In Shreveport, Louisiana, across the street from House Speaker Mike Johnsons hometown church, an unusual billboard would pop up occasionally.

During weeks when Congress was out of session and Johnson was home, it showed a picture of a bombed-out church in the southeastern Ukraine city of Berdyansk, next to a caption: Speaker Johnson, For a time such as this. Esther 4:14.

While the debate raged in Washington over whether to approve another round of aid to Ukraine or pair it with an immigration overhaul, the billboard part of a campaign to remind Johnson of the price his fellow evangelical Christians were paying for American inaction stood as a mute reminder to Johnson, a Southern Baptist.