Sar Shalom Missionaries to Slovakia

Vic, Darla, Dominic & Ana D'Ettorre

Visit their website at: http://slovakiadettorres.blogspot.com/

 

 

We are from Willard, Ohio and began attending services at Sar Shalom in early 2006. Our introduction to Messianic fellowships began 2 years  before, when friends of ours invited us to attend their services in  the Akron area. It wasn't long after visiting Sar Shalom that we wanted to call it ”home.” We were receiving great teaching, and loved  the music and dancing. During this same time, we also were asking God about overseas work, specifically teaching. My wife and I are both certified teachers, and our desire has been to  go somewhere on this earth where we could use our abilities as teachers to further the Kingdom of God. We especially wanted to go to  share the Gospel of hope to people that had possibly never even heard of salvation through Yeshua Messiah. Our prayers were answered, and God has allowed us to go to Slovakia. Though there are Christians in this country, there also is a void, a definite population that has not  heard the message of salvation and love.

We arrived in August of 2006,  and are planning on a 3 year stay. Our primary responsibility is to teach at CS Lewis, a bilingual School. CS Lewis is a Christian High school by charter, but it actually has a mission emphasis. Most of the students that attend the school are not Christians. The school operates within Biblical principles, and students have the opportunity to hear the Gospel primarily through direct contact with the teachers. Darla also teaches part-time at BERC, an educational resource center for English speaking  students that are home schooled. These students are typically from US missionary families, but there are also families here on business that  use the services that BERC provides.

We have 4 children, two of which are still in the states. Our son Korry is newly wed to a lovely girl named Jen, and our daughter Kayla  is a recent high school graduate experiencing life as an independent  adult. Dominic, 11, and Ana, 8, are with us, and are very vital to God's mission for us here. We talked together before accepting this  position, and we all agreed that it would be a family mission, with  the children sharing in the responsibility to bring hope and light to anyone that needs to know our Lord.