Sergey Rakhuba

Sergey Rakhuba has served as the President of Mission Eurasia since 2010. Prior to this, he served as the Vice President of Mission Eurasia (then Russian Ministries), overseeing all of our ministries in the countries of the former Soviet Union—a region now known as Eurasia.

Sergey is originally from Ukraine, but later moved to Moscow, Russia where he lived for many years. He is a gifted national leader who has a great vision for his homeland and the entire Eurasian region. Reverend Peter Deyneka, Jr., the founder of Mission Eurasia, discovered this young leader in the church in Russia and was quickly impressed by his pastoral and evangelistic abilities.

After the Iron Curtain fell in 1989, Sergey helped to plant a church near Moscow. Since then, he has had a great desire to help train other nationals to expand evangelism and church growth throughout Eurasia. This burden for training bore much fruit when Sergey helped to establish 52 Evangelism and Church-Planting Centers in key regions of Eurasia. These centers provided training in evangelism and church-planting for Christian leaders, and also served as networks for the distribution of Christian training materials and other resources for evangelism and church growth. National evangelists and church-planters have started over 1,000 new churches with the training and resources they have received through these centers.

Today, as Mission Eurasia’s President, Sergey casts the strategic vision for the organization and plays a leading role in developing and implementing effective ministry models designed to transform the spiritual landscape of Eurasia.

As an expert in ministry training initiatives, Sergey focuses on the need to train, equip, and mobilize the Next Generation of Christian leaders through Mission Eurasia’s School Without Walls (SWW), Next Generation Professional Leaders Initiative (NGPLI), and other strategic training programs.

With his in-depth, cross-cultural awareness and expertise, Sergey is committed to challenging churches, individuals, and Christian organizations across the globe to become partners with local Christians in Eurasia: “I believe that Christians in America can greatly benefit from becoming involved with the church in Eurasia. And after so many years of working in secret and in isolation, national churches in Eurasia need to develop partnerships with churches in other parts of the world.”

Sergey attended Moody Bible Institute, studying International Ministries and Evangelism. Sergey and his wife, Tanya, live near Franklin, Tennessee. They have three children and four grandchildren.