In May 1990, six months after the Velvet Revolution, Kris served on his first short-term mission in Prague. His love for Central Europe took root, and he and Paula served on many such missions before finally accepting an invitation in 2006 to join the MTW team in Slovakia, where evangelical Christians make up only 0.5 percent of the population.

When they arrived they began discipling, training, and serving in the MTW church plant in Trnava. After giving the leadership of that church into the care of a Slovak evangelical denomination, they went to serve a church “re-plant” in Nitra. In 2015 they saw a shift toward church planting that had never been central to the denomination’s vision. They want to encourage and serve this movement.

In 2017 Kris and Paula will move to Košice in eastern Slovakia, where the rest of the MTW team has established a cultural center in the heart of the city; they are drawing together a core group for a potential church plant. The national denomination also has its own new church plant in the city.

Please ask the Spirit to use Kris and Paula to foster and deepen this budding church-planting movement in Slovakia.