Estonia is not a familiar country or destination for most folks in the United States. I had the opportunity to visit it for the fourth time this past summer when my husband Russell and I helped at Christian Camp Gideon, which is located one and a half hours from the capital city of Tallinn.

Estonia is one of the three Baltic states (along with Latvia and Lithuania) located on the Gulf of Finland. All three were a part of the Soviet Union for 50 years beginning when Stalin seized control just before World War II until 1991 when communism ended. Because of that occupation, Russian and Estonian are the primary languages.

During my two-week visit in Estonia, I met numerous Ukrainians who had fled their country because of the war with Russia. Every story is different, as are people’s hopes fo

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