Alexander Kalinsky was born into a non-Christian military family and grew up in Germany. In 1990, he married a beautiful girl named Valentina. He became a believer in 1994. Two years later, he enrolled at Donetsk Christian University and, together with like-minded people, started a new church called “Source of Life” in the city of Zdolbuniv, where he still serves as a pastor. In 1998, he enrolled in the Ukrainian Theological Seminary. A year later, he was ordained as a pastor. In 2007, he graduated from the School of Biblical Preaching, and later from the Coram Deo Institute. He is married and has six children and ten grandchildren.