Hope for the Balkans — Organization Profile
Hope for the Balkans Mission Network is a Christian ministry focused on equipping, empowering, and training God’s people in Bulgaria and the Balkans to reach their generation for Jesus Christ. The ministry states that it exists to lead people to God, establish them in the faith, and equip them for ministry by pouring into their lives, motivating them, and facilitating reproduction into multiple generations of disciples of Christ.
The organization’s core focus is producing global Christians and expository preachers through discipleship, mission mobilization, church partnerships, and pastoral training. Hope for the Balkans seeks to serve as a bridge between churches in the United States and churches in Bulgaria so the body of Christ can work together for gospel expansion in the region.
Hope for the Balkans serves Bulgaria, with ministry vision extending into the Balkans and Europe. Its public materials identify ministry activity in Bulgarian cities such as Sofia, Burgas, Plovdiv, Shumen, Ruse, Karlovo, Sliven, Pleven, Varna, Karnobat, Kazanlak, and Veliko Tarnovo. The ministry also describes the evangelical church in Bulgaria as a small minority within a wider religious and cultural context shaped by Orthodox and Muslim communities.
The ministry operates through several connected areas, including the Kairos Course, Training for Trainers, church mobilization, discipleship multiplication, internet ministry, and partnerships with mission organizations. The Kairos Course is used to mobilize believers and churches for God’s global mission, with a focus on unreached and least-reached people groups. Hope for the Balkans reports launching the Kairos Course in Bulgaria in 2013 and continuing to conduct courses in multiple Bulgarian cities.
A distinctive part of Hope for the Balkans’ approach is equipping Bulgarian pastors and pastor-trainers to faithfully study, teach, and preach God’s Word. Its Training for Trainers program emphasizes expository preaching, hermeneutical principles, interactive workshops, practice preaching, mentoring, and multiplication through the 2 Timothy 2:2 model. The ministry describes this work as bringing Bible training to pastors who may not be able to attend seminary.
People can engage with Hope for the Balkans by praying, giving, joining the sending team, partnering through churches, supporting Kairos and Training for Trainers work, or contacting the ministry directly. Donations are received online through New Life International or by check designated for “Bulgaria Ministry” or “BG-01.” The ministry also lists mission partners such as New Life International, Simply Mobilizing, WordPartners, and IDES.
Key Links
- Website: https://hopeforthebalkans.org/
- About: https://hopeforthebalkans.org/who-we-are/
- Statement of Faith: https://hopeforthebalkans.org/statement-of-faith/
- Core Values: https://hopeforthebalkans.org/core-values/
- Testimony: https://hopeforthebalkans.org/testimony/
- Bulgaria: https://hopeforthebalkans.org/bulgaria/
- Kairos Course: https://hopeforthebalkans.org/bulgaria-kairos-courses/
- Training for Trainers: https://hopeforthebalkans.org/tft/
- Donate: https://newlifeinternational.org/simeon-krastev-hope-for-the-balkans/
- Send Us: https://hopeforthebalkans.org/donation/
Contact Information
- Email: ho***************@***il.com
- Donation mailing address: New Life International, 6764 S. Bloomington Trail, Underwood, IN 47177
Socials
- Not publicly listed.
Leadership
- Simeon Krastev — Founder
