region encompasses the northern part of Central Europe, including Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. It also touches Romania in the east before turning south to the Balkan countries, including Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece, and Turkey.
In 1996, about a year before he went to be with the Lord, Brother Lee had a time of fellowship with the graduates of the Full-time Training in Anaheim. During this time he told the graduate trainees that if they desired to serve the Lord full time, the need was twofold: first, in the United States and, second, in Russia and the Eastern European countries.

Even though some saints had been faithfully laboring in several of the countries in this geographical region (e.g., Albania, Greece, and others) since the early 1990s, the region itself came more into focus in the spring of 2000. At that time the brothers in the blending fellowship, faithful to the Lord and to Brother Lee’s burden, felt that the time was right to complete his leading to go to Eastern Europe.

As a result of this fellowship, a group of five brothers were sent to visit seven Eastern European countries in early May of 2000. Their goal was to assess the needs and the potential for expanding the Lord’s move in each country.

Beginning in Romania, they traveled to Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, the former Eastern Germany, and finally to Poland. At the subsequent Memorial Day conference and the Summer Training, these brothers gave reports on what they saw and began to sound the call for saints to rise up and go to Eastern Europe to spread the truths of the Lord’s recovery.

Today there are approximately 700 adult saints in the eleven countries of the geographical region of the CEEB. These saints are meeting in 34 local churches and are endeavoring to faithfully give the Lord the cooperation He needs and desires for the carrying out of His move in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans before the end of this age.

For nearly 70 years the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic composed one country, Czechoslovakia, a country of two nations and two official languages. Some European linguistic authorities still recognize Slovak and Czech as the two closest Slavic languages, requiring practically no need of translation when used in mutual communication.

The current population of the Czech Republic is a little over 10 million, and the population of Slovakia, about 5.5 million. Today there are three lampstands in the Czech Republic and two lampstands in Slovakia, with approximately 50 local saints in each country. In the past 20 years, 19 saints from Slovakia and the Czech Republic have graduated from the FTT, and three are currently in attendance.

In 1996 we began to translate the ministry from English into Czech and Slovak, and that work continues to this day. At present a total of 140 books and Life-studies are available in these languages. In addition to the ministry books, most of the up-to-date speaking given during the “seven feasts” is made available to the saints in both countries in the form of outlines, morning revivals, and translated recordings of the spoken messages.

Having this as a strong foundation of our translation work, we feel that now is a good time to start the translation of the Recovery Version into Czech and Slovak. In 2024 the fellowship concerning the burden to translate the New Testament began with the brothers in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans (CEEB). This fellowship continued with some of the brothers bearing the responsibility for the work in Europe, and eventually with the brothers in the LSM office. As a result, the leading was to create one team of Czech and Slovak translators to work together and produce two versions of the New Testament simultaneously.

Please pray with us while we progress in our fellowship, coordination, and practical preparation for this project to begin in the summer of 2025.

Any church or individual who has a burden to make a one-time or recurring donation for this project can give in the following ways:

For offerings in US dollars, please go to:
LME’s website: https://lordsmove.org/offerings.html
Please designate the gift to: “Czech and Slovak NT”

For offerings in Euros, please use:
Account name: Prud
IBAN: SK3811000000002620753192
SWIFT or BIC: TATRSKBX (fill blanks with Xs)
Please designate the gift to: “Czech and Slovak NT”

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