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Vymogy Chasu: Release 2

About the book

The second issue of the almanac 'Demands of Time' continues to collect the finest examples of spiritual poetry and prose by Ukrainian authors. In this issue, voices of those who experience war with faith in their hearts resonate — those who seek forgiveness and reconciliation, who find strength in God's Word.

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Authors

Ihor Bandura

Pastor, Deputy Chairman of the All-Ukrainian Union of Evangelical Christian-Baptist Churches.

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Olga Veligan

Olga Veligan graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Lviv National University named after I. Franko. She is the author of poetry collections "A Moment Like Eternity," "Golgotha," "Communion," "Insight," and the book "Heaven," which includes poems from different years in Russian and Ukrainian languages. These are reflections on the meaning of life, on the greatness and mercy of our Lord, on eternity in Heaven, which the Savior gives to all who have loved Him. Until 2000, together with her daughter Irina, she hosted the TV program "In the Beginning Was the Word," and was a senior editor of Ternopil State Television.

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Yaroslav Velyhan

Yaroslav Velyhan was born on July 28, 1935, in Buchach district, Ternopil Oblast.

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Lidiya Vudvud

Lidiya Vudvud was born in Volyn. She has been passionate about poetry since childhood. After graduating from Lutsk Pedagogical College and Vinnytsia Pedagogical Institute, she worked for some time at the mentioned institute in the Department of Pedagogy. Having come to know God, she became a member of the Christian Faith Evangelical Church.

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Oleksandr Vialov

Oleksandr Vialov was born and lives in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Married. Together with his wife Liya, they raise three children. He graduated from Kharkiv National University, Faculty of Physics. Since 1996 he has been working as a physics teacher. Since 2000 he has been the founder and director of the Kharkiv Christian Lyceum 'Beginning of Wisdom'.

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Stefaniya Hoshovska

Stefaniya Hoshovska was born on March 31, 1960, in the village of Budaniv, Terebovlya district, Ternopil Oblast. In 1977, after finishing school, she entered the Lviv Cultural and Educational College, where she obtained a director's education.

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Viktoriya Domanska-Fesenko

Viktoriya Domanska-Fesenko was born on November 16, 1972, in Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine, in a Christian large family. She graduated from school with honors and entered medical college. After college, she devoted eight years to studying theology at biblical schools in Saint Petersburg and Odesa. She began writing poetry at age nine.

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Aleksandr Kalynskyi

Alexander Kalinsky was born in a non-Christian military family and grew up in Germany. He came to faith in 1994. Two years later, he entered Donetsk Christian University and started a new church "Dzherelo zhyttya," in Russian "Source of Life," in the city of Zdolbunov, where he serves as a pastor to this day. In 1998, he entered the Ukrainian Theological Seminary. A year later, he was ordained for pastoral ministry. In 2007, he graduated from the School of Biblical Preaching, later the International Institute of Soul Care "Coram Deo." Married. Father of six children and grandfather of ten grandchildren.

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Vasyl Martyniuk

Vasyl Martyniuk was born on January 16, 1966, in the village of Karpylivtsi, Rivne Oblast. He received his higher education at Volyn State University, Faculty of Philology. He completed graduate studies and defended his doctoral dissertation at the same university. Since 1999 he has been a literary editor of the Blahovisnyk magazine.

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Fedir Urdiuk

Fedir Urdiuk was born on March 26, 1935, in the village of Skulyny, Kovel district, Volyn, in a large peasant family. His father and mother were Baptist Christians. He graduated from Lutsk Pedagogical College, music department.

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Anatoliy Hashchuk

Anatoliy Hashchuk was born on May 24, 1953, in the village of Velyka Mochulka, Vinnytsia Oblast, in a large believing family. He studied at the Kyiv State Institute of Culture. He worked as a teacher of decorative and artistic design at the Kyiv College of Culture. He became passionate about poetry while still in school. At Pilgrim Church in Spokane, Washington, he leads the Ukrainian Harp folk instrument ensemble.

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Mykhailo Cherenkov

Mykhailo Cherenkov is a preacher, teacher, pastor of the Revival Church in Vancouver, Washington. Author of books and numerous articles on the social position of evangelical churches and current issues of Christianity.

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Oleksandr Chmut

Oleksandr Chmut is the head of Trans World Radio in Ukraine. He was born and raised in a deeply believing family in the town of Medzhybizh, Khmelnytskyi Oblast. From childhood, he constantly listened to Christian radio programs from Monte Carlo and Ecuador.

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Svitlana Shandruk

Svitlana Shandruk was born on September 26, 1954, in the city of Buchach, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. After finishing school, she studied at Ternopil Medical Institute. After receiving her diploma, she worked at the same institute as a lecturer, and later as a doctor at the regional tuberculosis dispensary.

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