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Christian Mission to Former Soviet Union, Israel, Serves Up 31 Million Meals Since Ukraine War Began

Michael Johnson, president of Illinois-based Slavic Gospel Association (SGA), available for interviews.

NEWS PROVIDED BY
Slavic Gospel Association (SGA)
Feb. 19, 2025

LOVES PARK, Ill., Feb. 19, 2025 /Standard Newswire/ -- An Illinois-based Christian mission to the former Soviet Union and Israel has served up an incredible 31 million meals to hurting families through its network of local evangelical churches across the regions since the war in Ukraine began.

Slavic Gospel Association (SGA, www.sga.org) supports local evangelical churches and local missionary pastors across 11 time zones, stretching to Far East Russia where local teams take aid and the gospel to the coldest inhabited place on earth.

Established 91 years ago, it is the only U.S.-based mission organization currently operating in Russia through local church partners.

SGA president Michael Johnson, pictured, a frequent visitor to Ukraine, Israel, Russia, and the former Soviet nations, is available for media interviews at the NRB Convention in Grapevine, Texas, Feb. 24-27.

Johnson is an expert on the evangelical church movement in the region and will cover provocative topics including:

  • 3 YEARS ON: War has robbed Ukraine’s churches of men, husbands, fathers and pastors — leaving behind congregations of mostly grieving widows, anxious wives, and fatherless children.
  • The shattering grief and loss in Ukraine’s Christian community, and how young widows — many only recently married — are reaching out to help others despite their own pain, described by one widow as “an abyss of loneliness.”
  • The surprising story of how both Ukrainian and Russian-speaking evangelical churches in war-torn Israel are providing crucial humanitarian aid to suffering Israeli families — more than 1,200 miles from the war in Europe — including Ukrainian-Jewish refugees
  • The greatest needs of families and evangelical churches in both Ukraine and Israel as the conflicts continue, and the remarkable story of how SGA-supported local churches have supplied more than 31 million meals to hurting families since the war in Ukraine began (including more than 23 million meals to Ukrainian families and Ukrainian refugees)
  • Frostbite evangelism: The challenges of taking the gospel to the coldest inhabited place on earth in Russia’s Far East, where temperatures can plummet to minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit, or minus 50 degrees Celsius
  • From Covert to Center Stage: The 90-year story of Slavic Gospel Association’s unique ministry behind the Iron Curtain and continuing today in the former Soviet Union across 11 time zones

SOURCE Slavic Gospel Association (SGA)

MEDIA CONTACT:  To arrange your interview with Michael Johnson, contact: DeWayne Hamby, 423-505-0041 (text or phone), dhamby@inchristcommunications.com


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