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.