Michael Johnson, president of Illinois-primarily based completely mostly Slavic Gospel Association (SGA), readily available for interviews.
LOVES PARK, In unhappy health. — An Illinois-primarily based completely mostly Christian mission to the weak Soviet Union and Israel has served up an awfully most energetic 31 million meals to hurting families thru its community of native evangelical church buildings across the regions since the battle in Ukraine started.
Slavic Gospel Association (SGA) supports native evangelical church buildings and native missionary pastors across 11 time zones, stretching to A ways East Russia the effect native teams take encourage and the gospel to the coldest inhabited situation on earth.
Established 91 years previously, it’s basically the most convenient U.S.-primarily based completely mostly mission group currently working in Russia thru native church companions.
SGA president Michael Johnson, pictured, a frequent customer to Ukraine, Israel, Russia, and the weak Soviet worldwide locations, is straight away available for media interviews on the NRB Convention in Grapevine, Texas, Feb. 24-27.
Johnson is an expert on the evangelical church movement in the effect and might maybe more than possible well quilt inviting topics including:
- 3 YEARS ON: War has robbed Ukraine’s church buildings of males, husbands, fathers and pastors — forsaking congregations of mostly grieving widows, anxious wives, and fatherless early life.
- The shattering distress and loss in Ukraine’s Christian community, and how younger widows — many handiest no longer too long previously married — are reaching out to relieve others no subject their private grief, described by one widow as “an abyss of loneliness.”
- The classy story of how each and each Ukrainian and Russian-talking evangelical church buildings in battle-torn Israel are providing critical humanitarian encourage to suffering Israeli families — larger than 1,200 miles from the battle in Europe — including Ukrainian-Jewish refugees
- Potentially the most energetic wants of families and evangelical church buildings in each and each Ukraine and Israel as the conflicts proceed, and the a lot story of how SGA-supported native church buildings be pleased supplied larger than 31 million meals to hurting families since the battle in Ukraine started (including larger than 23 million meals to Ukrainian families and Ukrainian refugees)
- Frostbite evangelism: The challenges of taking the gospel to the coldest inhabited situation on earth in Russia’s A ways East, the effect temperatures can plummet to minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit, or minus 50 degrees Celsius
- From Covert to Middle Stage: The 90-one year story of Slavic Gospel Association’s weird and wonderful ministry on the encourage of the Iron Curtain and persevering with today in the weak Soviet Union across 11 time zones
To contend with your interview with Michael Johnson, contact:
DeWayne Hamby
Slavic Gospel Association
(423) 505-0041 (text or cell phone)
[email protected]
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