S03E06 | Sam Slobodian
November 15, 2022
Immigrants and Ukraine are frequent news topics these days. This episode combines both. Sam Slobodian, director of Baptist International Evangelistic Ministries, was the son of one of the four million refugees who fled from Ukraine to Argentina following WWII. In an amusing twist, a missionary from Chicago serving in Argentina led his father to the Lord, and later his father became a missionary to Russian-speaking Ukrainians in Chicago. Sam and host Dr. Matt Davis initially review Sam’s early life and the development of BIEM, which partners with national church planters in Eastern Europe and Western and Central Asia. Sam explains church ministry in the Soviet Union during the Cold War and the differences in western perceptions of the persecution and underground church. Then the conversation shifts to the current war in Ukraine—the needs it creates, the opportunities it affords for ministry, and the blessings it has triggered.
