Our Mission to our Sister Church in Uzhgorod, Ukraine 

 

Pastor Alla from Uzhgorod Methodist Church in Uzhgorod, Ukraine.

 

Your Missions Team has built a relationship with the Uzhgorod Methodist Church in Uzhgorod, Ukraine that is changing lives for the better.

The Methodist presence in Ukraine has a long and impactful history.

In 1923 the US Board of Methodist Missions purchased a church in Uzhhorod Ukraine to support the growing Methodist community in Uzhhorod. That church was led by Ivan Vuksta through years of persecution by the Soviet government. In the 1950’s the church was taken away and worship was forbidden, but the church continued underground. The church reopened in 1983 and has grown steadily. Ivan’s son Vasyl together with Vasyl’s wife Alla later assumed the leadership of the Uzhhorod Church and the nearby Kamenitsya Methodist Church, with Alla leading the Kamenitsya church.

During the current war both the Uzhhorod and Kamenitsya churches are taking in displaced people while also assisting the Methodist church refugee center. A second refugee center was opened this year with church staff supporting both centers, allowing most of the displaced people in the church to move to the more comfortable refugee centers. Several displaced people still live in the Kamenitsya church and an additional 90 people are supported in the two refugee centers.  The work of the Cathedral Ukraine Mission supports the work of Vasyl and Alla Vuksta, allowing them to continue full time in their work.

Our Ukraine Missions Team members meet monthly with the Uzhgorod pastoral staff via Zoom, raise financial support, manage prayer requests, and raise awareness of the conditions and needs in Uzhgorod.

If you would like to learn more, contact Dr. David Boan at missions@boisefumc.org.

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Tijuana Christian Mission

The Tijuana Christian Mission serves God through serving the needy children of Mexico – children who come to them from broken homes or from no home at all, who have learned to make a life for themselves on the streets. Mission teams from the Cathedral have assisted with on-site maintenance and construction, as well as off-site construction of new homes for families in need.

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