Croatia
Prayer Requests from Mladen...
Please pray for Bernard and Jadranks, members of Christ’s body in Zabreg during a time of difficulty for them. Ana is scheduled for open-heart surgery. And pray for our elderly brother Franjo as he has entered what are surel his last days in this world.
We support the preaching of the Gospel in Croatia through the radio ministry of Mladen Jovanovic whose programs are heard beyond the borders of Croatia. His new radio partner is Valdo Psenko, evangelist and minister at Zagreb Downtown Church of Christ. Psenko broadcasts over the Zagreb suburb local radio station of Velika Gorica. The Word is proclaimed from Zagreb and surrounding cities and new congregations are planted through the response to this programming. In mid-April 2006 Psenko’s 3-minute Bible radio messages began to be heard over Radio Brod FM. This is a great breakthrough in Croatian radio ministry. Radio Brod is located east of Zagreb on the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina. The city is literally divided between these two countries, and radio programs are heard and listened to in our neighboring country of Bosnia. Radio Brod is the ninth radio station where the Good News of Jesus Christ can be heard in the Croatian language.
January 30, 2007
Jovanovichs Visit Austin – An Update
In Croatia, the churches of Christ are part of the legally recognized “Association of Churches.” Member Groups of this Association include the Churches of Christ, International Church of Christ, Baptist fellowships, Pentecostal Churches and a few others. Membership in this Association is the only avenue by which churches may have legal recognition and the benefits which come with that. This group meets monthly. RADIO MINISTRY: Currently Mladen and his co-worker are broadcasting on 12 stations, concentrated in the western part of country. The annual cost of radio programs is about $40,000. Productions costs have remained the same through the years due to improved technologly so adding stations means only paying for more air time. This Christian Radio Ministry, “Good News,” has broadcast God’s Word for 30 years to nations of former Yugoslavia. Presently 10 FM radio stations in Croatia, one AM radio station in Albania and Astra satellite over Europe broadcast our programs. Some of the programs are 15 minutes in length and cost $150 per program to air. Responses come in letters, phone calls and emails. The requests vary from asking for a personal study to asking for a bible. On other stations, “Good News” airs a daily 3-minute spot which consists of reading selected verses on a theme (suffering, sickness, loneliness, etc) and then asking “Do you sometimes feel like that?” “Would you like to talk about it?” “May we send you a Bible?” The church in Zagreb now has a recently translated New Testament as well as portions of gospel of John. Mladen is President of the Croatian Bible Society.
