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Testimonies

from "Living Israel" rehabilitation center

Stas and Irina

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...

Stas and IrinaMy name is Stas and I’m thirty years old. I’m sorry to have to admit this, but I wasted thirteen years of my life by actively doing things which were highly destructive to my body via several illegal drugs including: heroin, marijuana, alcohol, not to mention other bad habits. In the year 2000, I learned of God for the first time in a Christian rehabilitation center in Jerusalem. After staying there for a relatively short period of time, I became a backslider and began to use drugs again. But, the firmly planted seed of Jesus’ Word had sprouted and slowly began to grow within me. This seed continued to grow and prosper within me after a period of four years.
I then went to a rehabilitation Center in Nazareth where I repented, became baptized and met the woman who would eventually become my wife, Irina. We left the Rehab Center, got married and sadly, we both began to use drugs again. Even while we were still addicted God provided for our two children, protecting them and us and us from any number of dangerous diseases so commonly found among drug addicts. God even provided us with protection from Social Workers who wanted to take our children away from us. Fortunately, with Gods’ grace, we found Congregation ‘Living Israel’ in February of 2008, where we completed our rehabilitation and School for Disciples. We decided to give our lives to Jesus Christ, and to commit our lives to His service. Since then God has blessed us with another daughter named Valeria. We owe so very much to God and to Living Israel.

January 2010