Martinsons, Martin

There are around 200 000 people who live in the wider Pārdaugava area. Historically some of the areas in this part of the town used to be the poorest areas of Riga. Now the area where we are doing our ministry is one of the fastest growing and developing areas in the city. Most of Pārdaugava was built during the Soviet times therefore historically there has never really been a significant presence of the church. And even now there are just a handful of churches and only a couple of them could be called broadly evangelical.