Authors

Alexander Atlas, the author of the book "My Path to God," excerpts from which are offered for your attention, tells the true, personal story of his life before he became a believer in the Lord Jesus and after. For the past 33 years, he has been living with his wife in Israel and experiencing together with his people everything that happens in Israel itself and around it. "I am deeply convinced," says Alexander, "that after reading this book, each of you will relate differently to our country and our people! And with greater understanding will read those verses in the Bible in which the Lord God speaks about His chosen people and about the attitude of other peoples toward them. May the Lord bless you and fill you with His special presence while reading this book!"

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Alexander Dmitrievich Bespalov was born in 1908 in the village of Malaya Lepetika, located in the Velikolepetikhsky District of the Kherson Region. In 1926, at the age of 18, he was baptized and became a member of the Evangelical Christian Church. Having demonstrated sincere faith and a desire for spiritual ministry, Alexander Dmitrievich was sent to Leningrad Bible courses for the training of ministers. He became one of the students of the last graduating class of these courses, which operated in Leningrad until the beginning of the brutal persecution of religious organizations in the Soviet Union. After completing his training, he most likely continued his spiritual ministry in Evangelical Christian Baptist communities in Ukraine, possibly in the Dnipropetrovsk region, where he was listed as a resident in 1998. His life is an example of faithfulness to God and Christian ministry in the face of repression and spiritual pressure.

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Alexander Kalinsky was born in a non-Christian military family and grew up in Germany. He came to faith in 1994. Two years later, he entered Donetsk Christian University and started a new church "Dzherelo zhyttya," in Russian "Source of Life," in the city of Zdolbunov, where he serves as a pastor to this day. In 1998, he entered the Ukrainian Theological Seminary. A year later, he was ordained for pastoral ministry. In 2007, he graduated from the School of Biblical Preaching, later – the International Institute of Soul Care "Coram Deo." Married. Father of six children and grandfather of ten grandchildren.

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He was born on February 5, 1957, in Voronezh. He received higher education at the Faculty of Architecture of the Voronezh Institute of Civil Engineering. He is now a designer and master cabinetmaker. In his youth, he read Yevgeny Yevtushenko's poem "Bratsk Hydroelectric Station" and, deeply impressed, "took up the pen." Twice, still in Soviet times, he attempted to publish in the magazines "Youth" and "Spark" – but alas, after rejections, he abandoned writing for a long time. In 2010, when joining the regional writers' union "Military Commonwealth," he published two collections of early poems – "Reflections" and "Glimmers." Since 2015, having become an active (hundreds of thousands of readings) internet user, he "got into writing" and is ready to publish a 4-volume collection.

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Alexander Polishchuk is from Ukraine. Even at school age, he developed a great love for literature, read a lot, and wrote poems that he showed to no one, just for himself. Living in a country where everyone said there was no God, he always felt that He existed.

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Savchenko Alexander Petrovich is a doctor and theologian, clergyman, poet and writer, author of bestsellers 'Diamonds of Thought,' 'Companion of a Christian Doctor,' 'Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge,' and 'Pearls of Thought.' He graduated from the Mariupol State University Medical Institute and the Odessa Theological Seminary. He served as a pastor and missionary in Ukraine and the USA.

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'My creative biography,' writes the author, 'is unremarkable. Like most people, during school years there were first attempts to surprise the world with some talent. I sent my "masterpieces" to "Pionerskaya Pravda." My poems were published in the school newspaper.'

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Alexander Valuiskyi lives in the USA, California. For the past ten years, he has been working as a Protestant chaplain in hospitals, hospices, and correctional facilities in the state of California, and teaches World Religions at Phoenix University.

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When on May 25, 1956, two months premature, I was born, the midwife who delivered me told my mother: 'He won't survive'... However, her predictions did not come true. I survived! Thanks to the efforts of my grandmother and the prayers of my parents.

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Alexei was born in 1978 in the Kemerovo region (Western Siberia). From birth – first disability group (craniocerebral trauma). From an early age, he began to think about the meaning of life. He believed in Christ at 14, and at 17 – received water baptism. Since that time, he began to write poetry. Author of collections: "Flight of the Soul" (2005), "Music of the Heart" (2009), "Heartbeat of a Dream" (2014), "In the Embrace of Life" (2023). He has two higher educations (secular and spiritual): a philologist of the Russian language and a Bachelor of Theology.

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Alexei Sheyn is a writer and playwright. Author of the novel "Seven Stones" ("Sem Kamyanёŭ"), which received the European Science Fiction Society award in the "Best Debut" nomination (Dortmund, 2017). Winner of the Exlibris non-fiction literature competition. Finalist of the national competition for the best book for children and teenagers "Tsyotka Prize." Awarded the diploma "Top Five Belarusian Authors." Member of the Union of Belarusian Writers, the Belarusian PEN Center, and the Belarusian Association of Journalists.

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He was born on August 17, 1966, in the city of Pavlodar (Kazakhstan; then USSR). At the age of 13, he began singing in the choir of the Evangelical Christian Baptist (ECB) church in Pavlodar. In 1984, he was baptized in the same church and in the same year was drafted into the Soviet army. In 1984-86, due to his refusal to take the military oath, he served in a construction battalion in the city of Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk region. After serving in the army, he became the leader of church youth and a preacher in the ECB church in Pavlodar. On July 12, 1989, he emigrated to Germany. In 1995, he established the international publishing house "Titel" (Titel-Verlag) in the city of Idar-Oberstein (Germany), and at the same time started a new evangelical church in the city of Birkenfeld. He received his education at the Moscow State University of Printing Arts, specializing in "Publishing and Editing." From 1996 to 2016, he was the official representative of the "Top Secret" holding in Western European countries. In 1998, he founded a monthly publication – "International Christian Newspaper" (which is printed in four countries around the world). He is the editor-in-chief of the "International Christian Newspaper." He is married, has four children and six grandchildren. He is a pastor of the Evangelical Christian Baptist church (ordained on October 8, 2000), a Christian journalist, an active blogger, maintains a page in "LiveJournal" and a channel on YouTube.

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