Eduard Kurat is a pastor at the Philadelphia Church in Ternopil, Ukraine. In 1999, he moved with his family from Donbas to Ternopil to do missionary work. He is a poet and bard, author of the collections On the Edge (2011) and He Who Travels in Darkness (2018). He feels pain for people who live and die without God’s love. He is married. Together with his wife Olena, they have raised three children.