FaithSearch International

Proclaiming the Gospel with Evidence to All Peoples Everywhere

Schedule an Event Today!

952-401-4501

  • Home
  • Events ▾
    • Events Calendar
    • Community Building ▾
      • FaithSearch Discovery
      • FaithSearch Origins
      • FaithSearch Destiny
      • FaithSearch Answers
      • Unmasking the Masquerade
      • Explore the Evidence Community Breakfast!
    • Church Training ▾
      • Friend to Friend
      • Growing Faith
      • Operation Armor: Youth Initiative ▾
        • Explore the Evidence Youth Camp
      • Explore the Evidence Holy Land Tour
    • Speakers ▾
      • Dr. Don Bierle
      • Adrian Van Vactor
      • Dr. Oleg Voskresensky
    • Event Reports
  • Questions ▾
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Amazing Discoveries
    • Paraclete: News and Evidence
  • Dr. Don’s Blog ▾
    • Happ-O-getics
    • Christmas
    • Origins
      • Creation
      • Evolution
      • Intelligent Design
  • About ▾
    • Our Staff
    • Meet Our Speakers
    • News from the Field
    • Statement of Faith
    • What People Are Saying…
    • What Leaders Are Saying…
  • Connect ▾
    • Schedule an Event
    • Feedback
  • Donate ▾
    • Give to FaithSearch International – Support Gospel Evidence Today
      • FaithSearch Policy on Donated Funds
    • Many Ways You Can Help
  • Resources ▾
    • Checkout
    • Cart
    • Browse Catalog
    • Resource Categories
    • My Account
  • Learning
    Center
You are here: Home / Events / Thank you for coming to our Benefit Banquet!

Thank you for coming to our Benefit Banquet!

May 3, 2012 By Dr. Oleg Voskresensky, Teacher

2012 Benefit Banquet
2012 Benefit Banquet

Some of you liked my “story” at the Banquet. So, here it is again:

The story of the FaithSearch Russian Ministry is best told in the form of a conversation that went something like this.

God: Dear Dr. Bierle, being a scientist and a researcher you must have noticed that chunk of land that is usually colored red on your maps and where people speak Russian. For some odd reason I love Russians and I want you to expand the FaithSearch Ministry to that land. 
Dr. Bierle: Yes, Lord. But I don’t speak Russian. “O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant.” (Ex. 4:10)
God: I know. But look how wonderfully the ministry had already worked in India and in Latin America without you having to learn any of those languages.
Dr. Bierle: I got it. I will hire somebody to translate my Surprised by Faith book and to take the “Discovery” presentation to the Russian people.
Oleg: “Here I am. Send me.” (Isaiah 6:8)
God: I will. But in the meantime I want you to make this material so culturally acceptable and academically solid that it can be used in the Russian public schools.
Oleg and Dr. Bierle: Russian public schools?
God: Yes, and state universities.
Dr. Bierle: But last time I checked Russians were sending people to prisons for proclaiming the Gospel.
God: Yes, I know.
Oleg: And the last time I checked it was illegal to openly speak of faith even in the American schools.
God: I know, I know. Just do what I want you to do:
      – first, get Oleg on the Ph.D. track with the Russian State Pedagogical University so that he can have a free access to the teachers and student-teachers audiences
      – secondly, have him write the “Introduction to Christianity” textbook for the Russian public schools 
      – and thirdly, make the FaithSearch Discovery materials available to all these audiences for free in all possible media and in all channels – on CDs, on the Internet, in video, audio and text format.
Oleg: But what then will we do if the doors to the public schools and universities are guarded in Russia even harder than their military installations?
God: I will open those doors for you that nobody will ever be able to close. I will put you in front of thousands of school teachers each year with the presentation of the Gospel with Evidence. I will have you teach the course on the “Rational and Historic Foundations of Christian Faith” in state universities and at Teachers’ training conferences.
Joe Komarek: This is nice but aren’t we too small of a ministry for such a large scale of trainings and conferences all over this huge territory!
God: Your trainings do not have to be large if you teach teachers and train trainers – they will carry on the task of multiplication of your efforts. Each time you will be teaching a group of 30 or 40 teachers, I want you imagine hundreds of students they will effect in their classrooms. Each time you will present the Gospel to a class of university students, I want you to multiply it by the thousands each of them will share it with in the course of their teaching career.
Joe Komarek: Wow. As a math teacher, I am really impressed by how You can crank the numbers. But can you also do it for our resources?
God: Oh, please, let me worry about resources, finances and other minor circumstances. First, I will have the Russian Government to pay at least some of Oleg’s transportation and lodging expenses. It won’t be much but I’ll make them do it anyway – just for the kick.
Oleg: I still have a family to feed, air tickets to pay for, materials to print, etc., etc.
God: Yes, I know. But there is something I want you to also always remember: I already paid the highest price for those souls. Do you think I will not raise enough support to see them coming to know Me?
Oleg, Dr. Bierle, Joe Komarek and the FaithSearch Staff choir: Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!

It was delight to see you there and to share the joy of serving the Lord with you! Please continue to pray for the Russian Ministry as I am awaiting for the “Go” or “Not go” from a supporting church for my next teaching trip to Russia in June.

Filed Under: Events

Recent Posts

  • 2023 June-July: Turkey and Uzbekistan
  • 2023 May Trip to Russia: Samara, Moscow, Novokuznetsk, Bryansk
  • May 2023: Nizhniy Novgorod, Kolomna, Samara, Moscow, Novokuznetsk, and Bryansk
  • The Jewish Synagogue and the Gospel
  • God: “It’s Getting Crowded Up Here!”
  • Using the Sun to Clean Up the Earth

What People Are Saying…

FaithSearch Origins

This presentation has given me answers to some of the questions I've been asked before that I didn't know quite how to answer.  Awesome job!

-EB Event Participant Elk River, MN February 22, 2017

Read More Testimonials
  • Home
  • Events ▾
    • Events Calendar
    • Community Building ▾
      • FaithSearch Discovery
      • FaithSearch Origins
      • FaithSearch Destiny
      • FaithSearch Answers
      • Unmasking the Masquerade
      • Explore the Evidence Community Breakfast!
    • Church Training ▾
      • Friend to Friend
      • Growing Faith
      • Operation Armor: Youth Initiative ▾
        • Explore the Evidence Youth Camp
      • Explore the Evidence Holy Land Tour
    • Speakers ▾
      • Dr. Don Bierle
      • Adrian Van Vactor
      • Dr. Oleg Voskresensky
    • Event Reports
  • Questions ▾
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Amazing Discoveries
    • Paraclete: News and Evidence
  • Dr. Don’s Blog ▾
    • Happ-O-getics
    • Christmas
    • Origins
      • Creation
      • Evolution
      • Intelligent Design
  • About ▾
    • Our Staff
    • Meet Our Speakers
    • News from the Field
    • Statement of Faith
    • What People Are Saying…
    • What Leaders Are Saying…
  • Connect ▾
    • Schedule an Event
    • Feedback
  • Donate ▾
    • Give to FaithSearch International – Support Gospel Evidence Today
      • FaithSearch Policy on Donated Funds
    • Many Ways You Can Help
  • Resources ▾
    • Checkout
    • Cart
    • Browse Catalog
    • Resource Categories
    • My Account
  • Learning
    Center

What People Are Saying…

Surprised by Faith book

Far from being a "leap in the dark," faith is the reasonable and rational response to an honest examination of facts, postulates Dr. Don Bierle in his simultaneously scholarly and easy to read book Surprised by Faith.  In six concise chapters he lays out the evidence for biblical Christianity in a straight forward and logical ... Read more >>

-Bruce Montgomery, D. Min. Pastor, Grace Church Desert Hot Springs, CA

Read More Testimonials
Donate to FaithSearch

FaithSearch International celebrates over forty years of proclaiming the Gospel with evidence to all peoples everywhere. Thank you for considering being a prayer and financial … Read More >>

About FaithSearch – Our Promise

The mission of FaithSearch International is to "Extend the Gospel with Evidence to all peoples Everywhere." FaithSearch delivers the "Ah-ha!" moment in your church and community with an exciting, … Read More >>

Search our Site

Member of ECFA


FaithSearch is a member in good standing of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability® (ECFA).
All donations to FaithSearch are tax deductible to the full extent of IRS regulations.

Archives

  • May 2023
  • April 2023
  • March 2023
  • February 2023
  • December 2022
  • November 2022
  • October 2022
  • September 2022
  • August 2022
  • July 2022
  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • August 2020
  • June 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • September 2015
  • June 2015
  • April 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • September 2014
  • July 2014
  • June 2014
  • May 2014
  • April 2014
  • March 2014
  • February 2014
  • January 2014
  • December 2013
  • November 2013
  • October 2013
  • September 2013
  • August 2013
  • July 2013
  • June 2013
  • May 2013
  • April 2013
  • March 2013
  • February 2013
  • January 2013
  • December 2012
  • November 2012
  • October 2012
  • September 2012
  • August 2012
  • July 2012
  • June 2012
  • May 2012
  • April 2012
  • March 2012
  • February 2012
  • January 2012
  • December 2011
  • November 2011
  • October 2011
  • September 2011
  • August 2011
  • July 2011
  • May 2011
  • April 2011
  • March 2011
  • February 2011
  • December 2010

FaithSearch International

6750 France Ave. S., STE 270
Edina, MN 55435

952.401.4501

Office hours are Tu-Th, 9:00 AM-4:00 PM

Schedule NOW

Bring a Speaker to your Church

Main Events

FaithSearch: Discovery

FaithSearch: Origins

FaithSearch: Destiny

FaithSearch: Supernatural Exposed

About Us

Get to know FaithSearch

Terms and Conditions

Privacy Policy
Policy on Donated Funds
Return Policy
Terms and Conditions

Handcrafted with by The J3 Effect. Powered by the Genesis Framework.

Copyright © 2023