Ukraine | Discipling and Developing Local Ukrainian Churches
Opportunity Overview:
As the Ukrainian church seeks to be a faithful witness during this time of war, SEND Ukraine continues to look for new workers who are ready to enter local church life to equip Ukrainian believers to lead or participate in healthy, resilient, loving churches. Church-based disciplers will encourage believing church leaders in their ministries to think relationally, missionally, globally and to model these skills for them, currently within the context of war. How might God use you to make an impact? Come alongside Ukrainian believers and leaders who
• grapple with deep ongoing bodily risk on a daily basis.
• may currently experience trauma, mourning, and physical woundedness, or who care for the mourning, traumatized, and wounded.
• pivot regularly in an unstable context to meet profoundly urgent needs.
• and continue to consider how God might use Ukrainian believers in His global movement.
Come teach and process life within a local Ukrainian church, whose members do all this while sharing the hope of the kingdom as a local faith community.
Countries: Ukraine
Terms: Long-Term (3+ years), Mid-Term (1 - 3 years)
Responsibilities:
- Learn Ukrainian language and culture with the goal of ministry in Ukraine’s heart language.
- Build trusting relationships with believers in Ukraine, entering their worlds, and walking sensitively with them in the context of daily risk and mourning.
- Mentoring and encouraging people to grow in physical, emotional, spiritual resilience.
- Seek to energize believers in Ukraine to live out and share their faith in their local Ukrainian context or elsewhere, as many stay and many are scattered.
- Assisting in Bible studies, trauma healing groups, local humanitarian aid efforts, small groups, youth groups, camping ministry and depending on skill set, could also include preaching and teaching.
- Participate in daily church life, setting an example of love, mercy, character and evangelism in relationships.
- Value and celebrate the Ukrainian language and cultural heritage of the local church, while also valuing the multi-cultural nature of the global church.
Qualifications:
- Required education: Bible college certificate or higher.
- Active participation in a local church in one’s home culture.
- Experience leading and engaging in one-on-one and small group discipleship/mentorship/encouragement featuring study of the Bible/spiritual disciplines.
- Heart for the glory of God to bring redemption and flourishing Kingdom life to the unreached.
- Passion to make global followers of Christ who will spread the gospel.
- Growing ability to understand trauma, live resiliently in deep levels of instability, and hold pain and mourning with Ukrainian friends (trauma response training a plus).
- Ability to be a team player with fellow workers and nationals.
- Humility to work behind the scenes when needed and empower and encourage others to lead.
- A mature walk with Christ, and a life-long learner.
- Heart of a servant, flexibility and cultural sensitivity.
Start Date: Start dates are flexible and varied depending on the need of local teams in Ukraine, and the availability of qualified new workers.
Additional Information:
Our Local Vision
Since the 1990’s SEND International has been committed to nurturing healthy, multiplying churches in local Ukrainian communities, and training passionate, global disciple-makers. SEND Ukraine desires to nurture missional, gospel partners who can make a lasting impact throughout the world. The war hasn’t changed our foundational focus to train, disciple, grow leaders, believers, and churches. We are more deeply committed than ever to supporting Ukrainian churches as they seek to serve with resilience and to thrive even while plunged into wartime conditions.
