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		<title>Is There Really a Youth Revival in Europe?</title>
		<link>https://edminsters.com/2026/01/is-there-really-a-youth-revival-in-europe/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 13:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After one of my presentations on Ukraine when I was in the US, a pastor I met for the first time asked me, &#8220;Why do you think North American Christians are responsible for helping this situation? Isn&#8217;t this a European problem? Isn&#8217;t there a revival among Western European youth?&#8221; I answered but he wasn&#8217;t convinced. &#8230; <a href="https://edminsters.com/2026/01/is-there-really-a-youth-revival-in-europe/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Is There Really a Youth Revival in Europe?</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ukraine &#8211; Why Now?</title>
		<link>https://edminsters.com/2025/10/ukraine-why-now/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 11:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[October 16, 14:20 (Rapla)]]></description>
		
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		<title>Gearing up for Ukraine</title>
		<link>https://edminsters.com/2025/10/bucha-ukraine-2025/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[October 9, 18:34 (Rapla) I&#8217;ve been finalizing plans with my colleague and friend Fyodor Rachynets for my upcoming visit to Kiev. I&#8217;ll arrive on the morning of the 20th and leave on the evening of the 24th. During my visit I&#8217;ll be meeting with the leaders of the Bethany Baptist Church in Bucha where Fyodor &#8230; <a href="https://edminsters.com/2025/10/bucha-ukraine-2025/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Gearing up for Ukraine</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Assessing Congregational Readiness</title>
		<link>https://edminsters.com/2025/03/assessing-congregational-readiness-for-ministry/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite ministry activities here in Estonia is participating in congregational consultations for the churches within our ECB Church Union. The churches our team consults vary in their structural choices, size and situation. We have consulted both rural and urban churches, both traditional and &#8220;emerging&#8221; churches and both small and moderately sized churches &#8230; <a href="https://edminsters.com/2025/03/assessing-congregational-readiness-for-ministry/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Assessing Congregational Readiness</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>2025 Song Festival Reflections</title>
		<link>https://edminsters.com/2025/03/2025-song-festival-reflections/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2025 18:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In July Lea and I will once again be attending Estonia&#8217;s National Song Festival, which is one of the most astounding cultural events you may ever see. The festival runs from Thursday to Sunday if you include the dance festival which precedes the song festival. The song festival itself begins with a parade starting at &#8230; <a href="https://edminsters.com/2025/03/2025-song-festival-reflections/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">2025 Song Festival Reflections</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>2024 Support Tour</title>
		<link>https://edminsters.com/2024/09/2024-support-tour-slideshow/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2024 10:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Kallas on the Cost of Isolation</title>
		<link>https://edminsters.com/2024/02/kallas-on-the-cost-of-isolation/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2024 11:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Estonia]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[https:news.err.ee/1609256361/kallas-in-munich-if-us-isolates-itself-it-will-eventually-cost-more]]></description>
		
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		<title>In the Jaws of the Beast</title>
		<link>https://edminsters.com/2024/02/in-the-jaws-of-the-beast/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2024 10:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Estonia]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This weekend in Bible School we taught on apocolyptic literature in the intertestamental period with a focus on the visions of Daniel (chapters 7-12). The vision of the four beasts in chapter 7 is explained later in that chapter as identifying four kingdoms. Like everything in Bible interpretation, the identities of the kingdoms is debated. &#8230; <a href="https://edminsters.com/2024/02/in-the-jaws-of-the-beast/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">In the Jaws of the Beast</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Discovering the &#8220;Victory Hymns&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://edminsters.com/2023/10/discovering-the-victory-hymns/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2023 07:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday I visited a congregation in the southern portion of our region to preach and spend time getting to know the church a bit better. Attendance to the service that morning was very small: basically the pastor and his grown children and three other parishioners. I brought along my guitar and had prepared a &#8230; <a href="https://edminsters.com/2023/10/discovering-the-victory-hymns/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Discovering the &#8220;Victory Hymns&#8221;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Proposing Free-Use Chapels</title>
		<link>https://edminsters.com/2023/07/the-cornerstone-society-of-free-use-chapels/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2023 15:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Nurgakivi Selts proposes a network of simple, free-use chapels across rural Estonia, providing a space for worship, service, and temporary shelter, with a focus on monastic values and Christ-centered spirituality.]]></description>
		
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