unbelievable but true! :: miracles

Everybody rejected me, but

God embraced and raised me!

Nikolay Grishin

Age 39

When my mother was in her eighth month of pregnancy (she was expecting me) my father died in crash. I grew up without father.

Thoughts that I am a castaway haunted me all my life. I hated myself and the folks about me. I had feeling of pity for myself and feeling of guilt. I was afflicted with a sense of inferiority.

All men in my family were alcoholics. I also sought my fortune and sanctuary in the bottle.

By that time when I worked as a surgeon's assistant in the hospital, I couldn't satisfy my demands. I began to steal psychotropic pills. Gradually, I became a doper. I washed down drugs with vodka in order to turn the trick.

Very often I thought about committing a suicide. I was looking for the best way to do this. I wanted to jump from the 16-th floor, but I didn't want people to look at my deformed body.

Thrice I tried to poison myself with pills. I wonder, why I didn't die!

I lost my job, my home, and my family. I picked up bottles and food in dust-heaps.

My whole sister is a Christian; she prayed for me and invited to visit the church.

Once, I came to the church and something unbelievable happened to me. God touched my heart and I gave it to Him.

I was treated in the Christian Rehabilitation Center. God delivered me from alcohol and drugs after 18 years of addiction.

I got freedom from the spirit of rejection and depression. I felt that God and people need me.

I began servicing in the Stephania cafe from the first day of its opening. Now I am a chief deputy of the cafe and help people who are in the same situation as I was before.

I've got a new life with Jesus Christ thanks to His mercy and great love.

I was dying of depression…

Sergey Semenchenko

Age 29

I grew up in a troubled family. My father was on the drink and beat my mother. I felt lonely, unloved and rejected.

When I was 14 I began drinking. As time went on I became an alcoholic. I drank away my motorcycle license (police deprived me of license when I was overcome with drink at the wheel).

A great while I was in slavery of lechery, onanism and pornography.

As a result I had a thinking of self-abasement. I thought I could do nothing; I thought everyone was better than I was; I thought everyone realized his ideas but not me, I wasn't worthy of the family and success. I was in the state of depression and prostration of mind and spirit.

I came to the Stephania cafe by chance and here I knew about God. With the help of Lord my thinking and character changed. After 11 years of alcoholism God delivered me from it. I don't drink 4 years already. I am free of lechery, onanism and pornography.

I graduated from the Bible Institute. Now I have a thinking of winner. I am sure I will have a success in my life, I will have a big ministry.

I'm very grateful to the Social partnership Fund for the creation of the Stephania cafe. When I was in need they fed me with tasty food, dressed and told me about Father's love.

Thank you! May God bless you for your labor!

Peter Kozeruk

Age 42

I served 18 years in jail. After discharge I became homeless. I knew about Stephania cafe by chance. I came here, repented and wonderful changes became to appear in my life. I have prospect to get dwelling, I found a job (temporary) and I believe that God will help me in everything.

Maria Amurlaeva

Age 50

All members of my family died in motor accident. Now I have only grandson. If there were no Stephania and church, we wouldn't survive.