Johana Carolina Luke, married to Doctor Thomas Luke in October of 2024. Since their marriage, Dr. Thomas Luke and Mrs. Johana Carolina Luke have combined their knowledge and spiritual gifts to serve Jesus as missionaries in Bali, Indonesia. Johana is an ordained deaconess serving at GPI Papua Bukit Zaitun Jayapura, a Presbyterian church, where she extends her influence in faith-based community service.

Dr. and Mrs. Luke, both single for over a decade, met on the Christian dating platform, Christian Cupid, in October 2023. Their courtship, conducted primarily through WhatsApp video calls, was guided by Christian psychologist H. Norman Wright’s teachings. They diligently worked through his courses: ‘101 Questions Before You Get Engaged,‘ ‘Before You Say I Do,‘ and currently, ‘After You Say I Do.’ In October 2024, Dr. Luke traveled to Bali, Indonesia, where he met Johana Carolina, an Indonesian citizen, for the first time in person and married her 48 hours later. The couple attributes their successful journey to their unwavering faith, as reflected in (2 Corinthians
5:7: ‘For we live by faith, not by sight.)

Johana received her Bachelor of Education in Teaching English as a Foreign Language from Cenderawasih University, Papua, Indonesia. She was also awarded a Chevening Scholarship and, in 2002, she pursued a Master of Arts in Culture and Communication at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom.

Mrs. Luke is currently working in Jayapura, Papua, Indonesia as the head of Tourism Promotion Section in the Marketing and Tourism Infrastructure Division of the Jayapura City Tourism Office. Her main responsibilities include managing and coordinating activities related to Jayapura Tourism Promotion, both inside and outside the province, and collecting data for tourism development purposes. She has been working as a government officer in Papua for 14 years and, in August 2024, was awarded a Satyalancana Karya Satya Badge from the President of the Republic of Indonesia.