Ross & Shona McGaughran
Workers in Austria
Ross and Shona with Eden & Keziah moved to Austria at the end of 2024. After a complicated process, they eventually received their visas and have settled in well in Dornbirn. Their focus for the next year or so, is language study. They will alternate between one of them doing an intensive language course, and the other one of them consolidating and practicing what they have learnt in the language course.
They long for people in Austria to pick back up the long discarded moral compass of religion, and see instead of dead traditions, a living Christ. They aim to be heavily involved in discipling many to deeper faith in Christ in the Vorarlberg region.
Alex & Liz Preotesea-Wagner
Workers in Romania
Liz and Alex with their children Caleb and Luca have recently settled in Cernavoda, south-eastern Romania. Their vision is to help guide young people away from human trafficking and see families transformed using Alex’s passion for furniture making and Liz’s skills as a lactation consultant.
Liz, from New Zealand, and Alex, a Romanian, previously served in Cernavoda for two years when they were first married. They work alongside the local church in Cernavoda and the Nightingales Children’s Charity, both of whom are involved in the work of preventing human trafficking.
Andrew Jones
Candidate for the Czech Republic
Andrew Jones was born in New Zealand but spent most of his life overseas, pastoring churches in USA and Australia and training church planters globally as he travelled the world in a motorhome with his wife and 5 children.
Now widowed and having his kids move on, he is returning back to Prague, Czech Republic, where he used to live many years ago, to continue to train pastors and missionaries in new expressions of church and online ministry.
Anna Tovey
Candidate for Romania
Anna's family heritage in missions and personal sense of God's calling led her to work in Romania and Kenya for 8 years. Since 2023, the calling to Romania has been insistent. She hopes to serve in a juvenile detention centre, where she believes her skills can be used.
Prayers would be appreciated as she seeks further guidance from God as to her place and role back in Timisoara. Please also pray for her as she seeks to build partnership connections of ongoing prayer and financial support.
Caren
Candidate for Germany
Some may say that I am the least likely candidate for such a place: a foreigner, a medical professional and not your “typical” cross-cultural worker. Part of me would agree. Then, there is the other part who looks at Jesus, in the midst of the crowd of hungry people, and comes to Him, offering my few loaves and fish.
I plan to go as someone sent with a special skill-set, to work amongst other healthcare workers and the sick. I also plan to go to be part of a church plant community, with the boldness of Jesus’ promise that the world will know that He is the Christ.
Féy Cotter
National Director for ECM NZ
Féy and Murray were church planting and disciple making with ECM in Albania from 1996-2002 and 2011-2018. For five years Féy was also a regional leader in the Balkans. After returning to New Zealand In 2018 Féy was appointed as a mobiliser for NZ, and then as the National Director for ECM NZ.
Féy's primary focus is to make ECM known in New Zealand, and to facilitate people in New Zealand to join in with what God is doing in Europe, whether this is through 'going' (long term or short term) or 'supporting' (financially or prayerfully) those who feel called to go.
