Protsko Sergiy
I was born in Kyiv, but mostly lived my life in Vishgorod. I am 28 years old. From my early childhood I didn’t see or didn’t feel any love. My mother and older brother were alcoholics, about my father I don’t remember. Soon I found myself on the streets where I found friends and for the first time tried alcohol. As I was growing up, another problem started letting know about itself. It was the after-effect of my parents’ heavy drinking. Spine deformation was found in me and a hunk started forming. To me it was a huge internal trauma. I started sinking my grief in vodka. Soon, I was in deep dipsomania. Understanding that I was thrown out to the scrap-heap of life, made me drink more and more. Thoughts about suicide came more often, but God had mercy to me even when I rejected Him with sedulity. The insistent knocking at my door made me open and let Jesus into my heart. He granted me complete freedom. My life changed pivotally; my eyes and ears opened. I understood how wonderful and great my Father is. I want to devote my whole life to Him. Right now I’m getting ready to accede in covenant with God and promise to serve Him good conscience. What I received in God will never by exchanged for anything.

Nazarenko Demyan
I was raised in a family without a father, but everybody tried to give me a good upbringing. I attended different sport clubs, I was physically fit, graduated high school and a technical school. But spiritual satisfaction and happiness of the life I lived were absent. Trying to seek these things I started participating in theft, robberies, lechery, drinking alcohol, using drugs and I’ve been doing these things from 15 to 22 years of age. When I was 19 years old I committed a big crime with my friends and I was sentenced to 5 years of jail time. For all that I didn’t feel any regret, neither did I have any desire to change myself, but a search for happiness and satisfaction still continued. During my jail time I did not change and was not planning to change my sinful life. There I met Christian people that believed in Jesus Christ. They told me about the love of God, but at the beginning I didn’t want to accept anything, because I thought that I lived my life the right way. Though observing the life of Christians I started thinking that I am looking for friends like them and a life they have, but my pride didn’t let me step ahead and do something. I had a desire to read New Testament after I’ve served 3,6 years in jail, and that’s when everything started to change. Word of God told me who I am, what’s the end of my sinful life, and that I can have a salvation through Jesus Christ. I started attending a church in this jail and in 2002 I gave my life to Jesus Christ. God gave me freedom, new hope, and a new family. Now I am serving my savior Jesus Christ.

Necheporuk Yuriy
I was born in Kyiv, in the year of 1976, in a normal family. My family was religious, but God wasn’t a part of it. My parents tried to extrude happiness from money, but they were not successful. Yet, my brother and I were growing up. I had an understanding that my life and my well being all depended on money. After I graduated school and secondary school, I ended up on the street and started communicating with people similar to me. I was involved in robberies, theft, and soon enough I was in jail. I understood that I needed to stop, but I couldn’t. But hallelujah, Jesus made it possible. His love accomplished this. How did this happen? For the time I turned out in jail, I got sick of my life in which didn’t have any meaning. I thought that in jail I will learn how to live a normal life, but as it turned out, there weren’t any people that knew how to live it, so I couldn’t learn. Fortunately, it turned out that there actually were people that knew how to live, these were Christian people. When I saw these people, I could tell that they are not living as the rest of this world. I saw and heard the Gospel from them. I was invited to visit a church and I enjoyed my first visit. Third time I was there, I repented my sins, realized that I was a sinful being, and invited Jesus into my life. From that moment, Jesus is my Savior. There I learned in faith about the baptism of the Holy Spirit and now I am baptized in the Holy Spirit.


Golovinov Alex
My childhood and youth were spent in the warmth of my family, under grandmother’s stories for the night and mom’s chatter in the mornings when she set me off to school… Alex grew and from flourishing in studies and hopeful student of Soviet high school, he very soon turned into an egoistic uncontrollable underage criminal. The first time my younger brother and I were tried in seventh grade for robbing a store. Because I was a minor, I was not sent to the boy’s colony, instead I was on probation under parents’ responsibility. Soon I found out that my father is an experienced drug-addict that has ties with the criminal world and a previously convicted person that is acquainted with the concept of this world. Since then, my gaze was fastened on the criminal environment and just because of mom I kept going to school and institutes but my heart already desired easy money, night clubs, and entertainment. There were moments when someone unseen knocked at my heart and bright thoughts came to my blurry mind, but I dismissed them like something unnatural to me. I accounted it as depression. Years went by. I was already 20 years old. I didn’t finish any of my institute studies, didn’t work anywhere, didn’t become happy, didn’t help my family, didn’t get married or divorced, in one word I didn’t achieve anything worthy in my life, but I could not stop, I didn’t know how to live in any other way. The formula of my life – lie, steal, slack off. Even the probation boundaries didn’t stop me, I started believing that will never be sent to jail or seriously punished... “For whatever a man sows, that he will also reap…” Soon I was convicted and for three years freedom was taken away from me. In the closed cycle: “the plan”, drinking, discotheque, girls, crimes, there formed a vacuum. In SIZO I turned to God sincerely for the first time. Yet my motive was to set myself free no matter what. Time went by, I understood that I will have to serve my whole term and here my search for God ended. But God never stopped searching for me. There were different situations: testimonies of Christians, communications, grief, losing money in gambling, beating up, depression, lie, betrayal, and hypocrisy. It was worth going through all this in order to see God’s great mercy and kindness. Most likely, there was no other way for me to come to God. While watching a film “Jesus” at the jail, I repented and gave my life to God. I was given nine more months for being Christian. There I received Holy Spirit. Praise the Lord! Right now, I am a member of a local church. I take part in the rehabilitation service, spreading the Word of God in prisons, and the preaching of the Gospel. Lastly, I want to say: only in Jesus I found meaning of life. Now I know the purpose of my life. I know that someone needs me and that I am loved sincerely and I love as well. Praise the Lord!

Levsha Oleg
Friends! I want to testify to you about my salvation and what God is doing in my life right now.
Since childhood my life, as it seemed to me, went by normally, everything standard. I lived in a well-being family; I lived in prosperity, played soccer and graduated school. But something was not there, I was searching for something. And I found it. In the year of 1994, I tried drugs for the first time – it was marihuana. I smoked it and it seemed to be what I needed. I was always happy – continuous happiness. About six months went by and I tried a different drug – heroin. Stealing, lying, and robbing were the ways of acquiring it. I felt like something must happen in my life, that I will be held responsible for all the crimes. In 1997, I was convicted for three years. While in the jail, I heard the Word of God but at the time it was just a collection of words to me, it wasn’t interesting for me. When I was set free in 1999, I started leading a sinful life once again. While living such a life, I was always loosing something. I lost friends, trust of the people that saw something and someone in me, I lost my family. My mom did not believe a word I said. While I was “creating such miracles”, my mother attended church and prayed for me. Right now I understand and thank her, and the church as well, for praying for me. I have no words to describe how merciful God is to me, I thank Him for this.
Left on my own, having lost everything, and being unwanted scared me. I understood that there is an escape somewhere but I thought that it was not for me, I thought my door was closed. I humbled myself thinking that it is my fate to be a drug addict. And you know what guys, it scared me. I was questioning myself “Why is it the way it is? Why is everything so bad?” I decided to use my last chance – turn to God. I kneeled and simply started yelling and crying. I was saying: “God if you are real, if you can hear me, then help me. I am tired to live my life like this, I want to start on a new life.” I am not sure how long this prayer lasted, but when I stood up reassurance came into my heart and into my head saying that everything’s going to be alright. Not long have past and God brought me to the church, located on 44 Karjerna. There is a rehabilitation center that I am enrolled in right now. I thank God for coming into my life and becoming a Boss of my life. I am totally giving my life into God’s hands and I won’t ever regret that I did. All glory to Him!
I want address to you who’s reading these lines. Invite Jesus into your life, because he is able to change your life. Let him into your heart and you’ll see miracles occurring in your life.
Jesus is the truth, Jesus is salvation.
Be blessed my friends!

Babiychuk Artem
I was born in 1976 in city Kyiv. When I was less than 15 years old, my life didn’t differ much from the life of my peers. Soon a bunch of boys that shared same interests grew into different gangs. Few of the interests that they shared were rape and drugs. Noticing my changing behavior, my parents decided that schooling and education in another city would serve me good. In 1993 I became a student, my education was in city Lviv. But in fifth grade I got expelled and I again turned out to be in the capital city Kiev where youngsters continued the life I have known before. The only difference was that many of my friends have already tried heroin. My life resulted in a deep crack. It was so deep that from the deepness of my dark soul, I couldn’t see any light. My main problem was myself and my sin, which I was a slave of. Came that day, when I needed to make one of the most important decisions of my life. I am not talking about the days that I tried to break off loose from the drugs (I’ve had many of these “Mondays” and “New Years”), but of the day, when sitting in a church, I heard a call urging for repentance. I was faced with a choice. Either hope for the salvation or materialistic world that I lived in. To say honestly, I didn’t doubt long. I was tired and broken by my past, and words that were heard from the platform started crushing my hardened heart. I let God in my heart, I resigned my self under God’s will. From this moment my life changed, I gained total freedom, and there was a meaning to my life. Right now I am in a process of rehabilitation, where brothers in Christ are alongside who also had similar problems.
I want to address to you, who will be reading these lines! Jesus can change you life too. Invite him into your life, and He won’t delay with an answer. These words are not words from a mentally ill drug addict.
Jesus – is the truth and a door to salvation.