With less than 0.1% of the population professing to be evangelical Christians, Slovenia is one of the least reached countries in Europe. Many Slovenian cities are becoming increasingly secularized without any evangelical witness. Of the few evangelical churches, many are struggling to find pastors to lead them.
In response to this, we lead a Pentecostal church plant in Ptuj where we seek to help our people answer the call to lead their own community to Jesus. Our church recently doubled in size, with more people coming to faith.
I (Luka), along with our congregation, organize a number of outreach ministries including our mother’s group and English clubs that meet weekly to reach mothers and teens respectively. I also lead and organize our national Pentecostal young adult camps, which take place three times a year. I (Cassandra) am a full-time high school English teacher; however, I’m also heavily involved in our church ministries, organizing our worship and kid’s ministries, while continually investing in our community.
In 2010, I (Luka) left Slovenia, my country, to study pastoral theology at Vanguard College in Edmonton. I then met and married Cassandra through my time at Vanguard. We then both were involved in youth and young adult ministry for four years in Edmonton. In 2015, after finishing our education, we felt God call us to Murska Sobota, Slovenia, where I (Luka) served as a youth and associate pastor. In 2017, we moved to Ptuj to help lead the newest church plant in the Slovenian Pentecostal movement. We welcomed our first child Liam in 2021.
