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Church of the Nazarene missionaries Aleksei Shipovalov and Olga Druzhinina have made several important steps forward in establishing the presence of the Nazarene church in Latvia as they enter their second year as pioneer missionaries. In the fall they successfully registered a nonprofit ministry

Olga and Aleksei have long served the Church of the Nazarene from their home in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The couple worked with European Nazarene College in theological education, and Aleksei was also involved in their local church as a Sunday School teacher. It wasn’t until two years ago that they

Latvia was among the countries particularly hard hit by the global economic crisis that began in 2008, suffering from a high of more than 20 percent unemployment by 2010. Although that figure has fallen to about 9 percent last year, waves of emigration cost the country more than 600,000 of its