God leads, I see His help
I was born into a family of two students. My parents met when they studied at the Agricultural Institute in Poltava. Mom was then only 18 years old, father 25. When I was born a year after the wedding, my mother was still studying. Raised my grandmother and grandfather in the village. Every evening my grandmother prayed, so she introduced me to the prayer "Our Father" and instilled a respectful attitude towards prayer.
At the end of the institute, my parents took me and went to the village of Zhovnino in the Chernobayevsky district of the Cherkassy region, from where my father was from. I finished school there. Since my childhood I have exhibited artistry, took part in all school plays, loved to sing, to parody.
For myself, I decided at school that I would be an actor, but could not enter the acting department. He entered the department of TV presenter-TV journalist at the Karpenko-Kary Institute in Kiev. Then very few people believed that I would do it. There were 60 people in place, and I - a guy from the village, without awards and diplomas. Yes, I myself at first did not really want to study at this department. But over time, the process of learning has liked: writing text, scripts, editing, performances.
Honored Artist Alexander Pavlovich Kochnev taught us to be spiritual people, to seek the truth. With him we performed the plays "In Search of Truth", "Under the Heavens". His words were remembered: "If there is a problem, rise above both in life and in creativity". I started writing poems from the fifth grade, and at the institute I passed through them my search for truth, myself. In the second year I started earning money, was shot in advertising on STB. On the fourth course I wanted to prove myself,
that I can do something, went to the casting for Alexander Tsikalo in his program, and I was noticed there, offered cooperation and a contract for five years. I was very happy, I started actively to act in different programs: "Good evening", "Big difference", "Super heroes", "This is Love", "Euro nerves", in the series "Taxi", "Pedan Pritula-show"; on different channels: Inter, 1 + 1, ICTV, Channel 1 (ORT, Russia), Channel Pyatnitsa (Russia).
When I entered the institute, I took a Bible with me, which I was afraid to read as a child. When asked the grandmother what kind of book it was, she answered that it was a Holy book, but it can not be read, because in the village one grandmother read and went insane. So I did not read, just opened it to read some lines, to know what is waiting for me today, rather treated her like a horoscope.
When I was in my fifth year, I decided to start studying the Bible. It was hard, much is not clear. But only six months after it was discovered, a friend invited me and Kirill Andreyev to a concert in the church. I was very surprised: "Is there a concert in the church? Something new ", and went. It was the charismatic church "New Generation". There for the first time I heard that the Bible can be spoken in plain language. At the end of the sermon, the pastor offered to repent. I see, no one's raising their hands, everyone is silent. And I picked it up. He left, repeated the prayer of repentance for the pastor. I tried to make everything sincerely for me.
In two months the Lord touched my heart, mind, with my Holy Spirit, I realized that Christ really died for me. He saved me from all sinful habits - I stopped smoking, drinking. God turned to me
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them
Ephesians 5:11
The notion has come that a person who believes in Jesus should not play characters that do not conform to the Christian norm of conduct, that God gives an understanding of good and evil in our lives. With this question I turned to the pastor, but he evaded the answer.
Together with Cyril, we began to seek answers to our questions. In Youtube, we found the sermons of Walter Weiss. We learned about the Adventists, about the Sabbath. The fear of God came that we are not in that church. They decided to show these sermons to the pastor, he answered: "I decided for a long time that Saturday is for Jews, and we live in the modern world. There are people in the church who gather on Fridays and Saturdays, but on Saturday they work. " And we realized that we are in Babylon, we need to get out of this church. On the Internet found that there is a Church of Adventists, there is a Temple in Podol, and the next Saturday I, Cyril, his future wife Svetlana and our friend Oksana went to the service. Unfortunately, Oksana left the world. In the church we were immediately noticed, sent to Pastor Valery Ryabom. Four months later, the three of us received baptism. At me this baptism became the third: the first - in the Orthodox church, the second - at charismatics, and now here. It was four years ago.
God gave me a job on the "Nadiya" TV channel. I left all my worldly programs, all my friends asked me not to "go crazy," because I was losing a well-paid job. They call me now. I'm with everyone going to contact and evangelize.
At the TV studio, at first I worked on the programs "The Power of One", "The Uneasy State", and then I was offered to be the director of the programs "Amazing Facts", "R-500", "Roghevi Okulyari", and others, and an actor in children's programs. It was something new, interesting.
In the program "Malyuvaki" appeared character Goshka. At first they thought that it was temporary, but the hero liked the hero, he was left behind. Now the scripts are written under the children's favorite characters.
I always had the desire to work with children. Before he came to church, he voiced cartoons. Already in the church he spent some time teaching at the Children's TV School. Working with children, I feel pleasure, because they are so curious, intelligent. In the "Children's TV School" showed the children videos "Malyuvaki" - it was their favorite pastime.
Me, as Goshka, first learns children. Often parents come up: "My child likes to watch your program so much, you are his favorite hero. May I take a picture with you?". Goshka love, he is the same as almost all children - he likes to play pranks, but he is kind, friendly.
There is no "starry", I am glad that there is contact with children. When new children-actors come, they call me Goshka first, but then they are treated like an actor, we are the authority for the Hive. Want to shoot on our television studio, many children and not from the church. Parents call, write to the queue. On the set, we always have a cheerful atmosphere, but this does not interfere with discipline, children always take their work responsibly. We were shooting in the Dolphinarium, in the Water Museum, in Kiev, in Bucha - everywhere we are received in a friendly way.
Now I'm the director of the programs "R-500", "So Chi іnakshe" (now I'm not directing it), scriptwriter and director of the program "Roghevi Okulyari". In plans and dreams I have to be a sponsor of children's and adult programs. This requires financial investments, and considerable. Therefore, I am looking for opportunities and a team of professionals for business growth and program development.
My parents were very worried when I started attending a charismatic church. Mom once came to the meeting, went out from there anxious and puzzled. Now calmed down, watching the broadcast of "Happy Saturday", which I'm leading. Parents no longer say that I betrayed faith. And the grandmother at a meeting necessarily puts in a pocket of a leaf where it is written Psalm 90. It is assured, that it is a prayer of its great-grandfather which is passed from generation to generation, and brings happiness.
When I was looking for God, I was afraid to open the Bible. Then I did not think that I would be a deacon in the church, a teacher of the Sabbath School. The Lord gave more than I could have expected. The Lord more and more joins my faith and life. God leads, I see His help.
Yuri Sosa
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