We had gone to the same secondary school. After graduation God had called me to believe in His Son. But He had let Anatoli experience how ruinous sin can be. When Anatoli came to our conference, he had nothing but a small bag with his personal stuff and a place to sleep in the flophouse. Because of sin and godlessness he had ended up in the gutter.
But at the conference where we talked about the role of a man in God's plan and why men do not serve their purpose, Anatoli caught his second wind to go up from the bottom of sin and despair. He stopped drinking, found a job, got a flat to live in and even met a woman he wants to marry! We try to stay in touch and meet regularly.
(In the photos we're in the cafe where we read the Bible and talked about Anatoli's life and plans for future.)
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