The establishment of the church was aided by Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network operating in the former Soviet Union.

[6] The church budget was around $1 million a year, all from donations, but Hillsong made the Kasevichs pay up to $13,000 for first-class air tickets to fly speakers to a conference in Kyiv.

The Kasevichs wanted to emigrate to the United States, and there is evidence that Hillsong said that they could make things difficult for the couple with the American authorities, although Houston later denied this.

[5] After their departure, the Kasevichs were banned from church events and therefore from the congregation (their "family"), and their emails and online connection to the Hillsong database were cut.

[11] From summer 2007 Hillsong Moscow held services in the Stas Namin Theatre, in the city centre near Gorky Park.

In July 2014, at Hillsong's major conference in Sydney, Kyiv lead pastor Yuriy Ravnushkin spoke about the difficulties of keeping the church going during those times.

[4] The church has a history of helping orphanages in Kyiv and nearby, supporting sick people in hospitals treating cancer, reaching out to homeless children and inmates in correctional centres.

[16] In 2015 Tanya Ravnushkin reported that they had "started to do a whole lot more outside our doors", and refugee children had been accepted into the church and into the homes of members.

[3] In April 2022, speaking from their new home in the U.S., former pastors Zhenya and Vera Kasevich criticised the way that Hillsong Australia's general manager George Aghajanian had forced them to hand over the church and assets to the global organisation in 2014, and accused Hillsong of wanting to add it to their property portfolio.