[00:00:00] Alex, you clinically died and now you're helping change the lives of orphans in the Ukraine. Tell me what happened the day you died. I was driving a semi-truck regular day and I felt that uh I have shortness of breath. Uh I had this feeling for it was like for past like for for the last three days and then then uh at that day it was uh unbearable. So I called my wife and I told her I have um shortness of breath. I have a chest pain. So take me to the hospital. So she came pick me up and she rushed me to the hospital. When we came to the hospital uh went there checked me in asking me a questions laid me on the bed asked my wife what is the day and what is the time? And she goes, "Why are you asking me that?" She failed
[00:01:00] something. Uh I said, "Tell me what is the day, what is the time?" And she said, "November 5, 2025." And uh at that time it was uh 11:30 in the morning. Immediately when she said that 11:30 in the morning, I was gone. I was in the presence of Jesus and u it really shook me. It shocked me because um immediately I was in the presence of Jesus. I was not traveling through any tunnels. I was not going through any spaces. Uh none of that. like immediately I was in the presence and uh everything what I saw that it shocked me. It's just like you standing before the throne of God, you standing before
[00:01:57] the Jesus and he is the king. I see all these um uh massive columns, gold, pearl, mix columns and I see all the stairs and I was standing right before the uh uh throne of God and uh angels singing and I see all the you know singing and angels and I see two angels on the right side of me. It was a two golden angels like they look like a human. They had no wings and they were bowing before the Lord. And later I found that was my two angels that that follow me or been dispatched to my life. Let's let's put it this way to help me. So because if we read in the Bible we know that there is angels they they are assigned to our life to help us to those who uh
[00:02:59] will inherit the kingdom the eternity. So I knew that was my two angels standing there but I I I was caught up in worship. I was caught up in worship. I start immediately worshiping the King of Kings, Jesus. The songs are they're they the songs there they're not like uh uh uh have uh this beginning and an end. It's not like that. They're like a river, like a streams. They flow and they flow and actually you can see the sound. I don't know how to explain that. You can see the sound if you see the song and it goes like a like a little streams and you getting caught up with that and also in the same feeling you you feel like this song is coming coming
[00:03:57] out of your belly like this. So it was a very uh emotional experience and um at one point uh and let let me uh let me go back uh I I'm trying to say everything what of my experience I did not feel that I died I I've been so alive. I was so alive. I had this feeling that I'm alive. I did not have the feeling that I died. Another thing, I did not have this feeling that I died young. I was not sorry for myself, you know. Oh, I'm only 49. Uh I did not have this feeling. I was not uh thinking about my children. I
[00:04:56] love my children. I love my wife. I love my children but I was not thinking about them. I was so caught up in the presence of Jesus. I was so in the presence there. I was not thinking about my uh earthly life at all. So uh when I was standing there uh Jesus asked me if I want to come into the glory or I want to be on uh if I want to go back to the earth and I had this understanding if I tell him that I want to come into the he will allow me he will grant me access and I will not lose anything.
[00:05:45] This is the most uh beautiful and the most uh place that you can be to be there with Jesus. And uh when I you whatever you have in your life, I tell people whatever you have, it doesn't matter how much it cost you. The best thing that you can do for yourself is to be there with Jesus. A lot of people they spend everything, all their energy, they spend their all finances, resources and they invest into this earthly life. But if you if you read the one of the parables where Jesus says to the rich man, you're a fool. Why Jesus said you are fool? Not because
[00:06:44] he he was rich because he did magic. He was not thinking about his soul. So we have this opportunity on this earth to think about our soul about their eternity. where we going to spend eternity. It is so important. And uh Jesus when we think about the eternity here on this earth, Jesus will say you are blessed and faithful servant. But I believe there will be a people that will not make it there. And I it is it is sad to say that. So for us and I tell everybody do everything to end up there. Do everything to be in the kingdom of God. When I was standing in the presence of Jesus,
[00:07:41] I was uh another thing Jesus told me while while I was actually while I was thinking what can I do for you Jesus? I had this understanding that he is the king. I had this understanding he created universe. I had this understand deep understanding that everything from him to him and for him. So everything in our life revolves about Jesus not about us. Everything been created by him and everything will be returned to him. While I was thinking that, standing in the presence of God, Jesus told me that I am the king who loves to reign and I love to expand my kingdom and no one can tell me what to do.
[00:08:42] So he is the king and in the same time I had this what can I do for you Jesus? And I told him, "Let me go back and let me expand your kingdom." Because I knew that one day I will come back in the presence of Jesus and that's it. That's where I'm going to spend eternity. But um I want to do something nice, something that the king wants to do. And he allowed me to go back. I said let me go back. I will make uh one thing that uh while I was standing in the presence of Jesus, I had this feeling you cannot boast or you cannot say I'm good at this
[00:09:43] because or gifts talents that you have. You cannot boast about anything because everything came from him. the gifts, talents, uh everything what you have even finance everything what you have it came by mercy into your life and you are a steward of it either that uh that's the gifts of the spirit prophecy healing you cannot tell him oh lord I healed a lot of people I prophesied that that give gift came from him it's not yours and it will be returned to him. You cannot uh say I'm this talented, I'm a musician, I'm a artist. That gift was given to you that you glorify his name. A lot of people they glorify
[00:10:42] sadly to say they glorify their name. They trying to praise their name and they making fame for and making names for they for themselves. not about Jesus. So everything what you have in your life, it must be around Jesus and that thing will count and this only will count. Everything what we do in our life must be revolved about his will. What he wants you to do. What he wants you to do. So when he allowed me to go back, I remember I came back. I saw myself from the top and immediately I came into my body and uh I saw the doctors tried to revive me. So I was I start physically singing.
[00:11:43] So when I came into the body I started physically singing because I had this understanding. I mean not understanding I had this um uh I still was in the presence of Jesus. I saw what was happening in heaven. My spiritual eyes were open and I saw also everything what was happening here. So that doctors were trying to revive me and I came to life immediately. I started singing and kept worshipping with angels. So the doctors stopped. They they're like, "Whoa, was this guy's this guy came back to life immediately sinning. It was kind of funny. I'm laughing now, but it wasn't funny then."
[00:12:27] Uh, and I start prophesying to those doctors, those who were trying to help me, they all stopped because that whole room was filled with the God's glory. That room was filled with God's glory. And uh while I was doing that, it was it was for about 10 minutes while I was in this transition singing and then then I pass out again, went into the coma again. So the doctors tried to revive me. They tried to find what happened to me and uh that's where they saw that I had a two major blood clots in my chest. And uh uh so this is this is what caused and this is what happened to me.
[00:13:19] So and uh when I came back uh um from the hospital and this is another testimony the doctors told me it will take me 6 months to recover. they want to perform surgery. But I had this testimony in my uh in my spirit that I'm healed. So one month later uh I was already walking. So I had this testimony. I'm healed. So I was taking healing steps little by little, little by little. When I came out of the hospital, I was able to make only like five steps and I was so tired. So, and I took that as the grace you know that uh sometimes healing comes uh immediately but many times healing comes by the symptoms.
[00:14:16] Sometimes healing comes like a uh you can feel you feel a little bit better. I take this as a healing because I take this as the faith because uh everybody knows you you start sometimes sickness comes like a you feel start feeling bad and you start thinking oh maybe this and that and devil using it and uh people think oh that you know this is cancer or something's a horrible illness so uh many times holy spirit will touch you and you will feel better and people just uh they ignore those feelings they ignore uh symptoms of healing. So there is a symptoms of healing and there is a sympto symptoms of sickness and we must take them. If you just have
[00:15:16] some if you feel like like the Lord touch you, you may not have all the pain gone but little bit. So what happened in my life I was able to make only five steps. The next day I was able to make a little bit more a little bit more but I was taking them. I said I refused to lay in a bed. I refused you know uh to to be like a disabled person. So in one month later I was able to walk to walk. Then two months later I was like already going into the gym normally walking normally living my life. So I believe I and I I thank God for the grace that he gave me to restore me quickly.
[00:16:08] So this is this is my testimony about this what what I experienced. Tell me more about what it's like in that throne room of heaven. What you saw, but how big was this place you was and what did it look like? Yeah, the the throne itself was massive. Uh the throne itself was like you standing that that was that's what I felt. It was so huge when you stand on the at the end of the air uh airplane wave where they land and where they you know take off. That was so the uh the this throne was so big like this. And when I was standing, I was standing before the throne. I was not on the throne. I was standing before the throne. And the steps were to my head
[00:17:06] like this. So I was watching uh looking at uh the throne and Jesus. I was not seeing Jesus like like this in in his face. I saw that Jesus was sitting on his uh it's like a sitting place. It's like a where he was sitting and he was he was sitting far away but when he was talking to me and telling me I felt like in my ear right here. So he is the king was sitting there on the throne and uh that's where I see all the worship angels. Some people asking me, tell me how the heaven is in one word. I say, well, it's kind of hard to ex to tell in one word, but I'll say joy.
[00:18:04] It's a joy. Everything is joy there. Worship. So I tell a lot of people also, if you are planning to end up in heaven, start worshiping Jesus now. That's where you need to learn to worship him. And will you start worshiping your king now here? Because you will be singing there. You will be worshiping there. Jesus. Got it. And what would you say in terms of what time was like in this place, you know, in the throne room that you you went to? A lot of people say it's different in terms of eternity in time. What did you experience? I was not thinking about time.
[00:18:52] I was not thinking about time at all. This was my shirt experience before the throne of God. But uh I was not thinking about the time and uh some people ask me did Jesus ask you to or tell you that he's coming back or no? I had I did not have this conversation. This is only the message that that I have that Jesus is the king. This is only thing that uh uh revealed to me. He revealed to me as the king and he loves to reign and I love to he loves to expand his kingdom. So he told me that only I'm sure that's what Bible says he is coming back but he told me that he is the king and I believe this is the mission that he wants me to do that's why he revealed
[00:19:51] himself to me as the king and he loves to expand his kingdom because it is so precious for him and this is that's his desire that will no one will be left alone or left out. He wants to stretch his kingdom to each person and he wants he wants to invite every person into his kingdom. A lot of people what's so sad a lot of people think about the kingdom that the kingdom is kingdom of god is some sometimes in the future futuristic but the kingdom of god is now. A lot of people think that the kingdom of God somewhere far away. Let's say when they get to in the heaven.
[00:20:39] No, the kingdom already here. Jesus told to his disciples to preach the gospel and tell them that the kingdom has come. So the kingdom has come. So we must understand that the kingdom is not the place or the country somewhere but the kingdom of God is the rulership of the king. So that's why Jesus said that the kingdom of God in you and Apostle Paul explained the kingdom of God is peace, righteousness and joy in the Holy Spirit. When you invite Jesus into your life, when you invite the Holy Spirit in your life and these three things start manifesting righteousness, peace and joy and it's growing in you, then it's overflowing through you and with the joy and the
[00:21:37] peace and righteous you start touching other people and that's how it manifested the kingdom. So when I pray and I minister to people, I always have this in my ear, it's like ringing in me when I pre praying for healing that I am Jesus. I am the king who wants to expand my kingdom and I have this uh and I'm uh it's like assurance in me uh that that's what he wants me to do. And I've seen many times that the healing power, deliverance power of Jesus manifested through me to other people because uh there is no po uh there is no joy for Jesus when you are suffering. He's suffering with you. whatever sickness you're going, whatever trouble you're going, uh he your his heart with you and he wants to stretch his help, his and uh
[00:22:40] help you in your time of need. I'm curious to know what you would say to somebody who's a seeker, who maybe not a believer right now, but is open. And if you're open to it, Alex, say a little prayer and lead us through that based on what you think Jesus would want them to hear. I'll tell uh people uh how do you enter into the Somebody asked me how do you enter into the kingdom? So number one is repent because that's this is what Jesus uh said repent because the kingdom of God at hand. So the repentance is the key to enter into the kingdom. Number two uh you must be born of the spirit. The Holy Spirit must touch you and or that you be born from above. Why we say you
[00:23:43] born from above? That the Holy Spirit comes into your life. And this is so um for me uh this is so um precious that you are not able to come into his kingdom by yourself. It doesn't matter how you want it. He invites you. He's personally touching you. And I I can share my testimony about how I came to Christ. But I before I do that, I would like to ask every person who's watching me right now, if you never invited Jesus into your life and you want to be in his kingdom, all you have to do is just to ask him and invite just say with me, Jesus, I come before you and I'm asking you forgive all my sins.
[00:24:43] Take me into your kingdom. Be my Lord and Savior. I renounce sin and I renounce Satan and I renounce this world. I want to be your child. Thank you for your precious blood that you paid for me. Wash me in your blood. Be my Lord and Savior. Amen. When you pray this prayer sincerely and you invited Jesus into your life, the Holy Spirit will start work in your life. You are you are becoming a child of God. You are his servant and that's where you can start growing relationship with him. So I recommend if you never went to the church, you never know uh how to what to do right now is simply to grow in Jesus
[00:25:42] to be a follower. Be connected to the church. Be connected to place where you can start growing spiritually where you can study the word where you can grow in faith. It is so important for you. when I was um in Ukraine. I grew up in Ukraine and um I remember when I was 10 years old. I grew up in a Christian family. My whole family is Christian and my generation is ministers. Everybody is was in a ministry and uh our lineage, our family suffered a lot because of the communist prosecution. Some of my family been torture members, some of some of my family members been tortured, killed, sitting in in jails, in prisons because
[00:26:42] just simply because of their faith. So this is the lineage that I came from. Uh, I remember my grandmother. They took her kids and they released them on the on the street. That was my grandfather and his uh little brother and they put her in a prison because she didn't want to renounce Jesus. Uh but God supernaturally took care of my grandfather while he was a child. He was on the street and he was sharing me this uh stories. So this is the lineage that I came from. Even though I grew up in a Christian family, I did not have encounter with with Jesus. I was not born again. I was only 10 years old. I was listening. I was you know parents would take me to the church. I was
[00:27:41] participating in the church but I never had this encounter with Jesus. And I remember one day min one of the ministers came minister came to my house and we were kids playing around and then I don't know what he was doing he left and 30 minutes later he comes back and tell my mom when he was standing on the train station the holy spirit directed him to go back and he didn't know why. So he sat there waiting for other instruction from the Lord. Why he came and he started talking to us to children when we were running around. I was like only 10 years old at that time. It was only uh it was five of us in the family.
[00:28:32] So he start sharing gospel to me and my sister and at that time like I said I grew up in a Christian family but nobody personally like this on oneonone shared the gospel to me. Nobody shared the love of Jesus to me. And when he start sharing that I had in this in same way I had the conviction I felt over overwhelming love of God. I started crying and when I was crying I felt good that I was crying. The Holy Spirit came on me and Holy Spirit came on my sister and we just kneel there and worshiping and praying before the Lord. That's where the Holy Spirit touched me. And since that moment, I've been looking for the touch of the Holy Spirit again and
[00:29:33] again. It's like when you get to the prayer, the Holy Spirit touch you, you get satisfied and you are hungry again. You want to do it again. You want to run into the presence of again and just make you uh that you are always hungry. You always look for that presence. And is it is so important that you getting touched by the Holy Spirit because when the Holy Spirit touch you, he makes you no good for this earth. He's making no good for this world by it's like a stamp over your life. Because there was a time in my life where I back sleep when I was uh doing wrong thing. I had a wrong friends partying and doing things. It was the time yeah when I left the Lord but I felt that oh I don't I don't belong there and God by his mercy he brought me back into his kingdom and uh that's
[00:30:33] where I'm like serving and telling other people I was on the way to hell also even though I was uh born again I was uh uh uh knew uh knew God you know I knew his presence but I was doing wrong things and by his mercy God returned me back. I was standing I I'll tell you shortly that my testimony when I was um uh that's how God brought me back. I was at that time I was 24 years old and uh I was living my life partying and everything. I was driving a car but the here's the church been praying for me. I had a group of people been interceding before the Lord specifically for me. And I remember I bought that very nice car.
[00:31:28] I was driving it and police pulled me over and they told me that this car is stolen. So they took all my belongings and they just left me in the on the on the on the road and they impounded my car. So I called to that prayer meeting and I told them if they will return my car, I promise that I will come to the prayer meeting. So I made a I made a vow. I made a promise that one of the reasons I I didn't want to come back come to the prayer meeting because I knew if I come to the prayer meeting the Holy Spirit will arrest me. the Holy Spirit will fall on me and I will be staying there. That's it. I was uh refusing that. I was I didn't want to do that. I knew the love of God, but I was um rebellious. Let's put it this way.
[00:32:31] And you know what happened? In three days, I returned my car and I kept my word. On the way back to the prayer meeting, I fell asleep behind the wheel. And uh when I fell asleep behind the wheel a wheel, I was I saw myself that I was standing before the gates of hell. I got so scared and I immediately I woke up. I pressed on the brakes. My car car slid start spinning and I parked on the side of the road. I did not damage my car but I was like I had this cold sweat and I said Lord let me make it to the prayer meeting. I uh I will serve you. I will I promise you that I'll I'm coming back.
[00:33:31] That's it. So when I came to the prayer meeting, the Holy Spirit fell on me. His love you cannot resist. He his love and his mercy came on me and uh since that time I said no Lord I don't belong to this world. I belong to you and I'm following Jesus. And I wish every person who is watching us, I wish every person that that you receive this touch from this Holy Spirit that Holy Spirit will manifest his love and goodness into your life love. Like I said, when the Holy Spirit touch you, you become no good to this world.
[00:34:18] That touch will deliver you from sin. It's like a seal by God on your life. It It gives you desire to follow him. It gives you desire to pursue God in your life. So I wish everybody can receive this. This is the mercy and this is it really humbles my heart when uh when I think I was not thinking about God. I was not thinking about Jesus. I was a child playing around 10 year old. But God was thinking about me. He made this man to come back into our house. He allowed this man to minister to us. So, Holy Spirit was thinking to me about
[00:35:17] me and this this is really humbles me. I believe a lot of people watching us right now and you getting touched by the Holy Spirit. This is the Holy Spirit touching you right now. Do not ignore it. Allow him. Start fellowshipping with him. If you have this uh prayer coming out. Let the prayer come out. If you have this worship coming out of you, let the worship come out come out of you. Some people think how does the Holy Spirit touch you? This is what he he's uh quickens you. He allows the prayer come out of you. He's that's by him we worship. Without we him we cannot worship. We cannot pray. I have no words to pray. But when he comes, he's you have this overwhelming desire to pray.
[00:36:16] You have an overwhelming desire to worship and you have this words coming out of you. Allow him to do that. Sometimes you have tears coming out. So allow him to do that. That's the mercy of God over your life. So we cannot ignore that. Allow him to do that. He is with you. You know one thing I share and I tell everybody that it came to my understanding that the kingdom of God is not far away. It's not somewhere in heaven. Jesus said the kingdom of God at hand. I want to ask every person who is watching us, if you stretch your hand and you see where your hand, that's where they came.
[00:37:04] Cloud of witnesses, angels, everything that you need at your hand. All your help, everything right there. When I had this understanding, I know whatever help I need, I stopped feeling feeling I'm alone. No, I have a angels surrounding me. I have cloud of witnesses surrounding me. I have heaven surrounding me everywhere I go. I'm a representative of his kingdom. And I wish everybody can understand this. So when you have this understanding, you will not be uh feeling lonely or depression. There is a joy right there, right here, right here at your
[00:38:06] hand. The kingdom of God. So we must accept this and allow our mind to um live in it. The kingdom of God is here. So, if anyone's been in a place of anxiety, trauma, or fear, or they've been hurt by professing Christians, or they've been hurt by something um by the church, or something's happened in their lives, and they're just feeling so far away from the presence you're describing in the experience you're describing. What would you say to that person in terms of how they can invite the Holy Spirit into their life or as you said allow them in allow the Holy Spirit into their lives?
[00:38:54] Yeah. the um if we if when we read um uh messages where the apostle Paul in every message he was sharing about uh specifically at the end of the messages he was saying this thing the grace of God with us and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit with us and with saints. So number one, the Holy Spirit is not only sitting in the church. He's fellowshipping with you in everyday life. He wants to fellowship with you. And that's where I was asking the Lord personally. I start asking Lord teach me how to fellowship with you in everyday life. And he is the one who will guide
[00:39:54] you because a lot of people they hear God differently. And God also God will teach you uh he he speaks differently every day. Let's say today when I'm reading Bible he talks to me about the through the Bible but to tomorrow he may not talk to me even though I'm reading but it's not really touching me. You know, I'm reading and I'm and and we supposed to read the Bible. But when I start praying, that's where the Holy Spirit start give me understanding and start fellowshipping with me. So the next day, I I receive the word in the prayer. On the third day, it may not happen that, but I still pray. I still read Bible. I still my I still have my devotional time with the Lord. And the Lord can speak through the prophet. So he may speak through the prophet or through other person. So we need to be
[00:40:54] open that that God will fellowship with us in different um uh differently. Another thing I would like to say remember the prayer of the of um when Jesus say our father who are in heaven heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. So the first words he said our father he specifically pointed to the family. He did not say pray this prayer my father. He yes he is your father but he say our father. Why? Because we are the family. We are the body. So
[00:41:52] we m we cannot deny it. So the church is the family. I understand that there there is a lot of people getting hurt by the church. There is a lot of not perfect people. If the church were perfect, they would be in heaven. But the church on this earth is not perfect. A lot of people they come from this world, they have their own pains. They have their own problems and they come to the church and sometimes with their own personal problems they hurt other people. Yes, it is sad. But we cannot deny because of somebody's uh wrongdoings. We cannot deny Jesus.
[00:42:38] We cannot deny his grace. So it is so important that we have a fellowship with Jesus and don't allow your faith to go down because somebody because what they doing in there so have fellowship your personal relationship with Jesus and uh I say ask the Lord if he can guide you lead you to the place where you can serve maybe other church or other place where he wants you to beep. So the church and the body of Christ is so important because this is that's where the Jesus said in his foundational I said that prayer the our father that's the foundational prayer.
[00:43:28] So we must understand we are family. Aaron, you are my family. We are brothers because our father in heaven and every person who accepted Jesus, we are family. We cannot deny. We cannot deny it. And this is so blessing. This is so blessing uh to understand that we are huge. We're a big family and one day we're get going to be caught up in heaven and rejoicing. So I tell everybody that uh have this understanding and learn to have fellowship with uh Holy Spirit in everyday life. Thank you. I loved I loved hearing your story on God's Voice Today with Vlad and specifically the work you're doing in
[00:44:26] the Ukraine. Obviously, you grew up there. The war started in 2022 and tell us about the your experience of, you know, going to the Ukraine after the war and what's been happening on the ground and then how you and your team are helping. Yeah. Um, I never thought that I will help in Ukraine. Uh, in my wife in 2016, she had a prophetic word that we will have a um charity foundation. And I said, Charity foundation? It's like it did not ring at all in my It's like I didn't know what to do or how do it. And uh I did not have desires at that time. I was doing other things.
[00:45:19] But um when the war came in 2022, that's where the Holy Spirit led me to start uh helping people who suffer from war in Ukraine. So we we start sending a lot of help uh supplies uh humanitarian aid into Ukraine and helping people who's been affected by the war, refugees and everything, sending water supplies, water filters, sending um um medical equipment uh and helping people who is going through this hard times. So we we trying we are doing our best to touch them and help them there. Also when we go into Ukraine this is what when I went to Ukraine that's where I
[00:46:17] saw also there was a lot of children being affected by this a lot of orphan children they lost their parents and uh this is overwhelming when you see a child 7 year old and uh have gray hair because what They saw they saw their parents being raped by Russian soldiers. They've been killed. Uh fathers been killed before the eyes of children. Um they see that the h houses blew up. Um some of the children lose their speech ability to speak. So they have this trauma. And what we do is we're trying to bring what we invite psychiatrists, therapists
[00:47:17] where we work with children. We do games, activities, gifts. We're trying to bring the ch kids from the this trauma trauma. And sometimes it takes 3 days, sometimes it takes 7 days, sometime longer that the child start opening up and start talking to bring them out of the stage because the we tried to take them out of the country in a safe zone like into United States. We cannot do that these children under the strict government uh protection in Ukraine. So what we do is we we go and minister there. We try to stay on the west of Ukraine less threats there. So we go in a camps we we go minister to to those children there. So this is what we do is I know a
[00:48:18] lot of Yeah. I know a lot of people what they doing is they helping uh soldiers on the front line like raising money for uh for drones and weapons and uh and uh all the military gear uh whatever they doing that I'm not doing that we are min ministering more to civilians we minister to that's what God put in on my heart to minister to children to in a search of civilians who has been affected on the war. How many children would you say estimated have been affected in this way where they're they're orphans or they don't have any people to look after them and they're under the protection of the the government at this point?
[00:49:07] Thousands. I can I don't have a number because the numbers have been growing but this is thousands thousands of children that they that lost their lives. I mean I mean they they lost their parents. What do you see they need most when you and your team go over there? Obviously the initial thing is just coming back into themselves by the sound of it and being comforted in a way so they can talk for one but from there kind of what what is needed to really bring these children obviously there's therapy there's there's there's things like that but you know what's the a plan would you say to bring these children out of that place you know long term so they can be a happy and healthier human and you know um growing individual
[00:50:05] Yeah. Uh number one first with we need to bring the comfort to them right now. So that's the first thing and uh another thing uh you cannot return parents to them. So in a uh understand where they at right now, help them to supply whatever like clothing, food they need and bring them education. Make the en this is my desire to build the orphanage there to um make the environment where the child can grow. Even if it does not have a parent, they can grow up in a environment where they will have a education. So will they will not stay on the street because uh a lot of the children if they will be under government they will end up on the street
[00:51:05] and uh give them hope and I believe this is father's heart. our true father who are in heaven. That's his desire to touch these children and to help them build the environment for them where they have opportunity to uh study, learn, take education, where they can grow up because they suffered enough. They suffered enough. It's just the atrocities they must have experienced go beyond anything in of a lot of us in the west can even fathom. These children and what they've seen is nobody should ever see that. Um and the fact that their hair are going gray at seven years old, 8 years old, um they can't talk. You know, many of them because of these things they've seen. They need you know a lot of love and a lot of support to get them back to themselves and then grow into a you know a strong happy
[00:52:04] person. And so, you know, your your organization is called uh mercy chararities.net, and I'd love for anybody who wants to support you, Alex, to just check out the link in the description and and go there and find the great work you're doing uh and contribute in any way you can, whether that's support with um you know, time or helping um you know, with uh anything at all the the the the organization needs, time, money, talent. Uh, Alex, is there anything specifically that you really need right now to go and help more of these children? U, we are raising funds right now to go in and do another event. It's like we do, this is this is like a camps that we do for uh children. Uh, so we do activity uh we invite like clowns, we we do gifts for them, we do like all kind of games for them. This is the event we
[00:53:04] are planning to do. So we're raising funds for this right now. Um and um uh for children that been affected by war uh we bring them hope. We bring them whatever we can and you guys can reach us uh a lot of people they can send us send me email mymercyplace@gmail.com they can reach me a lot of people people been reaching I have people who been uh offering their help teachers this we need teachers we need uh people who in media we need people who help with uh uh finances is uh I need all kind I need all help. I had this uh for for example I had this understanding I wanted to build I want to help people but I had no
[00:54:02] resources at all. All I did I said Jesus here I am and if you want me to do it I will do that and I see that resource are coming in because this is God's heart. God given us ability. We've been sending a water filters by thousands. I had no God giving me a connections. We've been sending uh water uh like a filters like a huge buckets like but there are filters into the hospital Ukrainian hospitals and God gave me this connections. I said, "I don't know where those factories. I don't know any of that, but God give me this connections." I called it that's divine connections.
[00:54:52] I had the one lady and this is my testimony. I had a lady last week. I said, "Lord, if you want us to build a orphanage in Ukraine, I'm willing to do this, but I have no funds. I have no money." I had a lady, she sent me a message, she that she's willing to donate her land in Ukraine and that land is designed I mean that that's a perfect place for for the orphanage. So and I said I believe Lord in the next step that he will give us funds to put the building there. So step by step I'm doing that little by little. I wish I had all the finances resources where I can do it but I'm doing from everything from scratch. I'm doing everything by myself. So if uh someone watching and you believe you can do uh something like uh even advertising
[00:55:53] even uh something with a website or uh finances $5, $10, $1. I thank everybody it will make a difference. it will make a difference because everywhere when we go into the uh uh Ukraine like for example the uh trip that I'm doing right now into Ukraine it will cost me around $50,000 this that's how much it will cost to to organize the team of people you have to pay them uh do all the activities do little bit gifts for for the children and all that it cost money. It cost money. I cannot do this on my own but I see God's hand on this. He provides everything because that's his desire.
[00:56:48] Because that's his desire. So some people say you know I cannot help in any way but you work and you contribute maybe those $20 you're participating and you with this you advancing God's kingdom what God wants you to to do remember when Jesus said if Jesus said if you will give cup of water in my name it matter It counts. So if you give a cup of water to that child to that minister to go minister to that child, it matters and you will reap the harvest in your life. That's what Jesus every said. Every little thing matters in his kingdom. Even the cup of water.
[00:57:44] So this is what we do in terms of the trips you do over to the Ukraine. So tell us about some of the experiences you've had on the ground with these children. Um you know or you know reports from your team of how their lives have changed since the work that your team are doing on the ground. It really touched my heart. Um I was not careful the first one when we went in and there was a child it was a girl and she start uh coming to me and she she start she always been around me uh her name is Vera Faith and uh she she was kind of connected to me and I was not careful at that time and I said you want to go back with me to Ukra to United States. I want to feel her that uh you know I want to you know
[00:58:48] I want her to feel something you know good and uh she said yes I'm going with you and what when uh she said that I felt like man what did I do she was so connected to me that child she wants the she want a father. Uh I felt so bad that I cannot take her there. It was heartbreaking. I was crying. I was crying that there was a lot of children. They want them. They want a home. They want a place where they can stay. And uh it's this is heartbreaking for me where in the beginning I was not like I said I was not careful. I was I didn't know that it will affect that child and when I left she was crying. She she even said I will go in a suitcase with you.
[00:59:48] Uh it was it was a heartbreaking but um what we do is when we organize that it takes time. A lot of children they are closed. They're so close you cannot even approach them. So it really takes time and effort to do that and uh professionals we don't do this just uh by ourselves. We invite professionals who can you know they can uh work with their children little by little little by little and then they open up and this is where you know the the funds that you're raising to go over there that you know cost 50,000 to go over to do these trips and to support the this team you know these team team of therapists entertainers and you know yes the support network so I suppose that's where a lot of the you know the
[01:00:47] funds go to is the team that are on the ground long term to because it's a full-time endeavor to be able to bring these children back to themselves um and you know do it in a way which you know is you know built on strong foundations I take it yeah we had a uh we did only uh we we did children um one time we organized event where we did the um like a u two week trip into United States. We've been allowed to do that uh to bring children into this country and uh you will see in the behavior of a child even the child came into United peaceful here came into United States sometimes where the loud bang or loud noise
[01:01:46] the child start uh shaking or crying uncontrollably because they're they're this is what they experience after war and it takes time for them to or any loud vo uh noise. They think that's the explosion and it's really affected. So they sometimes they're they start crying they they or shaking even in we see that when we when we bring them into the uh United States imagine what they're experiencing back in uh Ukraine where they have everyday bombings and uh loud explosions happening. So you're really taking a toll on them. Yeah, I can only imagine the the shock of this, you know, the PTSD of the loud noises and what that triggers in them.
[01:02:44] It just brings that whole situation back into the reality. So, yes. So, Alex, it really it really takes time. It really takes time. Sometimes, like I said, it take uh three days, one week. Sometimes it take longer. Sometimes it'll take a lot longer for they for them to come out of that shock, out of that trauma. No child ever needs to experience what they've experienced in any way, shape, or form. And that's what really touched my heart when I watched the interview um with with Vlad on God's Voice Today. And that's why I wanted to reach out to you. So, I want you to, you know, before we close out, I want you to, you know, tell people that are listening today specifically, uh, where they can find you and what would be most helpful for you.
[01:03:35] Yes. Well, they can find me at, uh, uh, website MercyCharities.net or they can uh write email mymercyplace@gmail.com and uh if they have a help or they can uh help in any way they can do that and um I ask everybody uh participate if you cannot help in any way pray that this war to be over. If you are a businessman, help. If you are a politician, help in any way uh to finish this horrible war. It should not be like that. So we need to uh put all our effort to finish this and everybody from different sides, we need to put all our
[01:04:35] effort to finish this. And we cannot play politicians. We cannot play these games. This is horrible thing that is happening now. So we need to pray if you if you stand before the Lord, ask the Lord to move and to finish this what it's happening now. If anyone's got any inclination to help, if they've got people that they know that might be able to support, any any resources of uh time or talents, if you've got the skills to help with website, any technical ability, any marketing or sales abilities, if you don't have money to contribute in, you know, could be a dollar, could be a $100, could be a thousand, could be 10,000, whatever you feel called to do.
[01:05:19] Um, I ask you to share this uh this video with others who who might be able to support as well so we can get Alex the most help that he needs to be able to support these these children over there in the Ukraine who have been through uh literal hell on earth and they need love and support to grow into happy, healthy um children. So, Alex, thank you very much for coming on and uh thanks for the work you're doing over there. God bless you. God bless you