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Testimonies

from "Living Israel" rehabilitation center

Michael "The French"        Age: 34

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...

I grew up near the train station in Yaroslavl, Russia. This is where I began my “school of life”. From my childhood I was an adventurer. I was a gambler (played cards) for large sums. Quite honestly, I was a bandit. This was not just in Russia and Israel but also all over Europe. 5 times I served time in prisons in Russia, Germany and Switzerland. At the age of 24 I began using hard drugs such as heroin and crack cocaine. About 2 years ago, after having been released from prison in Germany the emptiness of my life began to make a strong, negative impact upon how I felt about myself. I had no goals. A terrible loneliness overtook me. I screamed to the heaven: “Is there anybody there? My soul is dying!”. 3 months later I arrived in Israel. On my 33th birthday I met Volodia, the pastor of our rehab center. When I came to the rehab center I met God, and was delivered from drugs and sin. I, thankfully, became a member of a large family of believers in God and His son, my Savior Jesus Christ. Now i have a goal in my life — to serve God.