| Student's Name |
Anna Valeryevna Burmistrova |
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| Date of birth |
9 May, 1982 |
| Place and country of birth |
Ryazan |
| Marital status |
Single |
| Program of study |
Master of Divinity |
| Projected date of graduation |
2007 |
| Previous education |
Higher education (teacher- philologist) |
How did you learn about Moscow Evangelical Christian Seminary?
From Kornilov Nikolay A., my pastor
Why did you choose this Seminary?
Kornilov Nikolay, my pastor, recommended it to me.
What ministry are you going to have during your studies at the Seminary?
Children’s ministry
How did you become a Christian?
When I was nine, my sisters and I started visiting the Evangelical Christian Baptist Church. Once one of my mother’s acquaintances came to visit us and told us about the church she had recently started visiting. She gave us the New Testament with illustrations and invited us to the Sunday school.
My mother raised us (three daughters) by herself. It was very difficult to her. But she wanted us to be good and decent people. That’s why she decided that visiting the Sunday school would be useful for our development. Nobody could even suppose that this decision would change her life and ours, too.
Until that moment neither my mother nor her parents had visited a church. My grandfather was an atheist; my grandmother and my mother were neither passionate atheists nor orthodox Christians. My sisters and I did not always want to go to Sunday School. Our mother often made us go there. Later we had new friends and new hobbies. We started visiting not only the Sunday school but also Sunday services. Soon, one could see the changes in our behavior and the relationships among us. When we were having our lesson at the Sunday school our mother was waiting for us in the hall together with other parents, where a Christian woman, a librarian in our church, was talking to them. Then our mother began visiting the Sunday services, was baptized and had her ministry at the church. We usually read the Bible and pray in the evening. We also invited the brother and sisters from our church to our place, so that our grandparents would also become Christians. But our grandfather didn’t want to go to a church, especially to the protestant one and granny was ill and couldn’t do it.
I repented at the age of twelve or thirteen, invited Jesus into my heart. When I was seventeen I was baptized, had a ministry at the church, working mostly with the children (Sunday School, AWANA, Christian camps, working with the kids from three to six). Both my sisters also repented and were baptized. My grandfather started reading the Bible, studying it and praying. Our granny also started doing the same but she still doesn’t understand much in our life and our faith and follows for the most part the Orthodox traditions.
What are your plans after graduation from the Seminary?
Work for God and serve Him. | 