Rebecca Sanden
Rebecca Sanden is a Canadian missionary from Kamloops, B.C. currently serving in Chernivtsi, Ukraine. For the last 5 years she has been involved in discipleship evangelism through the avenue of English, working as a part of the leadership team for EWay (https://www.ewaymissions.org/about), a Christian English School for youth and adults under a local church (https://www.grace.cv.ua/en/). Rebecca works alongside Ukrainian volunteers and another North American missionary to provide a place for Ukrainians who want to learn English for use in work, study, to move abroad or communicate with those who have left the country due to the war. Using an English/Ukrainian Bible as the basis for conversation classes, home groups and small group discipleship also opens opportunities to discuss what is truly important. Currently, about a third of the students attending EWay have been displaced from other parts of the country and more have relatives serving in the military or who have died on the frontlines. Finding new ways to practically show God’s love, extend hope, peace and light, has become even more essential in her and EWay’s ministry. Two additional ways they do this are by supporting the local church’s humanitarian trips to liberated areas of Kherson (southern Ukraine) and other places affected by the war, as well as holding annual camps and retreats away from the city to facilitate psychological rest and evangelistic outreach.