Caleb and Christina Suko
Odessa, Ukraine (ABWE)
Caleb and Christina serve in Odessa, Ukraine with a team of missionaries. Their ministry is focused on growing healthy Christ centered local churches. This is accomplished through training young believers at the Church Ministries Institute, where Caleb serves as the vice president. In addition to this they are involved in personal discipleship, and work closely alongside Ukrainian pastors to help strengthen and multiply the church in Ukraine and beyond.
A native of Washington State, Caleb grew up in Gig Harbor where his father started Discovery Baptist Church in 1981. Christina was born and raised in the former Soviet Union and came to the U.S. in 1996 to study at Shasta Bible College in Redding, California. Her entire family still resides in Ukraine where they are involved in a variety of ministries at Gospel House Church in Cherkassy.
Caleb and Christina met at Shasta Bible College in 1996. As they got to know each other, they realized that the Lord had already directed both of them towards missions. They are sent by Discovery Baptist where Caleb served as a pastoral intern from 1999-2005. Together, they ministered as commander and secretary of Discovery’s AWANA club. Caleb graduated from Northwest Baptist Seminary with a Master of Divinity in 2005. Christina graduated from Shasta Bible College in 1999. The Sukos have five children.