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.