M4 Europe
M4 Europe

JOURNEY CHURCH
LVIV, UKRAINE

Vision

  • WHY: Being people oriented; everyone fulfils their life mission; reaching people & being around them, not separated from non-church people
  • WHAT: Relationships, community, support; resources for everyone
  • HOW: Mentoring & coaching in various formats; limited number of church ministries; developing external platforms for reaching people and partnerships
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Lviv

  • The center of the Western part of Ukraine
  • A very religious place, as well as a city filled with IT expertise and many tourists.
  • Around 1 million inhabitants

Some 30 evangelical churches; 10 of them have more than 100 members

Team

The leader of the team, Yaroslav Pyzh has been the President of Ukrainian Baptist Theological Seminary (UBTS) in Lviv, Ukraine, since 2014. UBTS has a strong emphasis on missional mentality in all ministries and a church planting program. Yaroslav is actively involved in developing the church planting movement in Ukraine. He is a National Leader of M4 Ukraine as well as has hosted one of the Exponential roundtables in Ukraine in 2020. Yaroslav was part of a church planting team three years ago (Ukrainian Bible Church, Lviv, Ukraine).

There are 25 people on the team. We are in the initial phase of planting a church. The team will join the M4 Team Process in fall 2021.

Plan

Plan for the next 12 months:

  • Develop foundational documents (mission, vision, values, goals) by June 1
  • Engage 90% of the team in mentoring/coaching relationships by September 1
  • Start the 2nd church campus with 50 people by December 1
  • Expose to the Gospel 100 people on a monthly basis by using the three “platforms” where the team is already fully present (ministry to orphans and teenagers from the poor families; businessmen community and Prayer breakfast with non-church university-level educators).
  • Engage at least 15-20 people in personal mentoring/coaching relationships by December 1
  • Train a team of leadership for the 2nd church campus and find a location by December 1

In 3-5 years, we will:

  • Have 3-5 new church campuses
  • Have a core leadership team of 15-20 people
  • Develop strong ties with the city through professional involvement of church members in the marketplace
  • Develop the church-wide coaching/mentoring practices
  • Engage 80% of the church members into an active Kingdom mentality through their professional involvement

Recommendation from the M4 Europe leader Øivind Augland

Jaroslav is a pioneer leader with a lot of proven fruit in his life. The fact that he wants to model church planting to a new generation, moving out and taking leadership in this locally, expresses a lot of the attitude and values in Jaroslav’s life and ministry. I highly recommend him and his new initiative.

Affiliation

We are part of the Ukrainian Baptist Union and strongly connected to the Ukrainian Baptist Theological Seminary.

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