Founded in 1961, Eastern European Missions prints and distributes free Bibles to Eastern Europe and surrounding nations, delivering them to youth camps, schools, refugee centers and other places in need of the Holy Scripture.
The organization began when a small group of missionaries started sneaking Bibles into the former Soviet Union and has continued providing access to Scripture in seemingly unreachable places.
EEM recently delivered over 225,000 children’s Bibles to North Macedonia after the nation’s government, having heard about EEM‘s work, gave the group permission to deliver Bibles in the region. The group’s Bibles for Kids fundraising campaign made the donation possible.
The government heard that EEM delivered 650,000 bibles to public schools in Croatia last year, with the Bibles carried to the schools via nine semi-trailer trucks.
EEM President Bob Burckle told The Christian Post that when the organization began, the team was lucky if they could deliver a few hundred to a couple of thousand Bibles a year. But within the last few years, the group has grown and delivered 1.5 million Bibles in over 20 languages to more than 30 countries last year.
Burckle said most of the group’s funding comes from individuals and churches. Around a thousand churches in the United States currently support the group’s mission.