Pavel Ozerkov

Pavel Ozerkov

Here’s my English translation:

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.

He has been living in the USA since December 1990.

In 1992, he was ordained as a pastor of the Russian Baptist church in Minneapolis.

At the same time, he did not abandon his work in his profession as a carpenter – he built and repaired houses, which he continues to do to this day. For the past 12 years, he has been flying as a missionary to Kamchatka, where he also builds and repairs church premises, while preaching and conducting children’s and youth camps.

He has also visited many countries of the world for missionary purposes: Lebanon, Peru, Costa Rica, Germany, Ukraine, Holland, Greece, France, Italy.

Since childhood, he loved books about American Indians; in America, his dream of preaching to them about Christ came true, visiting Indian reservations in the USA and Canada.

He wrote 10 books, of which four have already been published, the rest are in the process of publication.

Recently, he put the Song of Songs into verse, and this Biblical Book has resounded in the Russian language with new power.

“Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence, for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior…”