Andreas Patts

Andreas Patts

He was 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 Evangelical Christian Baptist (ECB) church in Pavlodar. In 1984, he was baptized in the same church and in the same year was drafted into the Soviet army. In 1984-86, due to his refusal to take the military oath, he served in a construction battalion in the city of Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk region. After serving in the army, he became the leader of church youth and a preacher in the ECB church in Pavlodar. On July 12, 1989, he emigrated to Germany. In 1995, he established the international publishing house “Titel” (Titel-Verlag) in the city of Idar-Oberstein (Germany), and at the same time started a new evangelical church in the city of Birkenfeld. He received his education at the Moscow State University of Printing Arts, specializing in “Publishing and Editing.” From 1996 to 2016, he was the official representative of the “Top Secret” holding in Western European countries. In 1998, he founded a monthly publication – “International Christian Newspaper” (which is printed in four countries around the world). He is the editor-in-chief of the “International Christian Newspaper.” He is married, has four children and six grandchildren. He is a pastor of the Evangelical Christian Baptist church (ordained on October 8, 2000), a Christian journalist, an active blogger, maintains a page in “LiveJournal” and a channel on YouTube.