Rodion and Elena joined Wycliffe Canada in 2023, transferring from another Wycliffe organization. Elena served in West Africa from 2008 to 2012 as a linguist and currently serves as a Staff Care Advisor with Wycliffe Canada. Rodion joined Wycliffe shortly after their marriage in 2012, working with Indigenous peoples in Northern and South Eurasia.

In 2019, seeing the vast need in the region, Rodion and Elena moved to Eurasia with their two children, Oleg and Mira, to help manage local projects. War in the region forced them to relocate in 2023, bringing them back to Canada, where they welcomed their third child, Emma.

Now based in British Columbia, they oversee Bible translation projects remotely and travel back to Eurasia each year to support the work on the ground.