Dear Friends, Sisters and Brothers in Christ Jesus,

It has been some time since I wrote to you. I apologize for that. It is not that you are forgotten in our hearts. We thank you very much for still being in your prayers and thank you for remembering us and our ministry in your lives.

The Lord has been very kind to us! I still serve as a preacher in the Baptist church in Kikinda, the town near us. It made our hearts joyful because we are not waiting the time given us by the Lord. We are working with children and teenagers and preaching of the Word. We also started to have music in the church when we lead worship. The situation immediately changed and many people who left the church before went back to the church, even the whole families.

I led a few people to Christ even in the last month. We tray to visit the families and encourage them to follow the Christ and share the Gospel in their region because as you probably know, Serbia is country with less then 0, 1 % of born again Christians. Praise the Lord for every opportunity!

Now we have 16 children in the children’s Sunday school, 8 teenagers and on Sunday service, sometime there are almost 100 people attending the service. It is great to see the church waking up and being interested of how they can serve in the church.
We dream of going outside and share the Gospel with other. My vision is to rich the youth for Christ but also the other who are lost.

In the same time we continue to meat with small group of our friends every Tuesday evening in our home. Three of them trusted Christ two months ago and now are growing in Christ. That rejoices our hearts and we are so thankful to the Lord! We pray every evening on family devotion for all our friends and neighbors’ conversion and that God would give us opportunity to testify about Him and invite them in to relationship with Him and eternal life.
We need your prayers and any support.

We prepare to serve as a family in at least 3 summer camps this year. It will be one children camp and two teenager camps. Pray that God will give us opportunity to lead many children and teenagers to the decision for Christ.

In the same time we face hard time with our finances. The expenses are growing and from time to time I have to do any other work to help our family; something like, to paint some rooms, work in the field, cutting the grass to someone itc. That is not problem for me because sometime it gives me opportunity to tell people about Christ just, it is very hard to find any job in Serbia now and it eats me the time to prepare and serve in the church.
Please, pray that God will provide enough money for us to be able to register our car and buy a wood for heating on the winter. This is now the priority.
Thank you for your faithful love and prayers! We need them all.
God bless you!

Greetings from Serbia!
Love,
Darko and Elizabeth Vika

WORD OF LIFE SERBIA
Darko and Elizabeth Vika
7.Jula 9; 24400 Senta
vika6.wol.serbia@gmail.com

"WE ARE NOT WAITING FOR BETTER TIMES; WE ARE WAITING FOR JESUS CHRIST!"

Dear Brothers and Sister in Christ the Savior,
It is hard time in which we live today in Serbia and the World! Everywhere around us there are complains about pure economics, short incomes and high prices. The world in which we live does not have hope for today and even less hope for tomorrow. Serbia is not the exception. Serbia has never been evangelized. It has never been revival here. We live in the country forgotten by the Missionaries with the less the 1% of born again Christians, in the central Europe and the bad reputation because of many years of wars and many sacrifices.
Can we, as God’s children do something to change this? Can we as God’s chosen people give any answer on this hard questions that are all around us? Can you help?

We as God's servants, Word of Life Missionaries in Serbia believe, we can! Even more! Serving with us, supporting us to serve Him here, you can share Christ with thousands with no hope in Serbia! Our Bible gives those answers that the world in which we live are thirsty for! We are here because God put us to be salt and light to this present world and to our generation in Serbia! We have a hope that last for ever! Hope that comes from God in His the only Son. He gave His life to redeem us from the penalty of our sin.
That’s why Word of Life in Serbia exists! That’s why Elizabeth and I with our family serve the Lord to give the Hope of forgiveness, eternal peace, love and life in better future to youth, children and their parents, including all the people who want to change their lives and turn them toward eternity with Christ!

During last two months, we served the Lord in Baptist Church in Kikinda, preaching and teaching people The Word of God and leading children’s and teenager’s Bible Club there. We continue to serve in two other churches in Titel and Ljutovo.

We have been invited to preach in to other churches, Padina and Pivnice where they invited their friends, relatives and neighbors to the church to listen Gospel. We preached the Gospel before the audience of around 200 people in every church and there we some people who responded to the invitation to trust Jesus.

We also continue to meet with group of our friends and neighbors in our home every Thursday evening studying the Word of God and leading them closer to our Savior Jesus Christ.
God also gave me one boy student whom I started to teach the language. This is great opportunity and we talk about some Bible stories also. God is good and allowed me to tell him who God is and what is Bible about.

So, the opportunities are many! All around us, there are people thirsty for hope, thirsty for change in their lives. We are here to give them Hope of Christ. Will you help us?

Now thanks be to God, who always causes us to triumph in Christ, and He revealing through us the odor of the knowledge of Him in every place. For we are to God a sweet savor of Christ, in those being saved, and in those being lost; to the one we are the savor of death to death, and to the other we are the savor of life to life. And who is sufficient for these things? For we are not as many, hawking the Word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, we speak in Christ in the sight of God. 2 Cor 2:14-17

Praises:
1. We praise God for giving us opportunity to serve Him and lead people closer to Him in these

hard times!
2. We praise God for giving us the minimum we need to live with 6 member family.
3. We praise God for people all around us who are thirsty for God.
4. We praise God for people who respond on our Gospel message everywhere and the churches

that allow us to serve.

Prayers:
1. Pray with us to be able to preach the Gospel even more openly and more effectively in our

country.
2. Pray with us that God will open the door for us to register Word of Life Ministry, legally in

Serbia and have summer camps in Serbian schools!
3. Pray with us for 4 summer camps we will have this summer in Serbia and the same number of

Bible clubs.
4. Pray with us that God will create wish in many hearts of His children to help us raising our

support which is still 0% raised. May be you would like to partner with us by supporting our

ministry in Serbia?

If you are wishing to give one-time gifts or regular support you chould make checks out to Word of Life Fellowship and write Darko Vika support/gift 201516 in the memo section.
Send checks to: Word of Life Fellowship, Box 600, Schroon Lake, NY 12870.

God bless you and keep you for His glory!

Yours in His service, for His glory,
Darko and Elizabeth Vika with the family

Serbia, January 2009

Dear Brothers and Sisters, Family of God,

We hope to find you in good health in the first days of the New Year graciously given to all of us by God.
During December last year and the first half of January of this year we have bean very busy serving the Lord through serving people on different places and different ways. We still serve in Baptist Churches in Kikinda, Titel and Ljutovo. We also meet with a group of our neighbors and friends in our home every Tuesday evening to study the Word. In Kikinda we lead Children and Teen Bible Club too. This Christmas we invited our friends and had program with the children and teenagers, sharing Christmas presents with children. At the end of this year we were invited to preach in Baptist Church in Padina. There were more then 200 people there and the Lord used and blessed us so much. We would like to let you see the pictures, know the praises we have and to ask you to pray for our ministry needs as much as to support our ministry by giving and being our partners in reaching people for Christ in Serbia. You are allowed to share this letter with everybody you believe is willing to be our partner in our ministry in Serbia.

Our praises to the Lord:
For using us as His tool in preaching the Word, youth an children ministry and Word of Life Ministry (WOL Camps and Bible clubs ministry)

Our Prayer Requests:
Pray with us that God will provide at least 100 people who will pray for us regularly and people who are ready to invest into Word of Life ministry in Serbia by supporting our ministry by giving.
Pray with us to be able to have at least 4 summer camps next summer and the same number of Bible clubs.
Pray with us to be able to teach Christians in churches where we are now serving to testify about their faith to their unbelieving friends.

PS. If you or someone you know wish to give one-time gifts or regular support you could make checks out to Word of Life Fellowship and write Darko Vika support/gift 201516 in the memo section.
Send checks to: Word of Life Fellowship, Box 600, Schroon Lake, NY 12870.


In Christ service,
Darko and Elizabeth with the family

Dear Friends and Family of God,

This year was a great crossroad for the life of our family. The Lord gave us our home in a miraculous way. We were able to make repairs and move into it the middle of this year. Just before this, I graduated from the Word of Life Bible Institute in Hungary, where the Lord gave me the great privilege of studying the Bible for two years, learning from some of the best Bible teachers in the world.

Our family was looking forward to being accepted by the Word of Life International Mission as missionaries for our country of Serbia. We saw the need for young people and children to be won to the Lord in Serbia in which there is less then 0,5 % born again Christians and we pray for God to use us to change this generation in our country. We plan to serve through WOL camps and Bible Clubs to help small existing churches in Serbia to grow and be a tool used for God’s purpose.
The Lord answered our many prayers and in October of this year, Elizabeth and I completed the Word of Life Missionary Training and were accepted as WOL missionaries.

We are now praying and looking for prayer and financial partners – supporters who would like to help us in sharing Jesus with the people of Serbia. Maybe you can be one of those to dedicate yourself in prayer and sacrifice to help us serve Lord here in Serbia where there are the least number of missionaries in all of Europe.

In the meantime, we are serving in the Kikinda Baptist church near us by preaching the Word and counseling and I have become one of the elders. I also lead a small group of teenagers in the Bible Club in this church. We have a group of people meeting every Tuesday evening in our home studying God’s Word. We also visit two other churches near us in Titel and Ljutovo.

In closing, we wish you a very merry Christmas and a blessed New Year!
With Greetings and Love from Darko, Elizabeth, and Family

Our Praises to the Lord:
We almost finished the renovation and moved to our house in which we live and try to meet with some of our friends and neighbors once a week.
In October, Elizabeth and I were accepted as Word of Life Missionaries. God is opening the door for youth and children’s ministry in Serbia!
This summer we had three camps with more then 250 children and youth.
God allowed us to preach the Word in 3 churches (Kikinda, Ljutovo and Titel) and to lead a small group of teenagers in a Bible club in Kikinda.
God gave us opportunity to give testimony for Christ and to continue to work with some of our neighbors and friends.



Our Prayer Requests:
Pray with us to be able to find at least 100 people who will pray for us regularly and to raise support for our ministry and life in Serbia.
Pray with us to be able to have at least 4 summer camps next summer and the same number of Bible clubs.
Pray with us to be able to teach Christians in churches where we are now serving to testify about their faith to their unbelieving friends.