About Us

​History
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Life Fellowship Bulgaria was started in January 2022. Life Fellowship is a church plant started by missionary Ryan Fischer with support from his wife Stacey Fischer. Ryan and Stacey were commissioned by Hickory Grove Baptist Church in the United States as global church workers in 2018. 

Leadership

Ryan Fischer - Pastor
Ryan graduated from The Master’s University with a degree in Biblical Languages and a minor in Biblical studies in 2005. While in college he served on High School Staff at Grace Community Church in Los Angeles, California and later as a pastoral intern at Northside Baptist church in Charlotte, NC. Upon graduation, Ryan led the youth ministry at Grace Church of Tirana, Albania. After returning to the US, he served in various churches until the Lord called he and his wife to Bulgaria in 2019. Ryan and Stacey have been commissioned as missions workers by Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Charlotte, NC. Ryan is currently completing his ACBC certification from Association of Certified Biblical Counselors. He has been married 16 years to his wife Stacey and they have four beautiful children, Autumn, Olivia, Grace and Knox.

Church Advisory Board

Dr. Blake Maxwell
Discipleship Pastor
Hickory Grove Baptist Church, Charlotte, North Carolina 

Dr. Michael Zgoda
Elder
​Dessert Hills Bible Church, Glendale, Arizona 

Alex Lavall
Advisor
​Life Fellowship International, Sofia, Bulgaria

Staff

Natalija Gura - Church Secretary

Interim Teachers
Life Fellowship periodically welcomes additional seminary graduates holding to our statement of faith to preach.


​Elder Led
It is the expressed hope of the leadership at Life Fellowship Bulgaria that Life Fellowship would be a church that honors God - from the plurality of elders to the ministry of the body He has assembled. To this end, our desire is to become an elder led church in the coming years.

Doctrine
Life Fellowship is committed to the following Essential Truths:

• the glory of God as the chief end of everything we do as a church and as individual believers.
• the Lord, Savior, and Author & Perfecter of our faith is Jesus Christ.
• the inerrancy, total authority, and complete sufficiency of the Bible.
• the expository preaching of the Word of God that focuses on understanding scripture and applying it to the believer’s life.
• the leadership being made up of called, trained, and qualified men who sacrificially and lovingly shepherd the flock.
• the ministry of all believers in the local church as we grow in spiritual maturity, fellowship, and love for one another.
• the promotion of strong, healthy, God-centered marriages and families.
• the equipping of a Biblically literate, sanctified congregation to evangelize our community.
• the committing of all of the above in prayer, submitting ourselves to the will of God.

Our Doctrinal Statement

Recommended Resources 

Books, sermons, and articles related to the ministry of John MacArthur.

Books, sermons, articles, and devotionals related to the ministry of the late R.C. Sproul.

Global network of seminaries training pastors with a foundational start in Eastern Europe in the early 1990's.

Resources, training and certification to promote excellence and doctrinal integrity in biblical counseling.

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