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Contributors
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JOSUE ALVARADO
is a pastoral resident at College Church who is passionate for expositional preaching to communicate God’s Word effectively. He enjoys spending time with his family, edifying con-versations with friends, drinking Honduran coffee and watching European soccer games.
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JON DEMOSS
is a senior at Wheaton College studying communications. He works as a furniture retoucher at Furniture Medics in Carol Stream. He loves the outdoors, photography and using Photoshop to create surreal imagery and concept art.
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ANITA DEYNEKA
serves with Mission Eurasia, an organization she and her husband, Peter, founded. She works with A Home For Every Orphan to help promote in-country Christian adoptions around the world. She has authored several books including A Song in Siberia and Christians in the Shadow of the Kremlin.
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OLEKSANDR GEYCHENKО
is the president of the Odesa Theological Seminary, one of the partner seminaries College Church supports around the world. Odesa is in the eastern area of Ukraine where Russia has invaded.
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SARAH LINDQUIST
serves with the Sanctity of Human Life Task Force. She homeschools her young sons and teaches violin, viola, and performing ensembles at Community School of the Arts at Wheaton College. When time allows, she enjoys working in her garden and admiring historic architecture.
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JOSH MAURER
Now pastor of discipleship, Josh Maurer previously served as a pastoral resident. He also teaches at Wheaton College as an adjunct professor in Bible and theology, where he is completing his PhD in New Testament and Biblical Theology. He and his wife, Caitlin, have four children.
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MORGAN MOXLEY
is a current graduate student at Wheaton College, and she is studying humanitarian and disaster leadership. She would like to use her skills as a writer to share stories about refugees in local and global communities. As a young member of College Church, she hopes to encourage her generation to continue to seek Christ and rely on his Word of truth.
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CHERYL WARNER
Cheryl and her husband, Charley, serve with Barnabas International in Ukraine. They teach missions students and help churches mobilize and care for Ukrainian missionaries. They pray to be able to return soon to their home in Irpin.
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CHAD & LEANNA WIEBE
The Wiebes have served with SEND International for 27 years. They worked for 14 years in theological education with the Krasnoyarsk Bible College in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. For the past 13 years they’ve been living in Kyiv, Ukraine, helping national churches train and send their own missionaries cross culturally. Currently, Chad is ministry director of SEND Ukraine.
COVER IMAGE: Stained glass detail from Irpin Bible Church in Irpin, Ukraine