Mark and Robin Shutes
Mark and Robin Shutes received their appointment to Belarus in 1996 with an additional appointment to the Baltic Republics in 2002 and as the director of evangelism for the former Soviet Union in 2006. They currently work from their base in Riga, Latvia, where they continue to train teams of AIMers and nationals to bring the gospel and establish churches in the cities and villages of each country. When they first arrived on the field as AIMers in 1993, there were only two converts in the country of Belarus. Since that time, they have seen God multiply that work to over 60 churches throughout Belarus and the Baltic Republics with a first time opening into the countries of Latvia and Lithuania. In the coming years they will continue to build and multiply teams of people to evangelize the nations of Belarus, the Baltic Republics, and the entire former Soviet Union.