From 1918 through 1989, the communist government of the Soviet Union promoted state atheism, banning God and the Bible in all of the countries they controlled or influenced. For the last 10 years, however, the countries of the former Soviet Union have been requesting that a non-profit group, Eastern European Mission (EEM) place Bibles and biblical literature in their public schools.

How EEM Began

In 1961, six couples from Abilene Christian University in Texas moved to Vienna, Austria with the goal of setting up a base of operations for smuggling Bibles into the Soviet Union. This group of Christians printed Bibles in different languages and utilized a variety of methods to send the materials behind the Iron Curtain. In 1974, the group purchased a four story building in Vienna which was used to house two large presses on the ground floor and was utilized as a church, offices and an apartment for the missionaries.

By the time the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, millions of Bibles had been smuggled into the Soviet Union. At that time, EEM expanded their printing operations to include local print shops inside the disbanded Soviet Union; by 2007, they were using 16 different locations. This not only gave the organization more flexibility and saved money but helped the local economies, too.

Bibles for Russia

In the early 1990s, a group of Christian teachers went to the Siberian state of Altai where they taught the Bible in university libraries using Russian translators. Some time later, Dr. Vladimir Skovorodnikov, the Minister of Education for the Altai region, approached EEM asking them to create a morals and character curriculum that could be used by 436,000 public school children from kindergarten to the twelfth grade. He stated that the “Bible should be the foundation to bring up the next generation of Russian children.”

EEM developed a program consisting of 10 Bible stories translated into Russian which was placed, at no cost, in all of Altai’s public schools followed by Bibles, a Beginner’s Bible and a Newcomer’s Bible, which was designed to teach the teachers. Since 1998, Dr. Skovorodnikov has worked with EEM to place similar materials at no charge into public schools in the states of Tomsk, Novosibirsk and Omsk, with a combined student population of approximately one million.

Bibles for Ukraine

In 2004, Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko announced his Ethics of Faith Initiative and charged the Ministry of Education to develop a special course to teach biblical ethics. The initiative has not been officially acted on by the country’s Parliament but several Ukrainian school regions have begun implementing the plan to provide character training on their own.

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