Ukraine Ministries

Ukraine – the largest European country and one of the most beautiful ones with a population of nearly 48 million people. It has been independent for over 30 years now. During the past years of the world’s recession and an ongoing war Ukraine was hit badly with tripled devaluation of national currency, which doubled the prices for virtually everything, highest unemployment rate ever, unprecedented economy crisis among other things and crowns it all a tripled crime rate. City of Dnepropetrovsk, the eastern center of Ukraine with almost one million people in it and only ten Baptist churches, is where JEM conducted its ministries with the Eugene Kozachenko family for the past 25 years
and since year 2024 has another Ambassador in the country – Nikita Kozachenko, working under the leadership of Dr. Henry Benach overseen by Eugene Kozachenko who has relocated to the US in 2024.
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Overviewing all of the work accomplished by the Kozachenko Family Ministry for the past 25 years – this verse of Scripture reflects the essence of their service to the Lord in Ukraine is Acts 20:21. Their ministry has always been divided into two major parts – ministering to the unsaved, and to Christians, always bearing Jewish Missions in mind! In that – 60% of their attention was focused on Dnepropetrovsk (Jerusalem), 30% to all-Ukraine (Judea and Samaria) and 10% to the international work (uttermost parts of the world).

Today the work in Ukraine is very much ongoing – two local Baptist churches (Eastern Gate Baptist and Menorah Baptist) that were started in 2002 and 2017 respectively are actively reaching the lost and strengthening the saints. Street preaching and gospel tracts distributions as well as door-to-door visitations never stop. Preaching in villages and smaller towns, conducting teaching seminars, holding evangelization meetings are the monthly activities. Since the start of the war in Ukraine in 2014, and especially since the full-blown Russian invasion in 2022, military aspect of the ministry was added reaching soldiers with the Gospel at the front lines, military bases, boot camps and especially at the local hospitals. Ministering to the families of the soldiers is a big part of the overall work as well as evangelizing the refugees and supplying them with a much-needed humanitarian aid. Hundreds of thousands of Gospel tracts are printed and distributed as well as New Testaments and other Gospel literature.

Several times a year small evangelistic groups from USA come in to assist in the ministry in Ukraine. They consist of pastors, missionaries, church members and lay workers. Bigger scale evangelistic events are held at that time.

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In the days ahead it is the desire of JEM to plan additional Outreaches into this needy and fruitful country.