People aren’t lining up to be missionaries in Ukraine right now, as Lamar Schubert has discovered. He and his wife Aubrey work with Slavic people and Eastern European churches, but they had to evacuate Ukraine when war began in February 2022.
As cluster leader of International Mission Board missionaries, Schubert helped missionaries transfer to other areas where they could still serve Slavic people, but Schubert’s passion for the war-torn country continues.
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“We were devastated because a lot of the missionaries who evacuated served 15 or 20 years,” Schubert said. Devastation described the current work, but he also wondered what future ministry in Ukraine would look like.
Last October, Schubert received a call from John Barnett, who serves as the director of diaspora mobilization for Southern Baptists. He informed Schubert about an initiative involving seven U.S. Slavic Christian networks that were interested in forming a partnership. The goal of this partnership was to reach Eastern European people not only in the United States but also those back in Ukraine and other parts of Europe where they have scattered because of the war.
EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Chris Doyle and originally published by the International Mission Board.
