About the book
Authors
Liubov Blednykh (Volodenko)
She was born in 1959 in Russia, in its beautiful corner North Ossetia. Lyuba's entire life is connected with Vladikavkaz the city where she finished school, received a higher economic education, got married, and gave birth to three children. She has been writing poetry since the age of 12; five of her books have been published, two of which were published in Germany. "There are no forbidden topics for me," Lyubov says about her creative work, "although I more often write about the meaning of life, faith, and love."
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Olga Veligan
Olga Veligan graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Lviv National University named after I. Franko. She is the author of poetry collections "A Moment Like Eternity," "Golgotha," "Communion," "Insight," and the book "Heaven," which includes poems from different years in Russian and Ukrainian languages. These are reflections on the meaning of life, on the greatness and mercy of our Lord, on eternity in Heaven, which the Savior gives to all who have loved Him. Until 2000, together with her daughter Irina, she hosted the TV program "In the Beginning Was the Word," and was a senior editor of Ternopil State Television.
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Nadezhda Harkusha
Nadezhda Garkusha is originally from Ukraine. She has a husband, two daughters, and already seven grandchildren. She has been living in the USA since 1996. And she has been writing poetry since her youth. Her works were published in city newspapers "Abkhazia," "Vesti Sochi." In America, her poems and stories have appeared in various publications: "Flute," "Poems.Ru," "Christian Newspaper," "Our Days," "Diaspora," "Maria," "God's Vineyard," "View," and others.
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Liubov Dancheva
Lyubov Dancheva is the daughter of Christian poet and composer Viktor Mifodievich Panfilov. He is already in eternity, but remains for his daughter an example of living faith and great work in God's name. Vera has been writing poetry since childhood and believes that poetry is a gift from God. "I didn't have the opportunity to study at a higher educational institution," says the author, "but the Lord was my Teacher, and I always wrote poems with prayer.
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Halyna Dzhezhula
She was born on April 1, 1975, in Crimea. Mother of three children. Since 2008, she has been living in California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Fashion designer and tailor. She sews wedding and evening dresses, creates collections, and lives in her own store. She has been writing poetry since early childhood. "Since 2010, all my creative work has become Christ-centered. Like my entire life it is dedicated to the Lord," says Galina. "The deeper I experience God, the more sincere and precise my poetry becomes I believe! Therefore, I am zealous precisely for this Closeness. I am zealous for the flow of Light and Love."
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Vyktor Yotko
He was born in Eastern Ukraine, in Dnepropetrovsk (now Dnipro). Married. Four children, eight grandchildren. He moved to the United States of America with his wife Larisa and two daughters, Alena and Yulia, for permanent residence in 2017. And quite recently, in 2021, his sons Svyatoslav and Mikhail joined him with their families.
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Svetlana Yotko
Svetlana Iotko (Zavgorodnyaya) was born on November 24, 1983, in the city of Dnipro, Ukraine. The family was small – father, mother, and two children, Svetlana and her younger sister Irina. The parents were ordinary engineers, lived modestly, but tried to instill in their children all the most necessary things: love for knowledge and sports, respect for people, nature, and work. Svetlana did well in school, participated in various handicraft and sports clubs, took part in choreographic and theatrical groups, as well as the school KVN team. She graduated from school with honors and a gold medal.
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Yryna Karkhut
Irina Karkhut turned to the Lord at the age of nineteen. She graduated from the Faculty of Journalism at Lviv National University named after I. Franko. She worked as a journalist at Ternopil State Television for many years. In 2002, she immigrated to the USA with her family (Sacramento, California). Member of Grace Avenue Bible Church in Sacramento. Author of Christian television programs "In the Beginning Was the Word," "House Built by Wisdom," numerous publications, Christian radio and television broadcasts. Irina loves poetry and writes poems for God's glory. Member of the editorial board and permanent host of the "Mission Today" column in the magazine "God's Vineyard" of the Pacific Association of Evangelical Christians-Baptists. Her works are printed in the almanacs "New Times" and "Demands of the Time." Together with her husband Mikhail, they raised two children.
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Mykhayl Kozubovskyi
He lives in the city of Kyiv, Ukraine. He began writing poetry in his youth. He received his first lessons in poetic craftsmanship at the literary studio of the Writers' Union of Ukraine, and it was then that his first publications appeared. Then there was study at the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University at the Faculty of Journalism. He was a member of the working poetic group at the music department of the All-Union Council of Evangelical Christians-Baptists, whose task was to work on texts for musical works, as well as prepare for publication the first poetry collection "Christian Lyre," which also included the author's poems. He was published in the journal "Fraternal Herald." In 1989, he stood at the origins of the newspaper of the Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists of Ukraine "Christian Life," which he edited for seven years. After the transformation of the newspaper into the magazine "Evangelical Field," he was the editor of the magazine until 2012. Then he worked on the series of books "Preach the Word." During a long creative period, he was the editor of many Christian publications. Many of the author's poems have been set to music.
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Vladymyr Mysyn
He was born in a close-knit Russian-Ukrainian family, in which nine children grew up. Vladimir was two years old when his parents moved from Moscow to Tashkent. He graduated from the Tashkent Music School and the Moscow Institute of Sacred Music. He received a Bachelor's degree in Church Music. For more than thirty years, he was a church choir conductor, wrote more than two hundred songs, and released seven music albums. He graduated from the "Logos" Bible Institute in California. He wrote four books: "Conversation with the Future," "Good and Evil," "Heavenly Windows," "Kucheryaben'kaya." He has many publications in Russian-language newspapers in America. In 1989, he emigrated to America with his family. He currently works as the Executive Director of the "Word to Russia" Mission (Sacramento, California). He is married. He has four sons, a daughter, and (so far) thirteen grandchildren.
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Andrey Neyfeld
Andrey Neyfeld is from Karaganda. He was born in 1960. He currently lives in the state of Minnesota. 'A love for poetry was noticed in me even in childhood,' says the author. 'My mother was a very creative person. She wrote poems, songs, short stories. She was my first teacher of the word. I have been writing since the age of 14.'
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Pavel Ozerkov
Poet Pavel Ozerkov was born on November 24, 1961, in the state farm "Komsomolsky" in the Pavlodar region of Kazakhstan. His grandmother and mother were fearless street preachers of Christ. His grandmother received 10 years in camps for this under Stalin, and his mother lost jobs and housing while having small children. Pavel repented and was baptized after the army in 1983 in the Alma-Ata church. He immediately began to preach the Word of God as a missionary and evangelist. He began writing poetry at the age of 14, knowing many poems by heart from the school curriculum since childhood, memorizing them when older brothers and sisters learned them for school, and he listened, which later proved useful to him when studying at school.
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Vera Savchenko
Vera Savchenko (maiden name Zinkovskaya) was born on January 10, 1956, in the village of Starye Kodaki. She was the third child in a family of five children. During her school years, Vera loved to read Russian classics, and she was especially interested in poetry. From childhood, she attended Christian services and recited memorized poems. These were times of atheism, and there was a catastrophic shortage of Christian literature. Children and young people bought thick notebooks and manually copied poems from each other. Vera understood – it was necessary to fill the need with her own efforts.
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Vera Sukhumskaia
She was born in Belarus, in the Gomel region. Due to persecution from the authorities, her large family moved to Abkhazia in 1964, where there was relative religious freedom at that time. Vera's parents were extraordinarily sacrificial and made enormous efforts to ensure that 9 children grew up in normal conditions... After finishing school and vocational school, she entered a technological college in the city of Tbilisi, then worked as a designer at a garment factory in the city of Sukhumi, later at the House of Consumer Services as a fashion designer, and at the Palace of Culture as a teacher of cutting and sewing classes and various types of handicrafts.
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Vladymyr Ulchenkov
Vladimir Ulchenkov came to the Lord from the world in the early 90s, repenting in the central Moscow ECB (Evangelical Christian Baptist) church. He was baptized by immersion according to his faith in the central Kharkiv church "Transfiguration" in 1997. He studied at the DCE (bachelor's degree) and at the MTS (Moscow Theological Seminary) for a master's degree.
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Nadezhda Khrapova
She was born on February 11, 1957, in the city of Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Her father, Nikolai Petrovich Khrapov, was a Church minister, a long-term prisoner for the Word of God, author of the trilogy "The Happiness of a Lost Life," many poems and epic poems. In the Khrapov family, each day began with prayer and singing. In this house, they sang all the time. From childhood, Nadezhda loved the Church and God's people.
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Vladymyr Sharykov
In the Christian world, many write poems, and this is wonderful, as believers try in this way to express their love for the Lord, but among them there are not many genuine poets. And I am glad, dear readers, to introduce you to Vladimir Sharikov. The Lord revealed this name to me about 15 years ago at a seminar in Israel, which Vladimir Stepanovich conducted together with other brothers from the USA. I really liked his presentation, and I gave the brother a CD with my songs.
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Leonyd Shatokhyn
He was born in 1952 in Donetsk, Ukraine. Since 2017, he has been living in Sacramento, the capital of California. He began writing poetry in his youth, reflecting in them his spiritual searches, joys, and experiences. Some of them became songs: "I Am Not Worthy of Your Love," "Youthful Strength," and others. Later, new songs were mainly created in collaboration with the musical group "Ark" from Donetsk. He often wrote poems dedicated to his friends on the occasion of various significant events: baptism, marriage, send-offs to the army... "I owe a lot to the friends of my Christian youth," says Leonid.
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Elena Shustriakova
In the Christian world, and especially in her native city of St. Petersburg, Elena is well known as the author of many heartfelt poems published in the collections "Do Not Extinguish the Candle Within Yourself," "It's Me, Not Someone Else," "A Soul Without God is an Orphan." She has been the editor-in-chief of the interdenominational Christian magazine "From Heart to Heart" since 2011 and is the author of many materials in this publication.
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Aleksandr Polishchuk
Alexander Polischuk is originally from Ukraine. Even as a schoolboy, he developed a love for literature, reading a lot and writing poetry, which he never showed to anyone, just for himself. Living in a country where everyone said there was no God, he often pondered the universe and always searched for Him. In his youth, he had a personal encounter with the Almighty when he first crossed the threshold of a church. Feelings of joy and answers to many philosophical questions overwhelmed him, and unexpectedly for the poet, line after line poured out onto paper.
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