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My 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
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