Our Journey Begins

In February of 2008, Anya and I left our home in Slavyansk in Eastern Ukraine and moved to Bila Tserkva over 500 miles away where God has called us as native missionaries. We are creating this blog so that we can open up our lives to you and share about how God is using us in Bila Tserkva. God has given us a heart for reaching school aged and university students. Our dream is to one day see a thriving and active student church.

Before being led to become native missionaries in Bila Tserkva, I worked as a full time assistant in our home church in Slavyansk, Church of God Ukraine for six years. While working in that position I began to feel strongly that God was calling me to full time missions, but didn't know where exactly. About a year before we moved, I had the opportunity to work with an American team in Bila Tserkva as a translator. That is when God confirmed that He wanted us to work in missions and showed me exactly where He wanted us.

It has been nine months since we packed up our home and our little boy Nikita (who had just turned one year old at the time) and said good bye to all of our family and friends. God has been faithful in providing for our needs in good times and in bad. We have been witness to God's miraculous leading in ministry and confirmations of our calling here. We are currently involved in two English Clubs reaching out to school age and university students, youth discipleship through private English lessons, sharing God's Word in local churches, youth conferences, street evangelism, and we are praying about future English Camps with other missionaries.