I repented back in the beginning of 1990s, shortly after the Soviet Union fell apart. A missionary couple (Ron and Jinny Cook) came from US to Kostroma, Russia to share the Gospel and plant a church. Even though I was just a kid at the time, I got involved in the church with worship and children ministries. After graduation high school I traveled to the US to study preaching at Saint Louis Christian College. I graduated college in 2002 and retuned to Russia to take on the ministry at a small city of Gus-Hrustalniy. There I met my future wife Kseniya, we go married and had three of our four children. I spent 16 years all together ministering to the church of Gus-Hrustalniy. Towards the end of that time, I felt that God was calling me to plant another church. In the end of 2018 my family and I moved to Nizhniy Novgorod with the dream of establishing a congregation there. Since that time we had our fourth child, launched several outreach projects and started a church. God has been doing His amazing work in us and through us. It's a privilege to be a part of His plan and will.