Samuel Cekov is the National Director at Ambassadors for Christ International in Slovakia.
When did you trust Christ?
I surrendered my life to God at the age of twelve. Two years later, I was baptised on the confession of faith. Missions, evangelism, and their implementation in the church are what God has been putting on my heart since I was born again.
What have been the defining moments of your Christian walk?
There were more moments when God spoke powerfully to me. One of them was the time after high school. Over two years, God used personal prayer time very powerfully in conjunction with studying God's Word. Another defining moment was when I started a youth group in a part of town without any evangelical work. Another powerful period was when I was on a mission in Northern Macedonia, where I spent the first half year as a single man and then another year with my wife. We returned to Slovakia, where I accepted a position as an associate preacher in a Baptist congregation in Banská Bystrica. A year and a half later, I decided to join the missionary organisation Ambassadors of Christ - Slovakia full-time. I became its National Director in 2019. Since the beginning of 2023, I have also held the position of Regional Director for Europe. My heart's business is enabling and mobilising believers in discipleship, evangelism, and mission.
What do you hope to gain from participating?
I expect this Forum to be inspirational. In addition, I believe it is a great opportunity for networking. I also anticipate an opportunity to hear about new resources that will help us in ministry. In my role as European Director, I would like to attract other colleagues to this Forum in the future, which could certainly benefit them.
What is your ministry?
Our vision is to accelerate the spreading of the Gospel in our country and regions. We do this by encouraging believers in evangelism and missions, training them to share the Gospel in multiple contexts, helping local congregations create a healthy environment for developing discipleship movements, and training others to pass on what they have received so far.
What is your leadership role or what were your past leadership roles?
I have been a youth leader in a couple of churches, a marketing manager, an associate pastor, and a ministry coordinator for Ambassadors for Christ International.
Why should someone invest in your ministry?
My organisation believes that, ultimately, the Church is God's instrument for this time and that the agent of discipleship is every believer. What we seek to do as an organisation is to implement the model of Jesus' ministry into communities in a form that is relevant to the people in the congregations but still retains the multiplicative potential for reaching the unreached.
