Rich Correll is a former steel marketing executive turned church planting missionary to Ukraine. Since 1991, Rich has traveled to Ukraine over 145 times and has helped plant 2071 churches resulting in over 14,000 baptisms and the establishment of 91 drug rehab homes. When he launched Church Planters' Training International (CPTI) in 1992 as founder and president, Rich had no prior theological or church planting experience, nor did he know any of the languages spoken by the people of Ukraine. "My joke is we did everything wrong but it worked out pretty good," said Correll.

However, Rich does possess the gift of exhortation and maintains a heartbeat for an apostolic vision. In Ukraine, Rich looked for people to work with “who have dirty hands and dirty feet." He defines "dirty hands and feet" as people who are preaching the Gospel in the marketplace and ministering to the needs of people. This produced the amazing results by God’s grace.

In this podcast Rich responds to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and explains how and why the Christians there are defending their land like they have had to do many times in the past. He encourages us to be praying for our brothers and sisters there and how we can be of help to them financially. He also shares how churches in any nation can become lazy and ineffective when things get too easy. This is a warning to the American Church to wake up and BE the church rather than just gather weekly in our comfortable church buildings.