Timur Anichkin

Riga, Latvia

I am 38 years old. I have been a Christian for 20 years already. In November 1991, God called me to faith by the testimony about His Only Son from one brother in Christ. I became a member of the Baptist Church.

In a year I became a student of the Biblical Institute in my country. After graduation God called me to be a pastor of the Reformed church in one of the small places in Riga that is the capital of Latvia. After one year of my ministry there I was inaugurated as a pastor and ordained by the congregation to be a teacher and a preacher of the Word.

In three years of my ministry, I entered the Baltic Reformed Theological Seminary (BRTS) and graduated from it in 2008. Two years later I became a student of the Biblical Theological Seminary (BTS) of St. Petersburg where I am planning to get the M.Div. degree.

I got married in 2004. God blessed my marriage by giving us a daughter who was born the next year. She is our firstborn child who was in the covenant. Jurmala is a town on the wave crest. Its population is 56 060. Among them 50.8% are Latvians (28 356) and 35.1% are Russians (19 628). It is a small town with small population, and hence, small Christian congregations. Our congregation is also small but we have far-reaching perspectives.

In the photo above you can see my family: my wife Olga and our daughter Kate.