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Evgeni and Liliya Minin - military and students

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Mission: to Connect the student community and military personnel in such a way as to build spiritual and multiplying movements in Ukraine, using only simple, creative and easily transmitted methods of spreading the gospel and spiritual growth.

I (Evgeny) became a Christian in the Soviet Union at a military school. I immediately began to read and preach the Gospel. As a Soviet officer, I began attending a Protestant church in the city of Riga. The military leadership did not like that I preached Christ to my friends, officers, and soldiers. Even then, persecution began in the Soviet army, the KGB became interested in me, and eventually I had to be discharged from service. I moved to Nikolaev, married Lilia, was a church youth leader, preached in the church, taught at a Christian college, helped organize new churches, and then, together with my wife, started a new church, "Perlyna". In 2007, I graduated from the Evangelical Reformed Seminary of Ukraine. Since 2014, I have served as an officer and pastor among marine units.

A special event and important decision was the creation of the "Restore & Inspire" chaplaincy center in 2020, which provided spiritual and psychological support to the families of military personnel after their return from combat zones. The center began training volunteer chaplains from among former military personnel for the spiritual and psychological rehabilitation of all those returning from the war to their families.

After the full-scale invasion of the russian aggressor in 2022, the chaplaincy center became a hub for providing assistance to the civilian population in the conditions of constant shelling of the city and a humanitarian catastrophe, but the main focus remained providing assistance and support to families: the dead, missing, and active military personnel.

Almost all the men of the center and the church went to the front, but a large number of female volunteers continued the center's activities.

From 2020 to 2024, a large team consisted of about 40 volunteers who came to the chaplaincy center every day.Assistance was regularly provided to tens of thousands of people.

Since January 2023, I (Eugene) have been constantly in the combat zone as a full-time captain of the chaplaincy service and continue to remotely manage the "Restore & Inspire" center, the priorities of which are:

• families of the dead and missing,

• active military personnel and their families,

• wounded who enter the city.

Our ministry is an organization of spiritual, psychological and humanitarian support. My incredible wife Liliya also performs the duties of chaplain and administrator of the chaplaincy center. She directly and competently manages its work in my absence, takes care of more than a hundred families of the dead, missing, wounded military personnel and those at the front, holds Bible meetings with them, festive events, etc.

You can learn more about our work and events by writing to us by Email: evminin1969@gmail.com

We thank the Lord for protecting our lives, giving us incredible friends-partners, strength, and entrusting us with this blessed ministry in Ukraine during the most difficult crisis for our people.

THANK YOU!!!