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Testimonies

from "Living Israel" rehabilitation center

Alexey

Other testimonies:

Edward

The first miracle that God made for me was a deliverance from smoking and alcohol.

Peter Barzakh

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

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

Gleb Spiridonov

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 Rabin

After so many years of living in darkness, personal suffering, and time spent in prisons, I came to God.

Natalia

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

Victor Bordin

After that I became very disappointed in people and resorted to, once again, using drugs.

Alexey

I had an understanding that the nature of this emptiness in my life is spiritual.

Vladimir

Everything was great. But one day everything changed. I, foolishly, experimented with drugs.
Stas and Irina

Stas and Irina

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

Michael Fishlin

I realized that demons could return and bring others worse than themselves along with them.
Benjamin

Benjamin

After the death of my father, during a spiritual crisis, I returned to drugs.
Alexander Gez

Alexander Gez

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

Maria

Of course marijuana was an integral part of what we then called "freedom".
Benjamin

Benjamin

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

Yulia Vatkovski

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

Denis

Now God has changed everything and being in courts is part of my service.
Pavel Cogan

Pavel Cogan

I found therein my suicide note which I’d written in sheer agony.
Slava Ignatenko

Slava Ignatenko

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

Michael "The French"

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

Natalia

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

Michael Sluzkiy "Internet"

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

Misha Segal "Meek"

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

Bondarenko Leonid

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

Andrey Butenko

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

Andrey Nenashev

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

During the past 13 years, I was seriously addicted. I was isolated in jail 15 years, nearly half of my life.

Maxim

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

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

Anja

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

My name is Alexey. I came to Israel when I was 16 years old, shortly after I graduated from school. I came alone, without my parents, via the youth studies program "Sela". I was fortunate young man, put goals in my life and achieved them. One year later I was accepted into the University of Tel Aviv. There I tried drugs for the first time. In the beginning it was grass, LSD, Ecstasy. I played a guitar in a rock band, and it was our way of looking for inspiration, and also relaxing. But after a short time I tried harder drugs, cocaine and heroin, and very quickly they began to replace everything else from my life. First I had to quit university. I began to realize that it is not self-indulgence, and I’m in drug addiction. I decided to go to the army, in order to stop using drugs there. But neither the army nor the threat of going to jail, (in the army for drug use you can go to jail) does not stop me. After a short period I lost everything: friends, girlfriend, apartment and my job. My life on the street has begun and it was full of drugs, deception, crime and loneliness. It seemed that this was a vicious circle from which there was no exit. I tried to stop using drugs, but without them my life seemed so empty and meaningless that I didn’t want to live. I had an understanding that the nature of this emptiness in my life is spiritual, and I indulged in spiritual searches, as I thought. I studied various religions and philosophical movements, but nothing has filled me, and I again returned to drugs. In 2007 I met guys who came to drug addicts in Tel Aviv street, they spoke to us, feed us and told us that they also were drug addicts, and that after they received Jesus as their Lord and Savior, He delivered them from their addiction. There I heard about the rehab center in the monastery, where I met Jesus, repented, and now I live here for year and half, study in the School for Disciples, and I feel happy. I have devoted my life to serving God, and it changed my life. I am very thankful to people who serve in this ministry, may God bless them.

August 2009.