Mission to the World (MTW) prepares and services over 500 long-term missionaries and over 1200 missionaries, interns and trip participants in 104 countries around the globe. Since 1994, MTW has equipped 100 missionaries to serve in Ukraine.

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Here is how the war has affected MTW’s decades-long church planting work in Ukraine.

OUR FOCUS

Since February 2022, MTW missionaries and the pastors and members of 15 partner churches of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Ukraine are on their knees seeking the Lord’s mercy, protection, and wisdom. The churches in western Ukraine and MTW missionaries in Ukraine, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia cared for refugees in the early months of the war. As the war continues, needs continue to grow: generators for power, food, supplies, clothing, and housing. In Kharkiv, three out of every four church members been displaced from their homes. The needs are huge, especially as we consider rebuilding or replanting churches in the future. God’s church has responded with prayer and with generous donations. Please continue to pray to our sovereign Lord for His grace and mercy in this ongoing time of great need.

Our plan for post-war Ukraine centers around healing and building. Healing wounds: physical, emotional, and spiritual, and building stronger ministers, ministries, and churches. The longer the damage is inflicted, the longer this healing will take. We are preparing now to be able to launch these future efforts; developing a non-military army of counselors, builders, and church-planters, which will continue in conjunction with our long-established relationship with the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Ukraine.

OUR PLAN

We have three goals for a post-war Ukraine. Relief, Rebuild, and Restore:

Relief: Trauma has touched every house in Ukraine; our hope is to train counselors and trauma professionals to resource each church and person in our denomination. We will give families and those who have been working in the church through the war a break, and an opportunity to obtain counseling to help them process.
Rebuild: Our goal is to rebuild any damaged churches and ensure future ministry. We also want to help those refugees from our congregations who fled abroad to return. We hope to rebuild the denomination through structures, members, and training.
Restore: It is our goal to prepare to plant churches in a post-war Ukraine. We are praying that the spiritual ground would be laid, and that people will be pursuing a higher security that only Christ can provide. We would love to see the EPCU denomination double to more than 30 churches in ten new cities in the future.

To accomplish this work, we need workers – interns, short-term missionaries, long-term missionaries, retired pastors, counselors and the list goes on.

Mission: At the request of the Ukrainian Church and our national partners, we are called to provide personal and humanitarian aid – direct from the hands of churches in the U.S. to the hands of churches and displaced communities in Ukraine.

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