Heroes of the Cross

A young pastor is hunted down and shot by a Soviet destroyer battalion. His final recorded words are, we must display more love in action. A grand old man survives the bombing of his church and the Siberian GULAG. He returns to remind his flock, You must continue to evangelize. These are the stories of six heroes. Instruments of God in the revival that launched The Methodist Church in Estonia, they would go on to face the Soviet Red Terror. Through their courage, Estonia would become the only place in the Soviet Union where The Methodist Church survived as a public and connected witness.



This book tells the story of six early pastors of the Methodist Church in Estonia, and their courage and witness in the face of death, exile, and persecution in the early twentieth century.