Dan and Rebecca Gregoire first came to Slovakia on a short-term mission trip in 2001. They returned in 2007 to begin serving full time, and currently live in Košice, Slovakia, with their eight children. They are part of a church-planting team with MTW, working alongside a Slovak pastor and local denomination to plant more churches in Košice and throughout Slovakia.

God answered a big prayer and in 2015 Dan and Rebecca saw a shift toward church planting that had never been central to the denomination’s vision. They want to encourage and serve this movement.

Dan and Rebecca are passionate about sharing their family life with others, discipling young people and families. Rebecca leads a club where moms with young children come to play, learn songs in English, gain encouragement in their mothering, and hear the gospel. The team also hosts events in their homes so that they can also engage the fathers.

Dan also works with the Roma, commonly known as Gypsies, encouraging and discipling believers where poverty and oppression have existed for generations. Dan has been learning about raising chickens for meat and eggs and teaching these methods to the Roma to provide opportunities for work, income and better sources of nutrition. 

Together Dan and Rebecca seek to live missional lives, being a bridge to bring Slovaks into the community of believers to hear the gospel and see it in practice. It is their hope that the next generation in Slovakia will know and worship the Lord as a body of believers.