Azerbaijan
Twelve People Groups, Twelve Months: A New Prayer Movement Rises Among Azerbaijan’s Unreached
On April 25, 2026, a new prayer movement was launched in Baku, Azerbaijan, uniting over 70 Christian leaders to reach the country’s 100 distinct ethnic groups. Through the “Twelve People Groups, Twelve Months” initiative, Mission Eurasia is mobilizing believers to bridge cultural and linguistic gaps with the gospel. “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.” – Matthew 9:37-38 On April 25, 2026, in Baku, something began that the believers gathered there refused to call an event. They called it a beginning. A Country of a Hundred People Groups Azerbaijan is a country of mosaics. Roughly 90 percent of its population identifies as ethnic Azerbaijani, but the remaining 10 percent represents close to 100 distinct ethnicities – most of them rooted in centuries-old Islamic tradition, most of them still without a sustained gospel…
Rudik and Julietta’s story
“Rudik and Julietta gladly welcomed me into their tiny rented room in a hostel,” recalled, Inna, a member of Mission Eurasia’s Field Ministries Team. “Although I saw them for the very first time, I felt part of the family right away. They quickly set up a table with all the fruit and sweets they had in their home and we started talking. “I learned that the couple had been married for over 40 years and they had happy lives in Hadrut, Nagorno-Karabakh,” she said. “Rudik was the head of a large bakery and Julietta worked in a store. They had three children and now have eight grandchildren. They lived their comfortable lives in a nice beautiful house and drove a nice car. “But when war broke out between Armenia and Azerbaijan last fall,” she said, “the couple boarded a bus, like many other people. They were told they would be back in…
Sharing the Gospel with Muslim Neighbors
Mara (name changed) grew up in a Muslim family in Azerbaijan, but was introduced to Jesus when she fell in love with a Christian man! After graduating from School Without Walls (SWW), she and her husband now host a SWW group in their home and mentor young Christian leaders, while sharing the gospel with their Muslim friends and neighbors. Mara shares how God changed her heart through the faith of her husband: “I grew up in a Muslim family, so my parents raised me according to Islamic law. From a young age, I was told that my purpose was to get married and have children, just like my mother and grandmother did. I never imagined that my husband would be a man of God, but when I first met him, he talked with me about the gospel, which was so different from what I was taught by my family. “At…