Duk Sen Sean

How did you learn about Moscow Evangelical Christian Seminary?

I learned about the Moscow Evangelical Christian Seminary from the newspaper “Christian advertisement”. 

Why did you choose this Seminary?

I think I chose this Seminary because the Holy Spirit had opened this to me before I got the newspaper “Christian advertisement”. I prayed to God to help me to study at the Seminary in order to improve my ministry of preaching. In 2001 I fasted 40 days. God gave me this wish to study. And only 3 years later He opened me this way.      

What ministry are you going to have during your studies at the Seminary?

If God allows me, I’d like to have the ministry of prayer, evangelism or another ministry God wants me to have and to preach thus the Word of God and tell other people about grace of Jesus Christ.   

How did you become a Christian?

Before I started visiting the church and repented I was a non-Christian and I really believed in the idea of International socialism, where it was said that all people are equal but everything was crushed when I learned better the social life in the Soviet Union: school, friends and the Pioneer organization.  When I was twelve, I was firmly convinced that socialistic ideas couldn’t make me happy. I started a criminal life where I could protect myself and my moral rights, though it was done in a wrong way.  In short I disagreed with the injustice of that time that humiliated people, infringed upon their moral rights. The results of such life were drugs, criminal groups, vagrancy and hooliganism. There was the question: what do I live for? My mother could partly answer it when I was lonely and painful. My mother has been praying for me for 4 years. She told me about Jesus Christ, His love and invited me to the church. After visiting an evangelistic meeting, I repented and started separating from the world. Three years later I decided to live for God and devote to Him all my life. I have been serving the Lord for seven years and I’ve never regretted my decision.             

What are your plans after graduation from the Seminary?

My main aim is to serve God but I also have a concrete purpose and dream of my life. They are to follow Jesus, to preach the Gospel and make new disciples. I have the Word from God about the renewal of Russia and my ministry in this country as a pastor of a church. I pray and want to hope that it will be not at the level of a local church but in the whole country. I believe in the church of the last times that will help the dying world, give people salvation and bring them the answers of God in the social, economic and political spheres. I believe that God’s name will be glorified and devil’s affairs will be disclosed and disgraced. I also believe that a strong, trained church and its members who are really consecrated to God will manage in the country – at schools and Universities, in the army, at State enterprises, in the political government of Russia.

My prayer is to spread the Gospel in Russia and in other countries of the former Soviet Union and among their people. My dream is the church that gives life, answer, solves vital problems, heals the sick and releases those who are possessed with demons, the church where love predominates and that gives salvation, prosperity and victory