John&Tanya Lynch

Ukraine

John and Tanya were children of a revival that took place in the 90’s in Ukraine where they first met when they were thirteen years old. They served in Ukraine as youth and worship pastors for 10 years, before they came to Redding and completed three years of BSSM. Through some bizarre confirmations to prophetic words they received, in 2014 they knew it was time to return to Ukraine and be part of the fulfillment of a long-time prophecy about Ukraine being “a bread basket to the nations.” 

Whatever the circumstances, John and Tanya are passionate about sharing Jesus’s love with everyone they come in contact with. 

For a number of years John served as the local senior pastor of Father’s House church in Kharkiv, Ukraine.  Since the war started he is now overseeing the Kharkiv Father's House church and also a newly planted Fathers House church in Chernivtsi. 

John carries a passion for raising up new worship leaders and musicians who are birthing new songs that will reverberate throughout Ukraine and other nations of the former Soviet Union.  John also does a lot of activating and training people in prophetic ministry, healing, and supernatural ministry. 

Together, with an ever-growing team of young revivalists, they currently lead a vibrant ministry to the poor called Love in Action.  This ministry currently operates in three cities.  In connection with the Love in Action ministry, they host an extravagant Feast of Love event for the poor every Christmas, which they have now done in multiple cities on an annual basis.  God has called them to equip people for ministry that is accompanied by signs and wonders, and to train up leaders to be sent out as missionaries to the cities and towns of Ukraine and beyond.

Sinc the start of the war, the Lynch family transitioned from Kharkiv to a more safe city in western currently called Ivano-Frankivsk where they have been serving in The Church of the Living God.  At this church John serves as an elder and co-pastor, and Tanya also has helped to launch multiple new ministries in the church. Since the war started, the Lord has been expanding their reach and influence, and expanding the vision God has placed int their hearts for UKraine and beyond. 

One of the ways they train and equip people is through the many retreats they organize in the Carpathian mountains.  People from all around Ukraine, leaders, pastors,  and youth attend these retreats to get away, and be refreshed, and to be equipped and ignited for ministry. These retreats serve as a powerful tool to help refresh those who have been laboring tirelessly since the war started.   They also have launched the Missions Academy of Supernatural Ministry, where many powerful speakers, and missionaries taught and trained people for missions and ministry in the supernatural. 



One of the vital ministries that are happening is the ministry on the frontlines, where their  team delivers food, water, and freshly baked bread most days of the week to towns and villages close to the frontlines where there is critical need. They preach the gospel, and also help evacuate people from locations where it has become too dangerous to stay.  They take regular trips to Kharkiv, Druzhkivka (frontlines team), and Chernivtsi to support the work being done, and to encourage the leaders.