No matter where you live, Christmas may be the best time to share about Jesus with the people in your workplace. 

“What kind of psychology did you use yesterday? I was nearly convinced that what you shared was true.”

Some friends had come over to our Caucasian home for afternoon tea the day after Christmas. They had been there on Christmas day as well and we had all experienced something unexplainable. Our living room had been more than fully crowded. It was all messy and noisy as people were sitting everywhere and kids were either crying or running around. Our guests were colleagues, neighbors, and friends we got to know during the few years we stayed in our city. Although next to none of them were followers of Jesus, they had all said yes to come and celebrate Christmas with us. 

When I stood up to share what Christmas is all about, the room went totally quiet. The change was so immense and came so fast that none of us really understood what happened. I felt a holy presence as I told a short version of how and why Jesus came to our world. 

When Roman Lacho and Johan Brenkus came back to Slovakia after several years abroad, they felt a strong calling to mobilize others for missions. In November they organized the first ever GO Equipped course in Slovakia.

“People from Eastern Europe can go to places where others cannot,” say Roman Lacho and Jozef Brenkus. Tentmaking and business as mission are key strategies when Slovakian churches now mobilize for missions. 

Three years ago, Brenkus and Lacho returned to Slovakia from long-term ministries abroad. They belong to the same denomination, but the calling from God took them in different directions. Brenkus went east to Asia, whereas Lacho went west to America.

Similar re-entry challenges knit them close together after they both returned to Slovakia with their families in 2018. In the weeks and months following their return they both also sensed a new calling from God: They were to mobilize new missionaries from Slovakia.

“We did a Kairos course in November the same year as we returned. The course made us understand that God wanted us in a new role as mobilizers and that he would use us to stir something in the hearts of people here,” says Josef Brenkus. 

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