Welcome to
WALENT STREET
Welcome to Walent-Street
We are happy you logged on, or "turned in on our street"!
We serve in Finland to help churches become healthy and move them towards starting new bodies of believers.
Check out the site to see what God is doing in and through our lives here. It is exciting being here serving the Lord and we want you to be part of what is going on; where we are, what we do and places we go.
So walk further up our street, keep scrolling and check it out...
About us
We are Steve and Christina
Steve, originally from Akron OH, went to Austria to serve in a coffee house ministry in 1985. Christina, originally from the Swedish-speaking part of Finland went to Austria in 1988 to serve in another church. We met there, have been married since 1989 and have three adult daughters and two grandsons.
We have served in Austria in many different capacities and since 2001 in Germany. The Fall of 2022 we moved to Finland to continue our ministry there....
Church Basics International
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The ministry we are involved in is called Church Basics International or CBI. Through CBI we have been training leaders from roughly 200 churches in Germany, with over 1,000 leaders in the area of church health and revitalization. The participating churches have seen more first-time visitors, more conversions, more baptisms, and more people actively following Christ
as a result of this ministry.
CBI has expanded into Austria and Switzerland and most recently also into Finland. Some more countries in Europe are also interested...
Partner with us
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We would love to have you partner with us in our ministry, in prayer and also in financial support.
If you would like to support our ministry financially, our AGWM account is 2904985 or please click here:
http://s1.ag.org/walent