Alexander Kalinsky

God exercises His governance through earthly authority. It is this authority that is appointed to establish God's order on earth, and we submit to it. On the condition that it does not transgress the boundaries of God's will.

Alexander Kalinsky was born into 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 began a new church called "Dzherelo zhyttya" (in Russian, "Source of Life") in the city of Zdolbuniv, where he serves as pastor to this day. In 1998 he entered the Ukrainian Theological Seminary. A year later he was ordained to pastoral ministry. In 2007 he completed the School of Biblical Preaching, and later the International Institute of Pastoral Care "Coram Deo." He is married. Father of six children and grandfather of ten grandchildren.