Rich Correll 

The Evangelical Christian-Baptist church and membership statistics for Ukraine look correct. We started in 1990 with 988 congregations and more than doubled in the next ten years. However, the affiliate numbers (2001—380,000; 2010—452,000) look suspect, and I wonder how Operation World figured those. My overall impression is that church planting in Ukraine has slowed to a crawl in the last six years, with officials manipulating statistics.

 Rich Correll, Church Planters’ Training Institute, Grand Rapids, Michigan