A Christian University in the Heart of Eastern Europe

Resonate missionaries teach many subjects at LCC, including "Creation Care," or environmental stewardship from a Christian perspective.

Resonate staff members including Zach pose for a picture under the LCC's seal.

The world is changing.  When the immovable wall of communism stood strong, very few could imagine a day when young people from Eastern Europe could receive a Christian education or when young leaders could be trained to share the Gospel and plant churches in a context where religion is suppressed and persecuted.  God brings change. In the late eighties and early nineties Communism fell.  Soon after a group of evangelical missionaries took the opportunity to plant Lithuania Christian College (LCC) University in Klaipeda, Lithuania.  Resonate (then Christian Reformed World Missions) was invited to send missionary teachers to the University to teach academic disciplines from a Christian and missional point of view.  Today Lithuania is one of Resonate’s largest mission fields in terms of missionaries working.  Zach got a chance to meet these missionaries and many of their students in February.  It was amazing to see young people training for mission work from former Soviet Republics, predominantly Muslim countries, and many Eastern European countries.  Moreover, LCC is a mission field itself as the majority of students are either non-Christian or nominally Christian.  It is a huge victory for the Kingdom of God when LCC’s many graduates leave the institution with a commitment to live by their faith in whatever vocation God calls them to, including social services, business and politics.  We give thanks for LCC and Resonate’s opportunity to serve there.