Viktor Kostov Ministries Update, published at www.kmission.org, is a website published and administered by Viktor Kostov, Ph.D., missiologist and attorney-at-law.

Viktor is a missionary, missiologist (theology and methodology of mission) and a Bulgarian-licensed attorney. He works as an advocate for the freedom of religion and speech in the court of law, in media, and at organized public events since 1992. He has been defending the right of the church to gather, worship and witness and the right to free education the right of Christian parents to freely choose the form of education for their children, including home education, without government interference as part of his Christian ministry.

What we do

We work to advance the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We aspire to be a public witness for the faith, and that involves defending the freedom to freely worship God and share the Gospel, and defend biblical justice by upholding the religious freedom of Christians.

Freedom for All is our freedom and justice ministry which protects free debate and basic natural human rights.

We defend human dignity and the right of everyone to seek and defend the truth:
• We publish a website and magazine for theological and legal debate.
• We organize events with discussion topics on the most pressing topics.
• We prepare legal opinions before high courts and state institutions.
• We provide legal protection in lawsuits for basic human rights.

You are more than welcome to partner with us, in the fight for freedom, justice, and human dignity in discipling the nations.

Viktor is on the faculty of the Bulgarian Evangelical Theological institute where he teaches the courses Missiology and Introduction to Law.

Teresa organizes charity and church outreaches and events, helps with church administration and leads women’s prayer.

We also work in the local church and the community: we lead a local church congregation and teach and preach the New Testament message of the Bible and have build an online audience of our sermons.

We network with Christian ministries and churches locally, nationally, and internationally to advance the Gospel and Biblical justice.

Areas of Engagement

Our work is educational, charitable, and human rights (religious freedom and free speech).

Since 2000, Viktor’s work expands to include public and academic involvement with the church and outreach, including charity work to kids in state-run orphanages. Viktor writes academic and popular articles and is the founding editor of a website and a journal in Bulgarian dedicated to foster discussion and debate on church-state relations, fundamental freedoms, and Christian witness in the public square.

Viktor is joined in his efforts in other areas of Christian work by his wife, Teresa. We work with the local church, but also on the national and international levels. We network with churches, denominations, academics, and advocacy Christian groups for the purpose of advancing the freedom to spread the Gospel of Jesus and to further just causes for the kingdom of God. We apply the gifts God has given us as well as the training in the Word and other formal education and experience we have achieved by God’s providence.

Context

The post-communist Bulgarian social and political context is significantly atheist and anti-religious. The pos-communist context has morphed in the last years to include new challenges of global onslaught on freedoms and the Christian faith. If we devise a rough timeline the years 1990-2007 mark the era of “post-communism”. The years from 2007 on, mark the era of Bulgaria joining the process of globalization. The merger of the nation of Bulgaria with the European Union in 2007 presented a new set of challenges before the fundamental right and freedom to preach the Gospel and worship the true God, the God of the Bible. The old territorial divisions of free world and tyrannical regimes beings to lose its full meaning. The state emerges yet again as an omnipresent idolatrous entity and still strives to regulate most areas of life including matters of faith and the family. The spread of the Gospel and of God’s Word is determined by the strong and overwhelming presence of the state and its bureaucracy and other cultural idols. Our work is to discern and engage the cultural strongholds and idols to allow for a more effective preaching and teaching of the Word of God. As a result of these changes we have engaged anew the powers that be with the strength and wisdom of the Holy Spirit and the teachings of Christ from the Scriptures. We have also endeavored to make the Word of God — understanding, applying and teaching it, the foundation of our ministry. As we maintain contact with many Western brothers in the faith, we realized that the challenges before the church do not diminish but grow with the new times of globalization of communication and the advancement of technology. While these trends may be helpful for the spread of the truth of the Gospel, they are also used for evil and to hamper the witness for the faith. Responding according the times and the leading of the Holy Spirit our ministry may evolve in its methods but the purpose remains the same — witness of the great love and sacrifice of Jesus Christ, so all who believe would have eternal life (John 3:15, 17:3).

Connect

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You can support us through your monetary gifts, prayer, and by sharing with your church, friends and family about our ministry. We would also love to hear from you. Write to us at “info at kmission.org” where you drop the spaces and replace “at” with “@.”

About this Website

Here you will find information about us, about our ministry, our reflections based on the revelation of the Scriptures in the blog section, and ways to donate and help this work.