Ambassador For Life

My parents became believers in the Siberian coalmines through a Christian who gave them one page out of the book of St. John. Every one of my pastors were imprisoned, and those who continued to gather were beaten, ridiculed, imprisoned, and sometimes even killed. Many people in the free world have a hard time understanding how the secret police could come into your home and take relatives and members of your family away simply because of their faith in God. This happened to my family when my grandfather was taken out of our home and killed!

In 1985, after a concert in Odessa TX, our traveling concert band "Ruscha" visited a local church during a morning service. I was sitting in the back pew enjoying the message when the itinerate evangelist suddenly asked me to stand. As we had never before met each other, I was stunned when he looked at me and spoke, "Young man, you will go back to your country, you will meet a young woman, and you will impact the people of Russia once again.” Surprised, I lamented to my friends, "This isn't possible! Russia is a communist land and nobody can get in or out of that country!" Little did I know that God was at work on the other side of the world.
In 1989, with the unexpected breakaway of the USSR republics, I was asked to join a committee while I was in Moscow setting up President Alexander Lukashenko’s trip to the U.S., I met a young lady, Nina, a singer and an actress. After a brief engagement, we were married, and today we are sharing our life experience with the people of America.

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