Y.E.S. (Yugoslavia Evangelistic Society), Serbia
Ondrej and Milina Franka, and their daughters, Andrea and Margaret, are native Yugoslavian/Serbians. Ondrej was raised in a Christian family and went to church, but did not come to know Christ personally until after he attended a Billy Graham crusade as a youth. In 1973, he married Milina, a Christian girl from the same town.
The Christian life was not easy in the communistic system - secular education was highly emphasized and the church did not have any biblically trained leaders who could communicate truths to young people. It was a life of frustration for Ondrej and Milina until some Pocket Testament League missionaries from the U.S. came to Yugoslavia. They discipled Ondrej, and eventually he and Milina left their secular jobs to go into full-time ministry.
Ondrej studied at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois.
Ondrej and Milina share a tremendous burden for evangelizing the people of their own country. In the early 1990's, when communism fell apart in Yugoslavia, Ondrej seized the opportunity to establish the first independent mission organization: The Christian Evangelistic Center, The Pocket Testament League of Yugoslavia.
In 1992, civil war came to Yugoslavia, and refugees started to come from all sides. Ondrej started a humanitarian ministry; TELL and FEED. Through this ministry, many have tasted the goodness of the Lord, both physically, through food, medicine, and clothing, and spiritually, through the Word of God. As a result, many have come to know the Lord. The next need was to train these refugees as they returned home. The Bible School was established in 1995, with the goal of training refugees and other young people, and sending them out to plant churches. It was the only Bible School in the country.
The year 1999 produced the most recent war in Serbia, and Ondrej again headed up the project TELL and FEED / BUILDING BRIDGES, a ministry to refugees and others affected by this war.
Today, Ondrej and Milina Franka's ministry, Yugoslavian Evangelistic Society, involves many different aspects:
- Bible School and conferences
- Tell and Feed / Building Bridges project
- Literature printing and distribution
- Youth ministry and choir
- Children's ministry
- Evangelizing via public meetings, radio, and films
- Ministry to the local church - spiritually building up existing churches and giving assistance in planting new ones
Phone: 011-381-21-780-876
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