Who are YOU??? Who am I???

Just wanted to introduce myself.

My name is Mark Burykin. I was born in former Soviet Union. I lived here for 16 years already, you can say that I am Americanized. Currently I attend a Pentecostal Slavic church. I am a bible student and a bible teacher. I am a hardcore bible student since a few years ago, I never knew it can be this addictive.

I have finished 4-year college with a degree of science. As many of you aware, after college you usually come out a liberal Christian and I was one. Sorry if I offend any liberals here, I am a fundamentalist now. On top of that I was not a fully devoted Christian. Other thing mattered to me more then God did, while I proclaimed otherwise at that time. I was baptized 12 years ago in a Baptist Church not for the Love of God but for the fear of the Devil. Only recently I have became a fully devoted Christian. God had put me and my twin brother through hardships to calls us fully to him. My brother was in a tragic car accident, best friend died after they attended a Slavic Conference, I was suppose to be in the car with them but God had other plans for me. I never cried on any funeral before, but that funeral made me cry like a baby. Then God put me to jail, took all my money. Not that I suffered without money, I am from Russia from a Christian big family, I know what poor is and I was not suffering. Jail was just a place to think everything through. God knows what buttons to push, he don’t have to make me look in the eyes of death to realize the truth, which my brother did as he flew out of the cars window at around 100mph hitting the pavement of the highway. It’s a miracle that he did not die. Anyways that’s my life in nutshell, now I am a married man seeking to be a missionary teacher.

I would not consider my self a heavy weight theologian or anything like that. But I do teach in an adult group in my church. It was a very interesting experience how God opened up my mind and showed me the truth. Before I got married I was involved with the youth, I still consider my self a kid compare to a lot of you here. I am only 27 right now. Anyway, I would like to get to know a lot of you here. Maybe Lord sent me here to meet a few of you who have the same desires/plans as I do. Just let me know who you guys are and little about you. What are you looking to do for the Lord in your near or far future?

Hope to hear from you all

Mark B