Dear Friends and Partners, Greetings from sunny Serbia. Thank you very much for all your care, love, prayers, kindness and generosity towards us. Thank you for blessing us and supporting us in this ministry of saving lives in central Serbia. Your kindness makes a massive difference in advancing the Kingdom of God and taking new territories for Christ. We pray for you and would like to encourage you with this verse: “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him.” (Rom. 8:28) |
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Wedding In July we participated and Sasha preached and performed a wedding ceremony in Belgrade in a very exclusive restaurant and event centre ‘Diamond Garden,’ for a young couple, our believers who live and work in Zurich, Switzerland. Their relatives and friends, over two hundred - a great majority unbelievers, came from Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Croatia, Switzerland and Austria and were able to hear the Gospel and Christian values, many of them for the first time. |
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Lidija Lidija successfully completed her second year at AOG Missio Dei Bible College in Manchester this June, achieving good grades. She is studying for a degree in Theology and Christian Leadership, a three-year program in total. All of her training, tuition fees, and living expenses we need to finance ourselves, as she does not have access to student loans. While this is a significant need, it is also a great opportunity to invest in training a young woman, who, after completing her studies, will return to serve on the mission field in central Serbia. |
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We are looking for 40 individuals who will partner with us by supporting Lidija's training with £25 per month. At this point, 10 people have already committed for her third year, which means we still need 30 more partners. Would you pray about being part of her journey and investing to equip a young woman who is preparing to serve Him on the mission field? We warmly invite you to be part of this journey. |
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Baptism We had baptismal service in our church in Kraljevo in the second half of August and three young men got baptised. We are so happy. We plan to organise our next baptismal service in October, already we have more candidates for baptism. Baptismal services are such joyful occasions. |
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Ministering in Jerusalem In June, during the Israel-Iran war, Sasha was invited to minister online via Zoom to the workers and staff of the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem for their chapel service. In the midst of heavy missile bombardments, he shared God's Word, prayed with them and lifted their spirits bringing encouragement and strength in very challenging circumstances. |
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Bible School We travelled to Vranje, the most southern city in Serbia at the border of North Macedonia. We ministered there through the Word and music, and also taught on two subjects in the local Bible School - Sasha on Church Planting and Sara on Worship in church. It was really well attended, with the whole church gathering together. At the end, we prayed for people and their needs. |
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UCB Word for Today in Serbian Sasha was asked to write the Foreward for the Autumn 2025 issue of UCB Word for Today devotional in Serbian and he wrote it with the title “In Your light.” In the second half of August, it was printed and distributed. It is a source of great blessing and encouragement to many who read it all over Serbia. |
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Visiting England In May we participated and were blessed at the AOGGB National Conference in Harrogate and visited and met some of you, our friends and partners. Meeting and talking to you in person cannot be replaced by anything. We were able to socialise and have fellowship with you, minister in your churches and share what God is doing in this part of the world. We really value your love, friendship and partnership. May God abundantly bless you in every way! |
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Impact on central Serbia We make an impact on central Serbia, which is our main mission field, through preaching the Gospel, teaching the Word of God, discipleship and leadership training on the premises of our local church Lighthouse Church in Kraljevo (we are still the only evangelical church in our city of 130,000 people), online using internet, in people’s houses in other places where we have believers (and we have believers in eight other places all the way to the border of Bosnia, and in all these places there are no evangelical churches), in coffee shops, on the streets, in schools and nursery, and helping the poor and needy. Our Sunday services that we broadcast 'live' every week have on average 3000 views all over Serbia and beyond. |
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In June 2025 we visited our believers in Nova Varosh (three hours’ drive from Kraljevo) and had a meeting in a private house of one of our believers who lives there. We also had a meeting in a private house in Chachak. Our believers who live outside and far away from Kraljevo, in central Serbia, we meet in their homes and they follow our services online, both Sunday services and midweek services. |
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We bought a land At the beginning of July, we bought 137 m2 of land in our church garden in Kraljevo on the left-hand side of our church building, where our whole fence is with the neighbours on the left-hand side and part of our car park is there. We bought it and transferred the ownership to Lighthouse Church Kraljevo. Why did we not buy it before? Because the ownership was not clear, it was not legally clear who the owner was. At the end of March, the ownership became completely legally clear and we began a process of buying that land from the rightful owner. We are happy to say, it is now completed. |
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Love in action This Summer we donated six bicycles to the poorest people for whom that will be the only way of transportation. We brought food and donated fridges, washing machine, microwave to people very poor, who are using the local soup kitchen for their meals every day. Caring for the poor is an integral part of who we are and our mission. |
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Our guests Having guests visit us always help us to welcome and attract new people to church and to have evangelistic outreach. In June we had Pastor and Evangelist Petar Pilic from Novi Sad preaching and in July we had Professor Zeljko Bill Todorovic from USA ministering and challenging us to go full on for Jesus. |
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Thank you Thank you so much, dear friends and partners, for your prayers, donations, and ongoing support. We truly value and appreciate every act of generosity, it makes a tremendous difference and enables us to continue our ministry in the unreached areas of central Serbia, our mission field. Without your partnership, none of this would be possible. |
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