This photo shows Pasha Gereshenko (standing), who with his wife Tanya and three sons were some of the earliest Ukrainians to be sent as full-time missionaries.  This couple,

long-time friends of ours, have a passion for the Turkish people, and went first to Turkey in 2007.  When visas problems arose, they did not give up but transferred instead to a Turkish-populated area of Russia.  They are winning people to Christ and building relationships for an eventual church plant there.