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Gennadiy Mokhnenko was born in February 27 Donetsk area, Ukraine, in the family of factory workers. In 1991 he had taken a year course in the Bible school in Vilnius, Lithuania. In 1992 he founded the church where he has been a senior pastor ever since. Pastor Gennadiy Mokhnenko from the early years of the Church of Good Changes in Mariupol alongside with its board has been taking an active part in the charity work that renders all kind of social support and help to the least defended layer of the population – street kids.
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Stories of resilience: a chaplain, pastor from Mariupol, and a volunteer who survived Russian captivity
12.05.2025
Pastor and chaplain Gennadiy Mokhnenko and volunteer Azat Azatyan recall the Russian occupation of Mariupol and the evacuation of civilians, especially children
‘I Don’t Need Permission to Do Good Deeds’: A Justice-Loving Ukrainian Pastor Speaks Truth to Power
08.03.2025
Gennadiy Mokhnenko, part of the 200-member chaplain battalion in Ukraine, was driving away from the front lines when he noticed a Russian kamikaze drone trailing him. “I pushed down on all the gas,” he told me. “My car was just a little faster than the drone.”
“Freedom is My Highest Value”: An Interview with Pastor and Chaplain Gennadiy Mokhnenko
18.12.2024
“Evil never stops on its own. Someone has to stop it,” believes Pastor Gennadiy Mokhnenko of the Church of Good Changes. When the Russian army attacked Ukraine in 2014 the Protestant pastor did not think long about which side to take. Together with his sons, he began digging trenches around Mariupol to stop the advancing evil.
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