Pastor Eduard
Eduard is a graduate of the Samara Center for Biblical Training. A gifted and experienced preacher and teacher of Scripture, Eduard has been described as a humble and faithful man of God. He has been blessed with an exemplary wife and mother of 5 beautiful children who has found the time to fully support her husband and the ministry.
Ready, willing, and able to serve where the need was very great, Eduard was drawn to a small fellowship of believers in the Volga Region. There he has faithfully devoted himself to help them grow in Christ and reach out to the lost around them with the Gospel.
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Ministry Profile for Pastor Eduard
Ready, willing, and able to serve where the need was very great, Eduard was drawn to a small fellowship of believers in the Volga Region. There he has faithfully devoted himself to help them grow in Christ and reach out to the lost around them with the Gospel.
TESTIMONY OF FAITH
I believed in Christ when I was 25 years old. Before that time I was interested in eastern philosophy, meditation, extrasensory perception, and various mystical teachings. But my search for peace for my soul had not been successful. To the contrary, my life came to a crisis and to full-on depression. I began to take an interest in the teachings of the Gospel and even attended a Bible school course. This awakened in me a hunger to hear the Word of God. Then in 1995, the Lord brought me to a Baptist church, and after conversion, I was baptized within 4 months.
In 1998 I moved from Ukraine to Siberia, Russia, because of the desire of my heart to preach the Gospel. I became involved in a church planting ministry there. In 2002 I heard of an annual pastor’ conference in Samara that included the preaching of John MacArthur by teleconferencing. God granted me the opportunity to attend that conference, and afterwards, I began attending the Samara Center for Biblical Training. I saw the quality teaching of the instructors who were down-to-earth in their fellowship, God-fearing, and genuine in their personal lives. For me, this was the most important thing. They had a desire to faithfully interpret the Scriptures. It is clear to me that the seminary helped me form a right, biblical—rather than a man-made—philosophy of ministry.
Prayer Requests
Again and again, we thank you for participation in the life of our family and ministry to our local church. Every time the Bible reminds us that the ministry to our Lord Jesus Christ is the most important thing on earth. This reminder encourages my family in this labor and supports us giving strength for ministry. We learn how to worship God and glorify Him in everything we do in the life of our small commune. One of the most important things we do is teaching in the church. And your help is a testimony of the care of our Lord Jesus Christ producing great thankfulness to Him inside my heart.
- Pray that God will establish a spiritually strong and vibrant church in this Volga community that is faithful to Scripture, evangelistic, and self-supporting.
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Pray for daily guidance and grace from our Lord for Pastor Edward and his family.
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Pray for prayer partners who will sustain the ministry in educated and consistent intercession.