Edward      Age: 42

« The first miracle that God made for me was a deliverance from smoking and alcohol, which I was addicted for 20 years. »

Peter Barzakh      Age: 45

« I felt as if I couldn't live without these heightened sensations. A year later I started to use hard drugs. »

Alexander

« Anger, hatred, resentment of people, of life and toward God had finally overwhelmed me. »

Ygal      Age: 32

« My friends' appearance and his positively changed behavior attracted me to him. »

Gleb Spridonov      Age: 32

« God gave me the hope for different life that was free from drugs, smoking and stealing. »

Dmitry

« I living and am 'alive' - many thanks to Jesus Christ for that. »

Eugene

« After so many years of living in darkness, personal suffering, and time spent in prisons, I came to the rehab center of "Living Israel" congregation. »

Natalia

« For the 2.5 years, which began shortly after my divorce, I started to drink a lot more alcoholic beverages than made any sense. »

Samuel Kovarski

« By the age of 13 I had already, and deservedly so, spent time in jail. Over the course of some 20 years I'd been in various places of detention. »

Victor Bordin

« After that I became very disappointed in people and resorted to, once again, using drugs. This continued for 4 long years. »

Alexey

« I had an understanding that the nature of this emptiness in my life is spiritual, and I indulged in spiritual searches, as I thought. »

Vladimir

« Everything was great. But one day everything changed. I, foolishly, experimented with drugs and immediately became addicted. »

Stas and Irina

« But, the firmly planted seed of Jesus' Word had sprouted and slowly began to grow within me. »

Michael Fishlin

« I realized that if I were to become or actually became a 'back slider', demons could return and bring others worse than themselves along with them. »

Benjamin      Age: 38

“ After the death of my father, during a spiritual crisis,
I returned to drugs despite strong efforts, on my part, to avoid them. ”

Alexander Gez      Age: 33

“ What am I doing here in this dark, deserted house
with a candle on the table in the middle of the bustling city? ”

Maria      Age: 33

“ Of course marijuana was an integral part of what we then called „freedom”. ”

Benjamin

“ In time I found myself in prisons in Germany, Switzerland and Finland. ”

Yulia Vatkovski      Age: 28

“ I started to go to parties, drank a lot of alcohol and took ecstasy. ”

Denis

“ Now God has changed everything and being in courts is part of my service. ”

Pavel Cogan

“ I found therein my suicide note which I’d written in sheer agony. ”

Slava Ignatenko      Age: 34

“ 17 years of hard drug addiction and 5 years in prison, totally ruined my life. ”

Michael "The French"      Age: 34

“ 5 times I served time in prisons in Russia, Germany and Switzerland.”

Natalia

“ It was at time when my life was already over,
I was very ill.”

Michael Sluzkiy "Internet"

“ Up to this day lies in the cemetery in 
Kiryat Gat my tomb ”

Misha Segal "Meek" 36 years old

“ Once I jumped under a truck's wheels, but as a result I was beaten by the truck driver instead.”

Bondarenko Leonid      37 years old

“ My wife had divorced me, and I was out in the street without means of substance, and without a purpose. ”

Andrey Butenko      38 years old

“ I tried to stay "clean" by my own human efforts, but I couldn't and I fell again. ”

Andrey Nenashev      33 years old

“ The criminal environment had kind of romance, and I was attractived to it. ”

Valera Ermakov

“ I felt like a human wreck, alcohol, and the drugs took everything out of my life, what I was needing to live. ”

Gennady      39 years old

“ During the past 13 years, I was seriously addicted, and found myself five times at court. With 15 years sitting in jail, I was isolated nearly half of my life.”

Maxim      26 years old

“ After having shot an overdose of heroin in 2004 in Eilat, I was delivered to the hospital where they diagnosed me as clinically dead. ”

Rakhamimov Modest

“ The Lord stopped me from going straight to hell. ”

Boris Buksht

“ “But where do you live?”, exclaimed my friend.”

Igor Epshtein      24 years old

“ After many unsuccessful attempts with drugs, I decided to come to the rehab center in Israel.”

Anja      17 years old

“ At the age of 14 I started taking hard drugs....”