Since 2014, Hodos Institute has been deeply engaged in Ukraine, accompanying leaders who are sustaining communities, churches, and organizations under the pressure of war.
We walk alongside those who are shaping Ukraine’s future while carrying the weight of loss, uncertainty, and responsibility.
Why Ukraine
Ukraine is experiencing one of the most profound social, moral, and spiritual disruptions of our time.
Beyond physical destruction, the war has deeply affected leaders at every level — pastors, educators, civic leaders, and organizational heads — who must make decisions daily that shape lives, institutions, and moral culture.
Leadership in Ukraine today is not theoretical. It is existential.
What Hodos Institute Does in Ukraine
- Leadership formation seminars
- Training for pastors, educators, and civic leaders
- Research on leadership, faith, and resilience during wartime
- Long-term mentoring and peer-learning relationships with Ukrainian organizational leaders
Our work focuses not on quick solutions but on forming leaders with depth, wisdom, and moral resilience.
How We Work
We do not import leadership models uncritically. Our work integrates:
- Spiritual formation — inner life, discernment, and character
- Ethical reflection — responsibility, power, and moral agency
- Leadership research — grounded in real wartime experience
We walk with leaders, not above them.
Who We Serve in Ukraine
- Pastors and church leaders
- Educators and seminary faculty
- Young professionals and emerging leaders
- Leaders sustaining organizations under wartime pressure
Many of the leaders we serve are carrying responsibility far beyond their years
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Leadership Formation in Practice
Kharkiv
Leadership training through teaching and dialogue with a nonprofit organization
Kyiv
Listening and discernment with senior medical leaders at the Kyiv Heart Institute
L'viv
Convening leaders for strategic reflections in wartime
Why Leadership Formation Matters for Ukraine’s Future
Ukraine’s future will not be shaped by military outcomes alone. It will be shaped by leaders who can carry responsibility with wisdom, moral clarity, and restraint in the midst of long-term uncertainty.
Churches, communities, and organizations depend on leaders who are not only competent, but inwardly formed — capable of discernment, ethical judgment, and faithfulness under pressure.
Hodos Institute invests in leadership formation because societies heal and rebuild through people.
When leaders are formed in character, vision, and maturity, they shape institutions that can endure trauma, resist corruption, and serve the common good over time
Leadership formation is slow work, but it is essential work for a wounded society seeking renewal.
Walk With US
This work is sustained by partners who believe that leadership formation is essential for healing, renewal, and long-term social health.
We invite individuals, churches, and organizations to walk with us as we accompany leaders in Ukraine during war and profound transition.
Supporting this work enables sustained presence with leaders who are carrying responsibility for communities and institutions under extraordinary pressure.
