Our Team
Marc & Beth Ivanchak
Directors GraceLife
Orest Yatskulyak
Director/Co-founder GraceLife UA
Ezekiel Rufino
Grace Life Director Amazon Region
Dr. Tammy Warren
Founder of CAN
Valetiy Savka
Development specialist
James Rizzo
Director
Renee Hunt
CFO/Director
Founders GraceLife
Marc has been a pastoral counselor, missionary and teacher for 35 years. Marc along his wife Beth lived in Ukraine together for a year and are now working in Ukraine with humanitarian work and developing materials and teaching for trauma work. Their passion is to bring the light of the gospel of Jesus Christ to those that don’t know Him, and teach others the completeness of Christ’s work.
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CEO/Co-founder GraceLife UA
Yatskulyak Orest Orestovych, was born on February 27, 1990 in the town of Borynya, Turkiv district, Lviv region (Ukraine), in a family of civil servants. In 1996, he entered the 1st grade of secondary comprehensive school in Borinya village. He graduated from school in 2007. After graduating from school in July 2007, he entered the Ivan Franko Lviv National University at the Faculty of History. In 2012, he received a history teacher's diploma. During his vstudies at the university, in parallel with his basic studies, he also studied the history of religions in depth, and took a separate course at the Emanus school on the study of the Bible. He studied the history of the Christian church and the calendar cycle of celebrations of Christians of the Western rite. After graduation, he studied the Bible in various translations, in particular, and studied Judaism and the Torah. He worked for a long time in the field of education. I also periodically conducted trainings on soft skills — namely, communication and group work, financial literacy, communication culture, the ability to independently organize the educational process, and other topics thanks to which a person can successfully interact in a team when solving any work issues. successfully study and plan your time. He also participated in various social projects for the organization of assistance to children and adolescents from social groups. While developing the skills of project organization, he studied Project Management according to Lean principles - this is an online certification course of the Lean Institute Ukraine, a representative of the worldwide network of lean practitioners Lean Global Network. Speak English at level B1: Intermediate. He is married to Regina Yatskulyak, born in 1989, who works as a pediatric and adolescent gynecologist. We are raising our son Ernest, who is 9 years old, together. My family and I are for an active lifestyle, and we all do sports. We always try to be on the path of research and acquisition of new knowledge. We live with the mission of creating as many opportunities as possible to help those in need. We dream of more projects and social programs that will change the world for the better. Home address: city of Lviv, Ukraine.
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CEO/Co-founder GraceLife UA
Yatskulyak Orest Orestovych, was born on February 27, 1990 in the town of Borynya, Turkiv district, Lviv region (Ukraine), in a family of civil servants. In 1996, he entered the 1st grade of secondary comprehensive school in Borinya village. He graduated from school in 2007. After graduating from school in July 2007, he entered the Ivan Franko Lviv National University at the Faculty of History. In 2012, he received a history teacher's diploma. During his vstudies at the university, in parallel with his basic studies, he also studied the history of religions in depth, and took a separate course at the Emanus school on the study of the Bible. He studied the history of the Christian church and the calendar cycle of celebrations of Christians of the Western rite. After graduation, he studied the Bible in various translations, in particular, and studied Judaism and the Torah. He worked for a long time in the field of education. I also periodically conducted trainings on soft skills — namely, communication and group work, financial literacy, communication culture, the ability to independently organize the educational process, and other topics thanks to which a person can successfully interact in a team when solving any work issues. successfully study and plan your time. He also participated in various social projects for the organization of assistance to children and adolescents from social groups. While developing the skills of project organization, he studied Project Management according to Lean principles - this is an online certification course of the Lean Institute Ukraine, a representative of the worldwide network of lean practitioners Lean Global Network. Speak English at level B1: Intermediate. He is married to Regina Yatskulyak, born in 1989, who works as a pediatric and adolescent gynecologist. We are raising our son Ernest, who is 9 years old, together. My family and I are for an active lifestyle, and we all do sports. We always try to be on the path of research and acquisition of new knowledge. We live with the mission of creating as many opportunities as possible to help those in need. We dream of more projects and social programs that will change the world for the better. Home address: city of Lviv, Ukraine.
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CEO/Co-founder GraceLife UA
Yatskulyak Orest Orestovych, was born on February 27, 1990 in the town of Borynya, Turkiv district, Lviv region (Ukraine), in a family of civil servants. In 1996, he entered the 1st grade of secondary comprehensive school in Borinya village. He graduated from school in 2007. After graduating from school in July 2007, he entered the Ivan Franko Lviv National University at the Faculty of History. In 2012, he received a history teacher's diploma. During his vstudies at the university, in parallel with his basic studies, he also studied the history of religions in depth, and took a separate course at the Emanus school on the study of the Bible. He studied the history of the Christian church and the calendar cycle of celebrations of Christians of the Western rite. After graduation, he studied the Bible in various translations, in particular, and studied Judaism and the Torah. He worked for a long time in the field of education. I also periodically conducted trainings on soft skills — namely, communication and group work, financial literacy, communication culture, the ability to independently organize the educational process, and other topics thanks to which a person can successfully interact in a team when solving any work issues. successfully study and plan your time. He also participated in various social projects for the organization of assistance to children and adolescents from social groups. While developing the skills of project organization, he studied Project Management according to Lean principles - this is an online certification course of the Lean Institute Ukraine, a representative of the worldwide network of lean practitioners Lean Global Network. Speak English at level B1: Intermediate. He is married to Regina Yatskulyak, born in 1989, who works as a pediatric and adolescent gynecologist. We are raising our son Ernest, who is 9 years old, together. My family and I are for an active lifestyle, and we all do sports. We always try to be on the path of research and acquisition of new knowledge. We live with the mission of creating as many opportunities as possible to help those in need. We dream of more projects and social programs that will change the world for the better. Home address: city of Lviv, Ukraine.
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Grace Life Director Amazon Region
Ezekiel Rufino and his family have been laboring in the Amazon region for almost 10 years - predominantly working in the Matses, Matis and Ticuna tribes scattered in Brazil, Peru and Columbia - their home base is in Erene, Peru. And the have headed up Grace Life Amazon region for 6 years now.
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Yatskulyak Orest Orestovych, was born on February 27, 1990 in the town of Borynya, Turkiv district, Lviv region (Ukraine), in a family of civil servants. In 1996, he entered the 1st grade of secondary comprehensive school in Borinya village. He graduated from school in 2007. After graduating from school in July 2007, he entered the Ivan Franko Lviv National University at the Faculty of History. In 2012, he received a history teacher's diploma. During his vstudies at the university, in parallel with his basic studies, he also studied the history of religions in depth, and took a separate course at the Emanus school on the study of the Bible. He studied the history of the Christian church and the calendar cycle of celebrations of Christians of the Western rite. After graduation, he studied the Bible in various translations, in particular, and studied Judaism and the Torah. He worked for a long time in the field of education. I also periodically conducted trainings on soft skills — namely, communication and group work, financial literacy, communication culture, the ability to independently organize the educational process, and other topics thanks to which a person can successfully interact in a team when solving any work issues. successfully study and plan your time. He also participated in various social projects for the organization of assistance to children and adolescents from social groups. While developing the skills of project organization, he studied Project Management according to Lean principles - this is an online certification course of the Lean Institute Ukraine, a representative of the worldwide network of lean practitioners Lean Global Network. Speak English at level B1: Intermediate. He is married to Regina Yatskulyak, born in 1989, who works as a pediatric and adolescent gynecologist. We are raising our son Ernest, who is 9 years old, together. My family and I are for an active lifestyle, and we all do sports. We always try to be on the path of research and acquisition of new knowledge. We live with the mission of creating as many opportunities as possible to help those in need. We dream of more projects and social programs that will change the world for the better. Home address: city of Lviv, Ukraine.
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CFO/Director
Ezekiel Rufino and his family have been laboring in the Amazon region for almost 10 years - predominantly working in the Matses, Matis and Ticuna tribes scattered in Brazil, Peru and Columbia - their home base is in Erene, Peru. And the have headed up Grace Life Amazon region for 6 years now.
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