About the book
About the authors
Authors
Pjotr Abrashkyn
Well-known Christian figure and writer Peter Abrashkin in different years was a co-founder of the newspaper "Protestant" and actively participated in its publication and further development, acting as the author of numerous publications. Later, after the so-called perestroika, when the state "allowed" believers to show their civic activity, he became the general director of the Russian-German fund "Christian Mercy," was at one time a member of the Permanent Chamber of the Political Advisory Council under the President of the Russian Federation, an assistant to State Duma deputy Alexander Men, chairman of the all-Russian union "Council of Christian Organizations."
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Aleksandr Atlas
Alexander Atlas, the author of the book "My Path to God," excerpts from which are offered for your attention, tells the true, personal story of his life before he became a believer in the Lord Jesus and after. For the past 33 years, he has been living with his wife in Israel and experiencing together with his people everything that happens in Israel itself and around it. "I am deeply convinced," says Alexander, "that after reading this book, each of you will relate differently to our country and our people! And with greater understanding will read those verses in the Bible in which the Lord God speaks about His chosen people and about the attitude of other peoples toward them. May the Lord bless you and fill you with His special presence while reading this book!"
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Hryhoryi Berh
He was born on July 5, 1958, in Karaganda. His parents were believers. They tried, as much as they could, to instill in their children faith in God. During his military service, visiting the Murmansk church for the first time, Grigory received a clear revelation that he should stay in Murmansk. This was both strange and frightening, and did not enter into his plans at all. At that time, he was not even a church member yet... But the ways of the Lord are inscrutable, and he submitted to God's will. For many years, he was a presbyter of the Murmansk ECB church, and now he serves as a bishop.
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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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Vyktor Verkhovod
Victor Verkhovod was born in 1961 in the city of Frunze, now Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. In 1980, he graduated from an art school in Uzbekistan, in the city of Tashkent, with a specialization as a sculptor-teacher. He worked in the Art Foundation as a workshop manager and at the Aesthetic Center as a sculpture studio instructor. In 1997, he emigrated to the USA and lives in Sacramento, where he continues to work on sculptural and painting projects for public buildings and parks, as well as as a sculptor at the ceramic company Gladding McBean. He actively tries his hand at literature. Since 1997, his works have been published in Russian and American editions. Since 2006, he has been a member of the literary association LOTOS. He is currently preparing a collection of poems and stories for publication.
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Elena Vykulyna
Vikulina Elena Dmitrievna was born in the city of Armavir, Krasnodar region, in 1971. She is married and has raised three biological and 8 adopted children. She began writing poetry in 1986, and after turning to God, the main theme of her creative work became the relationship between humans and the Creator. She has published two collections of poems "Search for Truth" and "Wounded Bird." Since 2020, she began painting pictures, in which spiritual themes are also deeply reflected, as in her poetry.
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Andrei Dziuba
Missionary, one of the pastors of the Slavic church "Cornerstone." He came with his family to the USA as a refugee at the end of May 2022. When the war began in Ukraine, the family decided to leave Russia. Their anti-war position was very serious and clear. Lives in Sacramento, California.
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Aleksei Dunaev
Alexei was born in 1978 in the Kemerovo region (Western Siberia). From birth – first disability group (craniocerebral trauma). From an early age, he began to think about the meaning of life. He believed in Christ at 14, and at 17 – received water baptism. Since that time, he began to write poetry. Author of collections: "Flight of the Soul" (2005), "Music of the Heart" (2009), "Heartbeat of a Dream" (2014), "In the Embrace of Life" (2023). He has two higher educations (secular and spiritual): a philologist of the Russian language and a Bachelor of Theology.
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Aleksandr Kalynskyi
Alexander Kalinsky was born in a non-Christian military family and grew up in Germany. He came to faith in 1994. Two years later, he entered Donetsk Christian University and started a new church "Dzherelo zhyttya," in Russian "Source of Life," in the city of Zdolbunov, where he serves as a pastor to this day. In 1998, he entered the Ukrainian Theological Seminary. A year later, he was ordained for pastoral ministry. In 2007, he graduated from the School of Biblical Preaching, later the International Institute of Soul Care "Coram Deo." Married. Father of six children and grandfather of ten grandchildren.
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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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Nykolai and Vera Kytsen
Nikolai was born in Western Ukraine in the village of Shcherbintsy, Novoselitsky district, Chernivtsi region, Vera in the city of Ordzhonikidze, North Ossetian ASSR (North Caucasus). They got married in Chernivtsi. In 1993, the family moved from Ukraine to the USA to Fresno, California. Nikolai departed into eternity on October 28, 2021.
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Eduard Kurat
Pastor of the "Philadelphia" church in Ternopil, Ukraine. In 1999, he moved with his family from Donbass to Ternopil for missionary work. Poet-bard, author of several collections. Married. Together with his wife Elena, they raised three children.
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Serhei Kushnar
Sergey was born in 1961 in the city of Novorossiysk (Russia), but considers Kazakhstan his homeland, where he moved with his parents, where he grew up, studied, was baptized, married, and where his children were born. Growing up in a Christian family, he attended the ECB (Evangelical Christian Baptist) church since childhood. "For me, this is an unforgettable, happy time," Sergey recalls. His family moved to America in December 2000. Currently, Sergey works as a truck driver and devotes all his free time to reflections on life and faith, on relationships with the Lord.
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Valeryi Marukhyn
He was born and raised in Russia. He currently lives in California, in the city of Sacramento. He began writing poems on spiritual themes after coming to faith in 1981.
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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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Liubov Pavliuk
Lyuba Pavlyuk was born in Ukraine, in a family of believing parents. She spent her childhood years in a small village, where she could run freely and with pleasure through silky meadows and cool forest. Her love for creativity was born in the distant childhood. She remembers how, lying in tall grass, she looked at the blue sky with countless feathery clouds and dreamed, composing short poetic phrases and stories for school. Her first teacher said that she wrote good compositions. Then, in the distant childhood, at a very young age, Jesus revealed Himself to her and said: "I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you!" Since then, this has been her greatest happiness!
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Leonyd Pysarchuk
After being exiled for religious beliefs, Leonid's parents, on the advice of their friends, decided to move from the Siberian wilderness to the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, which was famous for its abundance of sunshine and variety of vegetables and fruits, which was important for a large family. It was there, in the Kyrgyz village of Sokuluk, that Leonid Leonidovich was born on October 11, 1966, the ninth of fourteen children. The love of his parents, who were deeply religious people, was enough for everyone. Conversations about God, reading the Bible, and church services at home were common for the family.
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Yulyia Sanko
Yulia Sanko is the author of the book "The Story of One Soul," translated into 7 languages. The same age as this book is the charitable Foundation for helping children with cancer in Ukraine "Timosh's Smile," which Yulia founded in memory of her son Timosh, who went to heaven at the age of 7; he had blood cancer. She is also a speaker and coach, developer of original Bible study courses, founder of the "Mothers of Angels" ministry for women who have lost children, and organizer of weekly meetings to support mothers whose children suffer from cancer.
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Natalia Smolykova
More than 20 years ago, Natalia Smolikova's family moved to the USA from Russia. The city of Sacramento differs, of course, in lifestyle from Pyatigorsk, where the family used to live. But the proximity of mountains and the heat of the steppes in the vicinity of the Caucasian Mineral Waters is somewhat akin to the valleys of California. And the main common thing is the opportunity to preach the Word of God as diligently in California as in the native land, where Natasha with friends took an active part in the work of the International Gideon Mission.
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Vladymyr Shyshko
Vladimir Alexandrovich Shishko was born on January 25, 1937. He was the third child in the large family of Alexander and Elena Shishko, who lived in the village of Tolkachevichi, which is about 65 kilometers from Minsk. It was a difficult and godless time... In the seventies, persecutions against believers intensified. But at the end of the 80s, the "iron curtain" was lifted, and a time of changes came. Freedom poured into the country, and believing Christians moved abroad. In the summer of 1989, the Shishko family received an envelope with a gold seal from America.
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