A Much Needed Thanks!

Hello All!

       I have failed as a blogger as you can see and stopped blogging about halfway through my internship. God moved in Estonia in many ways. I am still realizing just how much he has worked in me from this summer. Its crazy to think that it has already been four months since I came back. I still feel like I just got home yesterday, but I also have a very bad sense of time when it comes to months and days.
         First I would like to thank everyone who prayed for me and our team this summer. Your efforts through prayer really did affect our camps this summer.  God opened peoples hearts to wanting to know who the Lord is. Which is crazy to hear an Estonian high school student to say, that "They don't know much about God but they would like to learn more." We were given the opportunity to go straight from the bible and share about who God was and is. There are so many stories from this summer that I want to share with you all, but it is so hard to describe the magnificence of each story through text. This is a severely late thank you, but better late than never.
      You all have helped do several things by supporting me this summer. You helped start a youth group in an area with out a Church. Can you imagine that?! You helped plan camps that Estonian students won't forget for the rest of their lives. And you helped God's plan with Estonia move forward. Thank you all for your faithfulness to God and being willing to serve with your money, time and prayers. You all mean the world to me despite what I have shown. Now you may be wondering what I have been doing since I got back. I have been working at a mitigation company called, Rainbow International. We take care of water, fire and smoke damage in houses or businesses. It is a dirty job but God supplied me with a job right when I landed. While I was working there I applied to Moody Bible Institute with hopes of going there to study linguistics. Sadly I did not get in and right now I am trying to figure out what exactly God has planned for me. I have to admit this a frustrating moment of my life, but I'm sure every one of you has gone through this exact same moment of wondering what God has in store for you. I pray that I remain faithful and keep looking to the future. I am trying to get back to school for the spring semester and will be studying linguistics at my old school. Thank you for your prayers and support again.
       If any of you are looking for a way to tithe or support someone, you can support either of these missionaries. First is Märt Saar, he is the country leader of Estonia for Josiah Venture. He was my main boss while I interned. Märt has three daughters and a wife, Greta(his wife), Vilma 5, Nomi 3, and Verra 1. They need support dearly since they have decided to commit their family as a whole to ministry in Estonia and Greta will not be returning to her job as a nurse. The second missionary is Innar Kruglov, he was the intern leader for our intern team. He did the amazing race with us through Czech and Poland. He and his wife Siiri are very involved with Josiah Venture and their church Riistee. They have a daughter named Ellie who is as sweet as Innar and Siiri are (which is almost to sweet!). They just announced last week that they are expecting a boy, which is very exciting news for them. If you are interested in supporting them you can go to www.josiahventure.com the Saar's account number is 75004 and the Kruglov's account number is 75009. Thanks again everyone for everything you have done to support me. I will never forget and I am forever in your debt.

God Bless,
Scott Paige

First Camp

The first camp is over and that means I only have a month left here in Estonia. I can't believe that the time has gone by so fast. If you asked me about our first camp, I would tell you that it was a total success. We didn't have anyone accept Christ into their hearts at our camp, but that wasn't the ultimate goal. Our goal was to create a community for the students in Ülenurme where they live. Now they have that with Märt Saar(the leader of Koma the organization that I work for) as their youth group leader. They have already started to hang out after camp and have a Facebook group that they are apart of. The other main goal was for them to hear about Christ, since most of the students never have. After the camp we had students share what they thought about Christ. They said that they thought he was the Son of God but they don't know enough about him. So as you can see God has rocked these students lives to where they have never heard of Christ to where they believe he is the Son of God. It was very cool to be apart of this camp and to see how God worked. We have one more camp coming up this weekend. The team is from north point so if you could pray for them as they travel and that they would be prepared spiritually, also pray for the students in Kohila that this camp would change them in so many ways.

Thanks for the support everyone!

God Bless,
Scott

P.S. Here is a video from last week's camp.

Ülenurme English Camp Video

Tartu!

Intern training has ended and after a 22 hr drive through Czech, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia we finally made it to Tartu. The first day of my revival I helped prepare for an event called Bible Days, which is the largest youth event in Estonia. It takes place in a different city each year and this year it just so happened to be in Tartu. Yesterday was the first night of the event(it lasts all weekend). It was very cool to see and feel the spirit moving through the students at this event. Mainly because most of the students are agnostic or atheist, and yesterday when they invited the students to come and be prayed for and to accept Christ into their hearts at least 20 students our of 400 came to the front. In Estonia that is a huge deal. The spirit definitely moved in a huge way last night and there are still two more nights left. Also after the main meeting they have after parties that are hosted by the local churches. So if students that live in Tartu came to the event and were not involved with a youth group this was their chance to get plugged into an awesome group of people. I ask that as you go through this weekend you would be thinking and be praying for the youth at this event, and that they could really see Christ's love and come to know his love. Also pray for the youth groups of Tartu that they would be accepting of new students and they would be making their tents larger so more could join the community of Christ.

God Bless,

Scott

First Week

The amazing race has been completed and intern training ends in two days.  I am very thankful for the team that God has placed me on.  My teammates all have a heart for Estonia and are hoping and praying that this is the summer that Estonia catches fire for Jesus.  The amazing race was exhausting, but at the same time are team never gave up and we had fun the whole team(despite coming in last). As we are preparing for this summer, the spirit is really moving through our team and convicting us on what we need to repent for and fix in our lives in order to see fruit this summer. Its crazy to think that in just a month we will be in English camps non stop.  I just ask that as you go through the month of June that you would pray that God would be stirring the hearts of the students in Estonia, and that they would be thirsty and have questions for the Lord.  I couldn't be here with out your prayers and your support. Thank you very much for helping support my mission and giving me the opportunity to serve the Lord in a unique way.

God Bless,

Scott Paige