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Sebastian & Gloria Forjan
Sebastian, raised Catholic, attended church as almost every Slovene but didn’t believe in God. In 1995, he put his faith in Christ. While he served in the army for nine months, God put a burden on his heart for the youth of his country. After two years of growing in his faith, he became involved in youth work in his local church in Ljubljana. In 1998, he began dating Gloria and in 2002 they were married. Sebastian spent one year as the first full-time youth pastor in Slovenian history working with his local church and Josiah Venture before going to Belfast Bible College for two years. After finishing college in 2005, he and Gloria continued the youth work in their local church and in December 2006, moved to a new town, Radovljica, to start youth ministry there. It was a privilege for them to start a new youth ministry and plant a church in an area where there were no newborn believers. Nowadays they already have a handful group of young people and a Bible study group that meets in their home. People are growing in their walk with Jesus and that brings them much joy. They have a son Patrik who was born in March 2009 and another baby on the way, due November 2010.
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Mateja Jagodic
Mateja attended her first English camp in the summer of 2005 and gave her life to Christ after years of searching. During the next several years, she volunteered with Josiah Venture and started leading a high school youth group at a local church in Ljubljana. Her passion for reaching lost youth has only grown stronger, and she decided to join the JV team in Slovenia full-time at the end of 2011. Currently, she works as a model maker in Ljubljana, disciples young women, and organizes different outreach events and camps. She also leads weekly youth group meetings, Bible studies and drinks a lot of coffee with girls while talking to them about Christ and the life He has to offer.
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Andrej & Nina Lovše
Andrej and Nina first met as teens in their hometown of Maribor, Slovenia. Nina was the first to accept Christ as a result of missionaries sharing Christ outside her high school. A few years later, Andrej became a Christian and left his medical school to pursue Bible training. The two married in 2001 and moved to Zagreb, Croatia to study theology because there were no Bible schools in Slovenia. They both got undergraduate degrees in Bible at the Biblical Institute in Zagreb and Master’s degrees in Christian ministry at Abilene Christian University. While they were in school, they also served in children’s and youth ministries in Croatia. In May 2008, their daughter Eva was born. In January 2009, Andrej and Nina moved back to their home town Maribor. Maribor is the second largest city in Slovenia. It has 150,000 inhabitants, a large university, almost 16,000 high school students and only one small evangelical youth group. They hope to invest in the youth of that city with the hope that new churches will be planted and that next generation leaders will be equipped to reach the nation of Slovenia.
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