Pastors Kenneth and Diana Kaasik

Kenneth and Diana with their children Anna Rebekah, Joshua and Simkah Deborah

Kenneth and Diana were born again in the late 1970’s and met in the largest Assemblies of God Bible college in Springfield, Missouri. After graduating from this four-year Bible school, they were married and immediately left to go to Rhema Bible Training Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the early 1980’s. After graduating Rhema, they were actively involved many years in various ministries in the local church. Kenneth has been licensed and ordained with Rhema Ministerial Association International (RMAI) for approximately 15 years.

Kenneth Kaasik grew up in an Estonian household, having parents who escaped from Estonia during the Soviet take-over in 1944. Ken’s first language was Estonian.

Kenneth and Diana left for what was then the Soviet Union in early summer of 1990 with their 3-year old daughter and 1-year old son. They were planning to move to continental Europe as missionaries when they received a surprise invitation to move to Soviet-Estonia from Ken’s cousins who were the most popular singing group in the nation at the time, having much favor with the leadership of Estonia.

The Kaasiks were the first Word of Faith or full-Gospel missionaries to take up residence in Soviet Estonia, and possibly the first in all of the USSR. This was about fourteen months before the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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