From a Warehouse to the Lord’s House: A Story from Lithuania

In 2018, Švč. Mergelės Marijos Ramintojos bažnyčia (Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Peacemaker) in Vilnius, Lithuania, started its first Alpha. Today, their Alphas are so fruitful that over 60% of participants identify as unchurched — and even as they run the course twice a year, they still need to put people on a waitlist.

But the history of this church is much older and more convoluted than their present-day evangelistic fruitfulness would suggest.