Having just returned from Ukraine, we have learned that there are things that are impacting the priorities of Potential Endeavors. These factors are:
- Because of the war and how the evangelical church provided for the needs of the people impacted by the war and the soldiers of Ukraine, the respect for the evangelical church in Ukraine has never been higher.
- The children of Ukraine are the ones who are most impacted by the realities of war. They have lost parents, relatives, and their ability to just be kids. They question what future they will have because of the war.
- People are searching for answers. What is their future? Why is there war? Where is God in all this? Because of what the church has done to help, people are turning to the church to find hope through Jesus Christ.
Because of these three realities, our priorities are focused on three things:
- Help start new churches through helping to develop pastors to lead these churches that are desperately needed.
- Provide training and resources to Children’s Ministry leaders to help them bring the day camp experience for kids into the church every Sunday.
- Help the churches and pastors that we have worked with who are doing ministry and reaching their communities for Jesus to expand their facilities and make more room for more people to attend.
We will accomplish these priorities in the following way:
- Offer training retreats to new pastors and their spouses. We had our first retreat last October and will do two more in 2024. We cover all costs for these retreats to provide and opportunity for these families to rest, be encouraged and trained for their future ministry.
- Provide training events for leaders of children’s ministries across all the regions of Ukraine. We cover all costs for these events. We held one retreat in October of 2023, and we will offer another one in fall of 2024. We will do additional trainings in regions during our other trips.
- Travel to Ukraine 3 times in 2024. We will provide training, meet with pastors and their spouses to encourage them. This will include trips closer to the areas that have been most heavily impacted by the war.
- Provide resources to churches and pastors that we have worked with to help them reach more of their communities for Jesus through expanded facilities and resources for aid to those impacted by the war.
- In addition, we will continue to look for partners who would like to support these new pastors and their churches for a 5-year period. This will be to provide funds for start up costs as well as resources to provide an income for the pastors so that they can focus all their energy on their church ministry.
This fund raiser is to help raise the resources to do this ministry in 2024.
