Pastors of ECB Churche in Ukraine
Date of birth: 01.07.1980
Phone number: +380685850810
E-mail: artymuk.ivan01@gmail.com
Place of residence: p. Pidmanove of the Kovel district of the Volyn region
Information about the church: Church of Christ the Savior in the village Svityaz, 31 members.
Church service:
- serving internally displaced persons
- organization of children’s camps, trips to the East
What is your ministry: Presbyter
How many years in service: 20 years
Date of birth: 23.02.1986
Phone number: +380979374918
E-mail: zbcs71@gmail.com
Place of residence: village Novoarchangelsk Golovaniv district Kirovohrad region
Information about the church: EHB Church, 29 members (mostly elderly people)
Church service:
- preaching the Gospel
- social service to non-church people
- visiting a home for the elderly
What is your service: pastor, regional presbyter (if possible, I visit 6 churches), I break bread in three churches
How many years in service: 18 years old
How much time per week do you devote to service: 15 hours on average
Date of birth: 01.01.1984
Phone number: +380672807539
E-mail: burla-ik@ukr.net
Place of residence: m. Snyatyn Kolomyysk district Ivano-Frankivsk region
Information about the church: Church of Christ the Savior EHB, 15 members, most of them immigrants. 20–30 people are present at the services, among whom there are converts, those who have approached and those who are not churched
Church service: children’s and adolescent ministry
What is your ministry: Pastor
How many years in service: as a pastor for 3 years
How much time per week do you devote to service: 5 days a week
Date of birth: 26.06.1971
Phone number: +38509802905
E-mail: Andreygontar1971@gmail.com
Place of residence: m. Kivertsi of the Lutsk district of the Volyn region
Information about the church: “Kovcheg” EHB Church, p. Boat
Church service: assistance to families of military personnel
What is your ministry: pastor
How many years in service: 15 years
How much time per week do you devote to service: 4 evenings and Sunday
Date of birth: 18.03.1983
Phone number: +380938588708
E-mail: Kovdima843@gmail.com
Place of residence: s. Blagodatne Zolotonosha district Cherkasy region
Where is the House of Prayer: p. Kedyna Gora, Cherkasy region
Church service: help to military and needy people
What is your ministry: pastor; responsible for social service in the region
How many years in service: 7 years
How much time per week do you devote to service: 25–30 hours
Date of birth: 30.01.1984
Phone number: +380981229732
E-mail: kucherukpetro1984@gmail.com
Place of residence: m. Shepetivka, Shepetivka district, Khmelnytskyi region
Information about the church: village сhurch, 21 members
Church service:
- a general meeting every Sunday, attended by 6-10 unchurched people
- assistance to displaced persons, monthly aid trips to the east to the hospital to the military and to local churches
- youth services every Sunday, attended by 15-20 young unchurched people
- children’s services every Saturday, attended by 20-25 children
- holding a weekly home group for studying the Word of God
- organizing and holding a children’s camp for 100 children once a year on the basis of the church
- visiting the sick and the elderly
What is your ministry: Pastor in charge
How many years in service: a pastor for 7.5 years, before that he was a deacon for 3 years
How much time per week do you devote to service: 20–30 hours, depending on the situation
Date of birth: 30.07.1986
Phone number: +380971475518
E-mail: libeha555@gmail.com
Place of residence: m. Zvyagel, Zvyagel District, Zhytomyr Region
Where is the House of Prayer: p. Krapyvnia, Zhytomyr region
What is your ministry: pastor; pastoral care, preaching, teaching, children’s and youth ministries, conducting summer camps
How many years in service: 13 years youth leader, 3,5 years pastoral ministry
How much time per week do you devote to service: 10–20 hours or more
Date of birth: 03.07.1976
Phone number: +380979677666
E-mail: overks@ukr.net
Place of residence: s. Velika Pyatigirka Berdychiv District, Zhytomyr Region
Information about the church: EHB Church, 30 members
Where is the House of Prayer: p. Velika Pyatihirka, Zhytomyr region
Church service:
- service to the families of fallen soldiers
- the gospel
- Day center
- English school
- conducting home groups
- youth ministry
- baptism preparation group
- poison
What is your ministry: pastor, teacher, fireman, driver
How many years in service: 31 years old
How much time per week do you devote to service: 40–45 hours
Date of birth: 10.05.1980
Phone number: +380632308690
E-mail: savranskiy.s@gmail.com
Place of residence: m. Bila Tserkva, Bila Tserkva district, Kyiv region
Information about the church: Word of Truth EHB church, up to 30 members. Organized and registered in 2010. Goal: in joy to be consecrated to God (study of the Bible), to the Church (unity), to the Mission (preaching the Gospel) for the Glory of God.
Church service:
- preaching the Gospel (mainly non-believers come)
- service: to children (“One Way” club), teenagers, young people
- Day center
- assistance to families in difficult life circumstances
- women’s ministry: single mothers, war widows
- social service (we cooperate with the social service of our city)
- development of sports (floorball, football), running a design club for children
What is your ministry: Pastor
How many years in service: 6 years as a pastor, before that a missionary, assistant pastor
How much time per week do you devote to service: 48 hours; available to people 24/7
Date of birth: 13.05.1980
Phone number: +380988261254
E-mail: harukd8@gmail.com
Place of residence: m. Korostyshiv Zhytomyr district of Zhytomyr region
Information about the church: EHB Church, active since 2019, 10 members, 30 people attend
Church service:
- chaplain service
- children’s ministry
- holding small groups twice a week
- sports ministry (planned)
How many years in service: 8 years as a missionary, 5 years as a pastor
How much time per week do you devote to service: 20 hours plus overtime
Date of birth: 25.01.1980
Mobile phone: +380969427636
E-mail: –
Place of residence: Volyn oblast, Starovizhivskaya TG, Galina Volya
Church information: 72 members of the church
Where is the House of Prayer located: Galina Volya, st. Lesya Ukrainka
Ministry performed by the church:
- Children and teenagers service,
- outreach to nearby communities,
- choir service.
What is your service: Church elder
How many years in service: 4 years
What motivates you to stay in Ukraine and engage in service?
Responsibility before God for assigned service. Taking care of my father at retirement age. Love for my family and my people.
Date of birth: 25.03.1986
Mobile phone: +380977486404
E-mail: kaluchanatoliy@gmail.com
Place of residence: Volyn oblast, Kamin-Kashirskyi
Where is the House of Prayer located: Kamin-Kashirskyi, st. Kovelska 15
Ministry performed by the church:
- Serving children and families of fallen soldiers,
- chaplaincy,
- Sunday school,
- music and choir ministries,
- teen and family ministries, day center.
What is your ministry: Presbyter
How many years in ministry: Ordained 2017
What motivates you to stay in Ukraine and engage in ministry?
The call and faithfulness to God in serving His Church. There was no thought of leaving the country. Our family was determined to stay in Ukraine.
Date of birth: 09.07.1977
Mobile phone: +380989213979
E-mail: buenidad2@gmail.com
Place of residence: Buchach, Ternopil oblast.
Where is the House of Prayer located: Buchach
Church information: 9 members
Ministry performed by the church:
- Work with children with developmental disabilities,
- work with IDP families, IDP youth,
- camps,
- evangelism in rural schools,
- theme meetings,
- retreats,
- seminars for Sunday School teachers in the region.
What is your ministry: director of the NGO “House of Children”, missionary in Buchach
How many years in ministry: 17
What motivates you to stay in Ukraine and engage in ministry?
A calling from God
Date of birth: 01.11.1977
Mobile phone: 0966126069
E-mail: yakobchukav@gmail.com
Place of residence: Ternopil oblast, Berezhany.
Where is the House of Prayer located: Ternopil oblast, Berezhany, Lvovskaya str. 13
Church information: 37 members.
Ministry performed by the church:
- children’s,
- youth,
- worship,
- social ministry,
- humanitarian aid,
- information ministry,
- and IDP ministry.
We took in many families at the beginning of the war, and half of them are still with us.
What is your ministry: Church pastor, editor of “The Word about the Word”.
How many years in ministry: 13 years
What motivates you to stay in Ukraine and engage in ministry?
Vocation, dedication and love for your people and your homeland. The place in which we minister is safe; we have the opportunity to support and help those who are now in difficult circumstances.
Date of birth 11.12.1975
Mobile phone: 098-545-62-18
E-mail: vtarasenko683@gmail.com
Place of residence: Chernihiv oblast, Pryluky
Where is the House of Prayer located: Chernihiv oblast, Priluky, Partizanskaya str. 27a.
Information about the church: 84 Church members.
Ministry performed by the church:
- children’s and youth ministry,
- rehabilitation of alcohol and drug addicts,
- ministry for the visually impaired (UTOS), the Armed Forces, IDPs,
- support for bedridden people.
What is your ministry: Deacon, in Fr. Pastors
How many years in ministry: 13 years.
What motivates you to stay in Ukraine and engage in ministry?
Responsibility for the Church and serving people.
Date of birth: 05.11.1980
Mobile phone: +380992031890
E-mail: grigorenkooleksandr100@gmail.com
Place of residence: Kharkov region Izyum district Andreevka village
Where is the House of Prayer located: Kharkiv region, Izyum district, settlement Andreevka, str. Yablonovaya, 21.
Church information: number of members -22
Ministry performed by the church:
- Sunday school,
- youth,
- humanitarian assistance (not permanent),
- missionary support.
What is your ministry: Presbyter
How many years in ministry: 11 years (6 years ordained)
What motivates you to stay in Ukraine and engage in ministry?
During the occupation of Balakliya (15 km from our home), the front line was about 10 km away, there was considerable danger, but there was an understanding that I was needed in the church. Many people looked at the elder’s family and also persevered. I believe it was the Lord who gave me the confidence to stay where I was. Also, during the occupation of the settlements where our relatives and friends were, we had the opportunity to deliver humanitarian aid, necessities, food, gasoline, etc., which motivated us to stay and serve those in need.
Date of birth: 24.11.1975
Mobile phone: +380 98 376 36 29
E-mail: uraarcybasev548@gmail.com
Place of residence: Kharkiv oblast, Krasnokutskaya TG, Slobodka
Where is the House of Prayer located: Kharkiv oblast, Slobodka, Sonyachna st. 3
Information about the church: 12 church members
Ministry performed by the church: Social service (IDPs, military)
What is your ministry: Deacon, acting pastor
How many years in ministry: 5 years
What motivates you to stay in Ukraine and engage in ministry?
Love of God and country.
Date of birth: 14.09.1982
Mobile phone: +38 050-714-38-80
Place of residence: Kharkiv oblast, Roganskaya TG, Rogan.
Where is the House of Prayer located: Kharkov region, Roganskaya TG, Rogan, Vesela st. 4E
Church information: 22 church members
Ministry performed by the church:
- general ministry for adults and children,
- Sunday school for children and teenagers,
- teen and youth ministry,
- home groups and Bible studies,
- weaving protective nets for the military,
- distribution of food aid to church attendees and the local community,
- winter and summer day camps for local children, Christmas and Easter parties for children and teenagers with gift distribution,
- social ministry (financial assistance to the sick, assistance to other churches in their ministries, etc.)
What is your ministry: Pastor
How many years in ministry: 14 years (since 2011)
What motivates you to stay in Ukraine and engage in ministry?
First, it is a spiritual calling to serve the church and witness to the local people about salvation in Christ.
Date of birth: 05.12.1963
Mobile phone: +380631111353
E-mail: Orlov.nikgen@gmail.com
Place of residence: Kharkiv region, Kharkiv
Where is the House of Prayer located: Kharkiv region, Novaya Vodolaga, Privokzalna st.
Church information: 29 members.
Ministry performed by the church:
- Home groups,
- evangelism,
- weekly and Thursday services
What is your ministry: Pastor and head of the Christian Medical Association of the Kharkiv region.
How many years in ministry: Since 2000
What motivates you to stay in Ukraine and engage in ministry?
Love for God and His Church
Date of birth: 15.05.76
Place of residence: Kharkiv region, Kharkiv
Where is the House of Prayer located: Kharkiv region, Pechenigy
Information about the church: 18 members
Ministry performed by the church:
- Children’s club,
- evangelism to the military
What is your ministry: Pastor
How many years in ministry: 26 years old
What motivates you to stay in Ukraine and engage in ministry?
Love for God and your people
Date of birth: 16.03.1969
Place of residence: Kharkiv region, Zmievskaya MTG, Chemuzhevka
Where is the House of Prayer located: Kharkiv region, Zmiev, Metalist entrance st., 10
Church information: 20 members
Ministry performed by the church:
- Children’s
- Social
- Volunteer
- Servants for HPV
What is your ministry: Pastor
How many years in ministry: 22 years
What motivates you to stay in Ukraine and engage in ministry?
Love for God and people
Date of birth: 1.11.1997
Place of residence: Tsarichanka, Dnipropetrovsk region
Where is the House of Prayer located: Tsarichanka, Bazivska str. 5.
Church information: The church has 68 members.
Ministry performed by the church:
- ministry for children through children’s clubs in 4 localities
- serving children at a house of prayer through an educational school, helping children with education
- Sunday school for children
- serving people in the military and those affected by war
- home groups in four villages: Zalelia, Ivano-Yaryzivka, Chaplinka, Mogyliv.
- serving people with disabilities in the Mogyliv.
- material and spiritual assistance to the military serving and defending our country
- ministry for youth
- evangelism service on Sundays at the regional bazaar in Tsarichanka
- Gednon ministry of spreading the Word of God
What is your ministry: First Pastor of the Church
How many years in ministry: involved in various ministries of the Church since 2014.
What motivates you to stay in Ukraine and engage in ministry?
God’s calling. I have never wanted to leave the place where God found me and saved me. Therefore, I have a deep conviction to serve in this area for the salvation of the people, among whom many need the Gospel. And now, in this time of war, this need has multiplied because people are suffering from the attacks of the enemy, and the number of people in our area has increased due to displaced persons.
Date of birth: 08.06.1985
Place of residence: Sushky, Korostensky district, Zhytomyr region
Where is the House of Prayer located: Sushky, Tsentralna st. 44, Zhytomyr region.
Church information:
- newly organized reformed Baptist Church.
- Ministry performed by the church:
- social service
- support for families with children,
- moral,
- spiritual support for military families,
- camp children’s ministry.
What is your ministry: in. Pastor
How many years in ministry: 15 years
Date of birth: 26.08.1992
Place of residence: Kropyvnytsky, Kirovograd Region
Where is the House of Prayer located: Kropyvnytsky, Shulginykh st. 26/50
Church information: “Living Word” Church, 28 church members
Church service:
- Pastoral ministry with a focus on the younger generation. Preaching.
- Youth home groups.
What is your ministry: Director of youth work in the Kirovograd region. I am a youth leader. I teach a specialization in youth ministry in seminaries together with the Center for Youth Ministry in Ukraine.
How many years in ministry: Youth ministry for 12 years, regional youth ministry for 1 year. Pastor – since December 2024.
What motivates you to stay in Ukraine and engage in ministry?
Pain for the next generation in Ukraine who are already going abroad because of the current challenges of war.
Date of birth: 06.02.1977
Place of residence: Novoukrainka, Bashtansky district, Nikolaev region.
Church information: 7 ECB members
Ministry performed by the church:
- Prayer,
- children’s
What is your ministry: Pastor
How many years in ministry: 14 years
Date of birth: 9.10.1966
Place of residence: Sydory Kremenchug district
Where is the House of Prayer located: Sydory, Kovgozpna str. 3
Church information: “Ark of Salvation” Church, 24 members
Church service:
- Children’s,
- Sunday school,
- worship.
What is your ministry: Pastor
How many years in ministry: 33 years old
What motivates you to stay in Ukraine and engage in ministry?
Dedication and calling.
Date of birth: 23.10.1983
Place of residence: Poltava region, Velyka Rublyovka, Poltava district
Where is the House of Prayer located: Velyka Rublyovka, Tsentralna str. 36
Church information: 18 members
Ministry performed by the church:
- Prayer,
- Children’s,
- Teenage,
- Youth,
- Home groups,
- Sisterhood
What is your ministry: Pastor
How many years in ministry: 11 years old
What motivates you to stay in Ukraine and engage in ministry?
Dedication.
Date of birth: 16.03.1959
Place of residence: Mirgorod, Poltava region
Where is the House of Prayer located: Myrhorod, Kotlyarevsky str. 6
Church information: Church “Grace”
Church service:
- Groups for adults,
- children’s,
- sisterhood,
- home groups
What is your ministry: Pastor
How many years in ministry: 20 years
What motivates you to stay in Ukraine and engage in ministry?
Love and dedication.
Date of birth: 21.06.1966
Place of residence: Poltava region, Zinkiv
Where is the House of Prayer located: Poltava region, Zinkiv, Heroes of Ukraine str. 12
Church information: 60 members
Ministry performed by the church:
- Home groups,
- Children’s,
- Teenage,
- Youth,
- Men’s,
- Women’s,
- Prayer,
- Sports
What is your ministry: Pastor
How many years in ministry: 24 years old
What motivates you to stay in Ukraine and engage in ministry?
Dedication.
Date of birth: 03.03.2000
Place of residence: Poltava region, Poltava district, Kotelva
Where is the House of Prayer located: Poltava region, Poltava district, Kotelva, Poltavsky shlyakh 284
Church information: “Goodness”, 40 members
Church service:
- worship,
- media,
- children’s,
- home groups,
- prayer.
What is your ministry: Pastor
How many years in ministry: 8 years
What motivates you to stay in Ukraine and engage in ministry?
Dedication and calling.
Date of birth: 07/24/1972
Place of residence: Zinkiv, Poltava region
Where is the House of Prayer located: Zinkiv, Heroes of Ukraine str. 12
Church information: Church “Light of Salvation”
What is your ministry: Responsible for the departments – children’s, adolescent, youth, Missionary and Evangelism – responsible.
How many years in ministry: 17 years old
What motivates you to stay in Ukraine and engage in ministry?
Dedication to Jesus, calling from God.
Date of birth: 08.09.1966
Place of residence: Poltava oblast, Kremenchug
Where is the House of Prayer located: Kremenchug, David Kostrov st. 56
Church information: “Shining of God’s Glory”
Church service:
- Home Groups;
- Teenage,
- Children’s;
Ministry began in the village. Gradizhska and Onufrievka.
What is your ministry: Pastor
How many years in ministry: 25 years old
What motivates you to stay in Ukraine and engage in ministry?
Vocation and dedication
Date of birth: 06.01.1975
Place of residence: Poltava region, Svitlogorske
Where is the House of Prayer located: Poltava region, Svitlogorske, Petrenko str. 15
Church information: 14 members
Church service:
- Sisterly,
- sports.
What is your ministry: Pastor
How many years in ministry: 25 years old
What motivates you to stay in Ukraine and engage in ministry?
Dedication and calling.
Date of birth: November 4, 1982
Place of residence: Poltava region, Kremenchug
Where is the House of Prayer located: Kremenchug, Mazepa st. 37
Church information: Church “Compass”
Church service:
- Youth,
- “The Wise Carpenter” (teenage),
- Nursing,
- Children’s,
- prison.
What is your ministry: Pastor and director of the training program.
How many years in ministry: 25 years old
What motivates you to stay in Ukraine and engage in ministry?
A calling to serve the people.
Date of birth: 05.09.1988
Place of residence: Poninka, Khmelnitsky region
Where is the House of Prayer located: Poninka, Khmelnitsky region, Vyacheslava Chornovol st. 1
Church information: 33 members
Ministry performed by the church: We are involved in various ministries:
- with children,
- teenagers and youth,
- social ministry,
- ministry to military families and trips to the East and South to visit the military, etc.
The church loves the Lord and meets every Sunday for praise and worship. During the week we have home groups and various meetings. We learn to love God and each other by preaching the gospel.
What is your ministry: Pastor in charge of the church
How many years in ministry: I have been in pastoral ministry for 6 years.
What motivates you to stay in Ukraine and engage in ministry?
I am motivated to continue my ministry by my promise to God to follow His calling, which I have trusted! Also the pain of the Ukrainians, which is very great. I often remind myself of my heavenly citizenship, that this is all temporary and that I must do everything possible to spread the Kingdom of God in Ukraine.
Date of birth: February 14, 1989
Place of residence: Khmelnitsky region, Shepetovsky district, Grytsiv
Where is the House of Prayer located: Grytsiv, Ukrainska st. 14
Church information: 36 church members.
Ministry performed by the church:
- children’s and adolescents, youth, nursing,
- social (assistance with food products to IDPs and low-income people),
- organization of a new church in the neighboring village of Lotivka,
- chaplaincy ministry
- volunteers attending our meeting serve the families of fallen soldiers,
What is your ministry: Pastor
How many years in ministry: 10 years
What motivates you to stay in Ukraine and engage in ministry?
Calling from God. I want to be with Ukrainians when they go through war, suffering, death, loss of property.
Date of birth: 08.11.1997
Place of residence: Khmelnitsky region, Shepetovsky district, Seredintsy
Where is the House of Prayer located: Khmelnitsky region, Shepetovsky district, Seredintsy, Mira st. 152
Church information: The church has 17 (real) church members, 2 temporarily transferred to other churches, 2 brothers in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Also, 1 family was a missionary, but recently received official service. There is also another church for which we are responsible (50 km from us)
Ministry performed by the church:
- There is a children’s club
- youth and teenage club
- intellectual development club
- we are holding a “camp”
- We help people in need and IDPs
- We take an active part in volunteer chaplaincy service and knit camouflage nets.
What is your ministry: Pastor, chaplain
How many years in ministry: 8 years in ministry, pastor for 4 years, chaplain for 2 years.
What motivates you to stay in Ukraine and engage in ministry?
We have a ministry where we feel God has sent us. We also have a home and fertile land where God gives us the opportunity to work and grow the food we need to live.
Date of birth: 07.04.1988
Place of residence: Vilshana, Zvenigorod district, Cherkasy region.
Where is the House of Prayer located: Vilshana, Nyshnya Nabereshna str. 50
Church information: 20 members
Ministry performed by the church:
- Social ministry in the psychoneurological boarding school in Budyshche and with displaced persons
- Visiting geriatric institutions in Vilshana and Mliyiv
- children’s meetings in the orphanage in Vilshana
- youth ministry
- children’s camps
What is your ministry: Pastor
How many years in ministry: 13 years old
What motivates you to stay in Ukraine and engage in ministry?
People who have been witnessed to Christ for so many years, brothers and sisters. A mom who has a disability and a brother who is currently serving in the military.
Date of birth: 28.07.1973
Place of residence: Rivne region, Bereznivska MG, Novyi Mokvyn
Where is the House of Prayer located: Novyi Mokvyn, B. Khmelnitsky st. 50
Church information: 23 church members
Services performed by the church:
- Meeting,
- Sunday school with children,
- group with youth,
- work with non-believers,
- work with military families
What is your ministry: Pastor
How many years in ministry: Ordinations in 2013
What motivates you to stay in Ukraine and engage in ministry?
Love for the country in which I was born and live, service to God and people.