Continuing from Daniel Arnautov’s story of growing up in a communist country, he tells his father's miraculous adventures as part of the underground church in Ukraine. Daniel is a husband and father and served in the Fusion ministry at Abundant Life in Lee’s Summit MO.

After arresting Daniel’s Grandfather, the KGB was after his father. In order to continue his work for the Kingdom, Daniel’s father had to go under the radar. He spent years of his life serving the underground church by collecting paper in nonconspicuous ways, in order to print bibles, on a homemade mobile printing press. Unbeknownst to Daniel at the time, he also spent his weekends and vacations delivering bibles all over to underground churches.

At this time, anything with the name “God” printed on it was illegal. The KGB would come into homes and inspect any piece of literature. When this happened to Daniel’s family, his mother would hide their bibles underneath pillows.

When they were eventually able to have the option to move to a different country, they moved to America and continued to live faithfully for Christ. They didn’t speak English so they started their own small Russian-speaking church in Oregon.

In comparison to how Christians in Ukraine live versus how Christians in America live, there’s a real-life faith aspect that is present in the hearts of those in countries where their faith is tested directly. In the abundance of liberty in the US, we are missing our mission.

Philippians 1:14

“And because of my chains, most of the brothers and sisters have become confident in the Lord and dare all the more to proclaim the gospel without fear.”

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