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Rick and Karen Sawatzky

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Rick and Karen will be serving alongside our MB churches in Lithuania, including the 180 Degree Church and Free Christian Church in Vilnius. Among other activities, they host various groups in their home for prayer, discussion and encouragement. Rick also speaks in various schools and churches in Vilnius and elsewhere in Lithuania.

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Germany Vision Tour: May 19 - May 28, 2025

Dortmund Church Planting

PräsentKirche is a new church-planting project in Dortmund, Germany, that aims to live out the parable of the wedding...

Growing Central Asia

Workers in Central Asia are providing a meeting space for a local congregation and helping support those in need...

East German Church Planting

Will you help bring the Gospel to the least reached in Germany?

Multiply Europa

This project gives leadership and coordination to Multiply initiatives in eight European countries.

Light in the East

Light in the East (LITE) is a ministry which facilitates kid’s camps and the building of playgrounds for children in...

Give the Fuss to God

In the beginning it was so dry. We were sad that our ministry was not working, that we were not reaching our...

Stepping into Other Cultures

“It was a double culture shock,” Johanna shared. “I came to Germany knowing the language but not the culture. It was...

Why 500 Years of Anabaptism Matters

Vision for Mission - June 2025

The Lies we Believe

It was getting dark outside, and I was sitting alone at home. I wanted to be with the team, but I needed a moment for...

Give the Fuss to God

In the beginning it was so dry. We were sad that our ministry was not working, that we were not reaching our...

Celebrations in Heaven

Vision for Mission - September 2024

The Blocked Pipe

Something had to be done. For weeks, the water in our bathroom sink had been draining more and more slowly, and now...

Milly, the Runaway

We had just finished settling the children when my colleague suddenly asked, “Where is Milly?”

Pritzkaus Prepare for Potsdam

In 2000, we returned to Germany after studying for four years at Columbia Bible College in Abbotsford, BC, Canada. At...

Blue Stains and God’s Grace

“Johanna, Johanna, the paint has spilled!” The girl who met me on the basement stairs was distraught, and my heart...

What About the Demons?

She first reached out to our church in Dortmund via Instagram. The message read, “Hello, I am homeless. But I trust...

Teamwork in Dortmund

A new church in Dortmund was a bold vision. The German city was known as a place where churches were in steep...

When Spring Comes Again

She had just received news that her sixteen-year-old daughter was trapped in Mariupol and her son, a soldier, had...

Ask God Which Town

In 2006, Ivana (not her real name) and her husband moved with their five children from Germany to Canada, where they...

When the Sent are Sent Away

Kateryna Oliferovski was completing a church internship in Dortmund, Germany, when the war in her Ukrainian homeland...

Drawing the Divine

It was already half past six, and the basement was uncomfortably cool despite the heating being turned up. I shivered...

Making Things Possible

My friend Viki works at a kiosk next to the subway station here in Dortmund. One Tuesday after work, I spontaneously...

Plugged In

It is just after 4:00 PM on a Friday, and I am out on the streets in Dortmund. I am glad to finish work early today,...

Radical Transformation in Central Asia

One of our global workers in Central Asia related to us this story of a passionately devout Muslim who came to faith...

Goal

David was shy, until he scored his first goal.

Modeling Love in a Climate of Fear

The refugee crisis is not over. In many ways, we are only just beginning to see the effects, and the fruit, of this...

On Fire

Meet Arghun, an elderly Mongolian woman who was transformed by God. This heart-warming story shows how acts of...

Paul & Sara Raugust

This couple is working alongside a local Mennonite church in France to catalyze spiritual growth, whole-life...

Johann Matthies

Johann serves as Multiply's Regional Team Leader for Europe and Central Asia, resourcing Multiply workers and...

Marcela & David - C0650

Marcela and her husband David work alongside a local French Mennonite church, doing pre-evangelistic activities,...

Alex & Carla Suderman

This couple is serving on a church-planting team in Dortmund. As they live on mission, their passion is to share the...

George & Nicoleta

George and Nicoleta are discipling Central Asian students at two universities in Lithuania and Moldova, where young...

Walter & Ina Reimer

Walter and Ina are leading a church planting team in Dortmund, Germany, with a focus on community outreach among new...

Heinrich Rempel

Heinrich and Annie provide mentoring and coaching to church planters and missionaries in Europe and Central Asia.

Johanna Neudorf

Johanna facilitates training and deployment of short-term TREK mission teams sent to serve with the church in Dortmund.

Benni & Franzi Hermann

Benni and Franzi are serving on the church-planting team in Dortmund, Germany. Their vision is for the church to...

B & C - C0775

B & C have been sent by the MB conference in Colombia to serve on a team in Central Asia.

Jakob and Alexandra Ferber

Jakob and Alexandra are church planters in Treuchtlingen/Bavaria.

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