BARRY ALSOBROOK
Proverbs 7:2 (NLT) “Obey my commands and live! Guard my instructions as you guard your own eyes.”
Barry has been a friend of WCNO for a number of years now. We were there when TakenTV began its start-up journey.
TAKENTV (The Active Kingdom Entertainment Network) is local to us in the Treasure Coast – a Florida-based streaming platform and TV network dedicated to producing and broadcasting Christ-centered programming. It offers a variety of faith-based movies, family shows, “Kingdom Kidz” content, and Bible studies.
Barry oftentimes brings guests to WCNO, giving us the opportunity meet them and hear their testimonies, learn of their work and ministry. WCNO is blessed to have TakenTv as a Partner with this station!
Perhaps you have a program you wish to have aired and spread through the many streaming platforms that TakenTv connects to!
You can contact Barry and/or access all of what Barry has on TakenTV by visiting his website: https://takentv.com/
Today, Barry brought to us 2 interesting guests that you will read about here… Sasha Tsutserov and Craig Pratt!
You can also hear this interview in its entirety on our On Demand Link:
WCNO 89.9 FM – ON DEMAND or ON OUR MOBILE APP!
Luke 11:13 (ESV) “…If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
SASHA TSUTSEROV
How does a Russian KGB secret agent find the Lord Jesus and turn his life around, and then begin a work in Russia to train up others to become Pastors, Teachers, and Missionaries?
Sasha Tsutserov is that man. His testimony is incredible! First, just a little background about Communism in Russia copied and pasted from Sasha’s letter about the Seminary:
Moscow Evangelical Christian Seminary
Why We Should Train Ministers for Russia in Russia
Due to 70 years of Communist Captivity (1917 -1987) “the Church in Russia has suffered the most severe and sustained persecution of any nation in recent history. … It is reckoned 200,000 Christian leaders were martyred and a further 500,000 imprisoned. There were 100,000 church-owned buildings in 1920… by 1940 only 1,000 were in use by Christians, the rest being seized or destroyed… over 90% of Russians have no meaningful link with a church…”
(Operations World encyclopedia, the 21st century edition, 541-542)
Sasha’s Testimony (taken from his interview on WCNO and from his website)
Sasha Tsutserov’s parents were members of the Communist Party in Russia. They never spoke of God or the Bible. However, when he was five years old, his grandmother insisted that he was baptized in the Orthodox Church. This was all done in secret—miles outside of Moscow, inside a dimly lit sanctuary. Although he was young, the Holy Spirit touched a hidden yearning in his heart for spiritual reality.
As an adult, Sasha became a member of the Communist Party and worked for the KGB. He had a beautiful wife Natasha, a precious daughter Julia, good friends, a bright future, and all that he dreamed of as a young man.
Julia befriended an American girl whose father was a missionary in Moscow. Natasha became their Russian language tutor. As the head of his home and a KGB agent, Sasha felt obligated to investigate these foreigners who had made such an impact on his family. He was awestruck by the humanitarian aid distributed by their church, and he was irresistibly drawn to their joy for life, for each other, and for the Lord. Step by step, he began to realize their generosity and joy stemmed from their love for God. At first, he gave God a 50/50 chance: since no one could prove God’s existence, then no one could deny him either. Sasha stepped away from his aggressively atheistic lifestyle. Then, while praying at a church retreat, he had a vision. He saw God standing on the top of a mountain. He felt he was a jar of clay. God was pouring down the pure gold of the Holy Spirit into the jar—Sasha. From that moment on, he needed no evidence for God’s existence, for he knew God in Jesus Christ. He returned home that day, and when Natasha saw him, she said, “What’s wrong with you? You are smiling!” Sasha had never smiled before. But that day, Jesus made him smile. He admitted that he had become a Christian. Natasha, in turn, confessed that she had become a Christian earlier, but she was afraid to talk about it with her husband, a KGB agent! In July 1993, Sasha was baptized and openly proclaimed his faith in Jesus Christ.
Sasha knew he could not keep his faith and his job, so he quit working for the KGB. He helped planted a church in Moscow. Sasha knew that God had called him to ministry in education. But no school in Russia offered a degree in biblical studies because the Communists had prohibited theological training. He attended Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky, and graduated with an M.Div. in 1997. In 2004, he earned a Ph.D. in New Testament at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. While studying, he also worked at the Moscow Evangelical Christian Seminary by working in every position at the school—from a secretary to the provost.
Sasha now serves as director and professor at the seminary in Moscow, where they are raising up a new generation of Christian leaders.
Sasha invites you to visit his website to learn more about his work https://onemissionsociety.org/missionaries/detail/Tsutserov
As always, you are invited to hear this interview in its entirety on
WCNO 89.9 FM – ON DEMAND or ON OUR MOBILE APP!
CRAIG PRATT
Luke 17:2 (ESV) “It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.”
Craig was a surprise guest today! He came in with Barry and Sasha, and has a local ministry very well worth sharing with you!
Craig is the Program Manager and Principal of Grace Place School in Pompano Beach. This school is different and special, because it is specifically designed to educate and restore our youth that have been through abuse and trauma.
Craig has an awesome medical testimony of his own, sharing how he was on his deathbed when Jesus touched him and healed him! Now, he says of himself and of those broken and battered youth in Grace Place School… “From life support to supporting life”.
If you would like to know more about Grace Place School, or if you want to sponsor a student, the website is: https://www.graceplaceschool.org/
Craig has a professional musical background, and is also part of Band of Brothers, who were guests on our Wednesday Live program last week!
As always, you are invited to hear this interview in its entirety on
WCNO 89.9 FM – ON DEMAND or ON OUR MOBILE APP!