The Speak Life Podcast Oppression Means Opportunity || Interview Cedo Ralevic || SLP 345
Persecution is a context not a complex. On this show we talk to Čedo Ralević, a Serbian church planter and theological educator, who grew up under genuine persecution in the former Yugoslavia.
Čedo was born in 1949 in Kosovo and Metohija. He was born in a communist country, under Tito's rule (who died in 1980).
In the year 1964 Čedo became a Christian in 1964 through the witness of his older brother, Simo. He was baptized in 1967 in Novi Sad. From September 1970 until 1974 Čedo studied theology in Novi Sad, North Serbia. After finishing his studies he became a pastor in a small place in Macedonia. He returned to Serbia in October 1980, moving to Niš with his family, and he began a mission work of planting churches and spreading the Gospel all over South of Serbia.
Čedo remains in Niš where today there are many more churches. Together with his brother Simo and son Emanuel, he founded Balkan Theological Seminary in 2013 which seeks to raise up many more gospel ministers for Serbia and beyond.