What is your ministry?
I am leading the pastoral team of four pastors of our church and coordinating several ministry teams. I am also leading one of our house churches and three discipleship groups. I am coordinating our short-term mission group in Nairobi, Kenya, where we work with our Kenyan Church partner.
When did you trust Christ?
I trusted in Christ as my Lord and savior in September of 1987, after my heart was softened due to the Lord answering my family’s prayers and reading the Bible and other Christian literature.
What have been the defining moments of your Christian walk?
A few months after my conversion, I became part of a discipleship group in Timisoara. Three years later, I started my first discipleship group. After graduation, I began working full-time for the Evangelical Christian Student Organization in Timisoara. In 1998, my wife Valeria and I and three other families started a new Baptist Church, Vox Domini.
What do you hope to gain from participating?
I want to learn how to adapt my style of teaching and training to the variety of interests and needs of my disciples. I want to learn to motivate others and to cast vision.
What is your leadership role or what were your past leadership roles?
Besides my involvement in the local church and student ministry I am a member of the national churches network called B.I.G. – Impact (Churches with Global Impact) and I am teaching in the informal pastoral training program, ATS (Advanced Training Studies) for educated, qualified, and involved pastors and leaders to increase their efficiency and impact. I also studied in ATS for three years and graduated in 2006. Since 1999 I am involved with Esther Foundation, a crisis pregnancy center, and in an educational program for high school students regarding sexuality. I was part of the team that created the curriculum for the sexuality education course; I am a trainer for teaching the course to professors and I am also teaching in public high schools.
Why should someone invest in your ministry?
I have a small discipleship group of four college students. I also a lead a small group of families and singles, around 15 people, as a home church ministry. It is a joy to see some of my disciples growing, becoming disciples-makers and leaders serving in church or at their jobs.
