Hello! My name is Ivan (eng. John).
I was born in Siberia and then moved and lived in Chernobyl till 1986.
1986 After the catastrophe (nuclear plant explosion) I moved to Kiev.
1994 I accepted Jesus as my personal Savior.
1995 I was baptized. After a high school, I entered a technical college.
2000 Graduated Kiev Nuclear Power Engineering Tech College.
2000 Graduated Kiev Theological Seminary as a Bachelor in Theology.
My wife and I live in Kiev, Ukraine. We were married on April 8th year 2000.
I work as a designer and a translator.
About the site
Uucyc.net (Uucyc looks like Jesus in Russian) is a Christian resource web site that is one of a very select few directed to the Russian speaking people (400 million world wide).
As you can see this site is in Russian language only! One of the major reasons is that there are many English Christian sites (like http://reachout.gospelcom.net) while there is a great lack of
such sites in Russian language!
The idea of making this site came at the xUSSR Youth Leader Conference. The conference took place in Moscow, Russia in October 2000.
110+ Christian workers agreed that there is a big lack for Christian resources in Russian language! 60% of them had Internet Access. God gave me an idea to collect all collectable resources so many for the Glory of God could use them!
The site consist of many quality resources, such as: sermons, illustrations, stories, quotes, jokes, games and other good things that might be useful for pastors, youth leaders, Sunday school teachers, camps leaders and many other church workers!
We made a research on who our visitors were.
300 of them answered the question and here are the results:
28% - are different leaders, such as Sunday School leaders;
25% - are youth leaders;
18% - are lay members;
13% - are unbelievers;
11% - are pastors of the churches;
5% - are deacons!
As you see, the audience is really different! And that's NO wonder! - the site has interesting resources for each of the categories!
In 3,5 year of our existence we already had more than 1,5 million visitors! In the beginning of the year 2004 daily average number of visitors were 2000 visitors (20,000+ hits daily)!" You can see present statistic and logs here.
Help needed
Russian Christian sites are often a target of the hacker attacks. Our site was recently turned off because of the Service Denial Attack. Please pray for God's protection of this ministry (Ex. 34:24).
The yearly site budget is $650+; this covers hosting, bills, internet and postage (sending printed resources to the one that have no internet) payments only. All the work is done voluntarily! Please consider personal or group donation today so that we may continue to help Christian Ministries to develop and blossom out. If regular support were not possible, any gift would be gratefully received. Please consider it, pray about it…"
More information on financial support here
If you have any questions please feel free to ask!
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