Quote Originally Posted by RabidGibbon
Why would a Missionary go to Eastern Europe? Is he hoping to convert the last of the Communists? Find some pagan hold outs in the Baltic States? Convert Catholics to Baptists? Orthodox to Methodists?

All seems a but made-up to me.
I know someone who was there and I think they mainly help the poor people, it's not like the iron curtain fell and suddenly all of eastern europe turned into rich, westernized metropoles of christianity or something like that.