Andreas Patz

...The homeland is in the birch trees, in our open spaces, Kazakh steppes, Siberian forests, among the people. How is all this not to love?

Born on August 17, 1966 in the city of Pavlodar (Kazakhstan; then USSR). At the age of 13, he began singing in the choir of the ECB church in Pavlodar. In 1984, he was baptized in the same church and in the same year he was drafted into the Soviet army. In 1984-86, due to refusal of the military oath, he served in a construction battalion in the city of Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk region. After serving in the army, he became a leader of church youth and a preacher in the ECB church in Pavlodar. On July 12, 1989 he emigrated to Germany. In 1995, he founded the international publishing house "Titel" (Titel-Verlag) in the city of Idar-Oberstein (Germany), at the same time he started a new evangelical church in the city of Birkenfeld. He received his education at the Moscow State Printing University with a degree in Publishing and Editing. From 1996 to 2016 - official representative of the "Top Secret" holding in Western European countries. In 1998, he founded the monthly publication “International Christian Newspaper” (which is published in four countries around the world). Editor-in-Chief of the International Christian Newspaper. Married, has four children and six grandchildren. Pastor of the Evangelical Christian Baptist Church (ordained on October 8, 2000), Christian journalist, active blogger, maintains a page on LiveJournal and a YouTube channel.