Ukraine Response - Mission to the World

UA Ukraine Crisis Church Fund

Project # 90965

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If donating by check, please mail to MTW, P.O. Box 744165, Atlanta, GA 30374-4165. Note project 90965 in memo. Thank you.

Your gifts allow the MTW crisis response teams in Lviv, Ukraine and Krakow, Poland continue to care for evacuated Ukrainian families and transport humanitarian aid into Ukraine. These crisis response teams provide displaced Ukrainians shelter, food, clothing, and medical supplies. Similar crisis response teams in Romania and Slovakia offer the same short-term care for Ukrainian refugees.

Besides supplying the necessities, MTW crisis response teams offer places for Ukrainian families to regroup as they reorient themselves after fleeing their homes to escape the Russian invasion. Your donations keep facilities where displaced civilians gather for meals, access the internet, and organize activities for their kids running.

Funds also support Ukrainian-led crisis response teams in Kharkiv, Odesa, Kyiv, Nikolaev, Kherson, Lviv, Belgorod Dnestrovsky, and Ivano-Frankivsk. Convoys of nine-passenger vans full of supplies have been delivered to churches in Ukraine who then distribute humanitarian aid to people in their community who are in desperate need. Transportation has been provided for churches in Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa, Kherson, and Kharkiv, so those who remain have access to medical and personal hygiene products, gas masks, solar panels (for electricity), and other basic supplies. Delivering aid to people in Ukraine living under the immediate threat of the Russian advancement would not be possible without your generosity.

Finally, your gifts continue to support MTW missionaries and local staff committed to ministry efforts and sharing the gospel. MTW missionary Bob Burnham, who served in Odesa, Ukraine, for 27 years, said they have moved from triage—getting people out, finding them a home, food, and clothing—to addressing the significant emotional and spiritual needs of those living in the evacuated communities. The Burnhams have been able to have regular church service, Bible studies, and prayer sessions at the evacuation shelter in Romania where they are currently living. Other MTW workers in Slovakia, Lviv, and Krakow are gathering believers in the name of Jesus and encouraging Christians to be salt and light to the unbelievers in their midst. Your contributions help the church in the region be the hands and feet of Jesus to scared Ukrainians suffering from the trauma of war. Thank you for giving and please continue to pray for peace in Ukraine.

Who We Are

Mission to the World has been working in Ukraine since the earliest days of her independence in the 1990s. Through God’s amazing providence, we have seen Him raise up 15 churches having a total of approximately 1,000 members, establish the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Ukraine (EPCU) as a new denomination, and begin a seminary. Many of the cities in which these churches exist have come under attack. We are appealing for your help for the sake of the churches, the pastors, and the people of these churches.

Who We Are

Where We Are

We are seeking to raise funds to bring relief to the refugees, support to the brave pastors who remain with their churches, and make plans for rebuilding. Our original goal was $2 million but as the crisis has evolved and escalated, we realize that there are many, many more needs than we anticipated. There are immense needs now but as the dust settles the needs will be even greater as we rebuild and replant churches. We have a large team at work in the western city of Lviv and are partnering with churches and mission teams in neighboring countries.

What follows is our vision for how we can accomplish these things. Please remember that this is our plan today. Due to the extremely fluid nature of the crisis, we expect that these plans will be revised many times.