Andrei, tell us how your life in the Lord began? - By 2000, my life was in such a state that I understood that I did not have long to live. More than 20 years of drug addiction, almost 15 years in prison, an open form of tuberculosis - a complete dead end ... It was in this state that the Lord found me. As I later found out, my Pentecostal relatives, who left for America in the late eighties, prayed for me for a long time. Knowing my fate, they prayed for me and a miracle happened - God found me and on April 5, 2000 (it was Wednesday) I ran to the church. It was the church "New Generation" in the Dnieper. There I repented, and after that, I got to the Sunday service at the Way Home Church — it was there that I made a covenant with God, began to serve Him, and met my future wife. From the very first day, miracles began to accompany me: I smoked the last cigarette on the way to church, God completely freed me from drug addiction. A week later, I took a fluorography and blood test, and immediately admitted there that I had tuberculosis - for the last two years I have been in a colony for tuberculosis patients, I was registered in a tuberculosis dispensary. And when I came a week later for the results of the tests, they asked me: “What makes you think that you are sick with tuberculosis?” I got a picture in my hands - and my lungs are absolutely clean, I was deregistered at the tuberculosis dispensary. Ever since those days, I never imagined that one could be just a nominal believer. A group of ministers and I drove 70 km from the Dnieper and started a rehabilitation center in an abandoned house. A year later, I returned from there to the church in Dnipro, and about fifty people were already undergoing rehabilitation there. In the church, I started a home group, served in an order group, and later began to serve dependents and co-dependents. In 2002, with God's miracles and His intervention, the Resurrection Charitable Foundation was born - a regional public organization that operates to this day. Thanks to this fund, we were able to serve in various colonies and prisons in the Dnepropetrovsk region. We carried out actions together with the regional administration and the police. In 2005, the Minister of Internal Affairs and the Chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine presented me personally with a medal "For Assistance in the Fight against Drug Crime." Together with this medal, I keep four certificates of release from prison, so as not to forget where God got me from. We also received awards for preventive work with young people - high schools, colleges, and universities. In 2008 we moved from Dnipro to Novomoskovsk and started a home group there. After that, several water immersions and large-scale evangelism were held, during which about fifty Roma repented. The senior pastor of the church said that we should already open a church - and in 2009 we were ordained as pastors of the "Assembly of God" church in Novomoskovsk. – And how did you get acquainted with the Jewish messianic ministry and ended up in Israel? – My wife and I are Jews, and we always knew it, but we showed our Jewishness by trying to attend prayers for Israel, which were held by the Messianic community of Dnipro (pastor Andrey Schmeitzer, who is now my senior pastor), and the conference “Feasts of the Lord”, which were held twice a year in the Dnieper And in 2009, God miraculously opened the doors to Israel for the first time — I was invited to serve there for three months. It was a certain challenge, because I had to leave my wife with small children, but - thank God for my wife! - she let me go, and I flew to Israel. During these three months, I saw a little bit of ministry in Israel from the inside - and, to be honest, I didn’t like everything. When I returned, my wife asked me: “So what? Gathering things? And I said, “No. To go there to serve, to relax, to visit - that's welcome. But I don’t see myself in Israel…” Because here, in Ukraine, there was service, people, and responsibility. But a year and a half later, we flew to Israel together with my wife, for five weeks. Then I began to pray, realizing that God had prepared something for us. It was while there in Israel that we received a word from God, with supernatural confirmation, that it was His will for us to move to Israel and begin the ministry in Netanya. Then we did not yet have an understanding that it would be a messianic community, because we were church people. Until I left for Israel, I studied in Kyiv, at the theological academy - all my theology was Christian. But having received a word from God, we accepted it and returned from Israel with a decision. Even before we left, I spoke with the bishop and asked him if he had a vision to serve in Israel. He answered in the affirmative and asked what we expect from them. We asked him to bless us, he prayed for us and we went to undergo a consular check. It was at this time that I received from God the understanding that we would open in Israel not just a church, but precisely a messianic community. This understanding came to me through Romans 11:24, which says that "natural branches will be grafted into their olive tree. ​