Jovica and Savka Bacvanski
PARTNER PROFILE:
Jovica Bacvanski Jovica Bacvanski started visiting Montenegro weekly in 1999. The next year, with his wife Savka and a young baby, they moved from Serbia to the capital city, Podgorica following a definite call from God. Unlike their homeland of Serbia and Albania to the south, Montenegro has barely a handful of evangelical churches. Jovica leads Christ Gospel Church in Podgorica. In addition to the Sunday service they hold a regular weekly prayer meeting (about 70% of the members attend!). They have teams of two who visit church members who are weak or sick, they lead a homegroup, run a preacher's training group and have recently started a children’s work. They have planted a branch church in Kamenari and want to start
a church in the popular coastal resort of Tivat. The work has grown slowly. Some of the church members came from a regional drug rehab centre. They went into the centre as young drug addicts, got saved and found a different outlook on life and joined the church. There have been encouragements in the past few years with several believers getting baptised and mature Christians joining with musical gifts to augment the worship group. Their vision and prayer for this year is for GROWTH, both in numbers and in deeper spiritual life. Jovica: "The Lord has been so good to us all of these years and we know He will always be with us."
If you would like to support Jovica’s work in prayer or finances please contact Melanie Griffiths at the TEN office on melanie. griffiths@ten-uk.org or 0117 961 5161.
FACT: Montenegro has over 625,000 inhabitants, less than 300 are evangelicals. Source: Operation World 12
