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Jaroslaw Lukasik

Jaroslaw Lukasik
Person Details
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Country

  • Ukraine
Participants Details

ELF Network

  • 2024 Politics and Society Network

Ministry Focus

  • Ministry Administration and Service

Occupation

  • Christian Organisation

Funding Status (ELF)

  • Needs ELF Funding
Participants Answers
What is your ministry?

I am the Eastern European Leadership Forum director, an event similar to the European Leadership Forum that targets Russian-speaking Christians from Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Moldova, and other Eastern European countries. In addition, I teach theology courses at seminaries in Ukraine. I am also a regular speaker in various churches and conferences in Ukraine and initiator of the “Christians for Ukraine” initiative. In addition, I am the president of the Eastern Europe Reformation Foundation, which organizes humanitarian aid for Ukraine, and one of the founders and Director of the Christian Open Academy and chief redactor of the Christians for Ukraine media resource.

When did you trust Christ?

I trusted in Christ in 1987 at a youth camp.

What have been the defining moments of your Christian walk?

One of the strongest defining moments for me occurred when I heard God’s call to preach the Gospel in the Soviet Union. Several teachers also helped me at various other stages of my life.

What do you hope to gain from participating?

I first attended the European Leadership Forum in 2009. I received good teaching regarding how the Spirit speaks to the church today. I also received beautiful and deep messages that I have used in my work in Eastern Europe. I want to build Christian networks and I have met Christian leaders at the Forum who I have invited to visit our locations in Belarus and Ukraine. Some of them have been able to help us with seminars, conferences, and round tables on apologetics during our autumn and spring conferences. I am thankful for this knowledge and these relationships.

What is your leadership role or what were your past leadership roles?

I planted a church in Minsk, Belarus, in which almost all the members were young, highly educated people. After 13 years, I was deported (like many other missionaries and Catholic priests) and I moved my family to Kiev, Ukraine. In 2001, several of us started the New Reformation Movement, which served to create unity among the evangelical churches and denominations, assisting Protestant churches in Eastern Europe in their activities in society, and spreading the Christian worldview into various spheres of society.

Why should someone invest in your ministry?

I’m very open to what the Lord wants to do in my life and ministry through His servants. Currently, that has a lot to do with the war in Ukraine. I am involved in relief and have a crucial ministry in the context of the trauma as a result of the war.