Slava & Masha Pleskach
Slava and Masha both come from families of believers, but personally came to know the Lord in 1990, a year after they were married. They were baptized, fellowshiped and served in a church in the region of Stavropol, in the south of Russia.
Slava is a Stavropol University graduate, majoring in agriculture. Masha was an elementary education major in a community college. Both were working and managing a grain producing farm business in that area.
In 1995, they went into ministry full-time as missionaries to the Siberian city of Tobolsk where Slava served as an assistant pastor for 3.5 years. In 1996, he graduated from the Bible Institute (Russian Baptist Union project). In 1998, they were transferred to their new ministry location, Church in Yaroslavl, where Slava served as assistant pastor for the congregation of 300 until 2002.
Since 1996, Slava has been working with the Bible League of Russia, first as their missionary and later as one of their teachers, and in 1998 became the Bible League Regional Coordinator for central Russia.
In 2000-2002, Slava received further training from the Bible Training Center for Pastors (BTCP), Moscow. Today he has a vision to plant new churches and train local pastors in church planting and pastoral care.
During their time in Yaroslavl, Slava and Masha also put efforts into planting a new church in the part of Yaroslavl where Pleskach family currently lives. By God’s grace, the first Bible study was started there in 2000 and grew to a church of 65 members today.
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