In this episode, I talk to Natasha Schedrivaya. Listen as she shares her journey from growing up atheist in the Soviet Union—military base moves, communist indoctrination, no knowledge of God—to finding Jesus through a friend's miracle healing, a smuggled magazine, and a Bible from America that revealed profound truth.
We explore Russian winters, breaking free from atheism, accepting Christ, leading her parents to faith, and advice for skeptics: keep asking about life's meaning—God meets sincere seekers.
She shares why America's Christian roots resist communism and why the church needs to preach the true Gospel boldly. Natasha also describes her ministry outreach to remote Russian villages and ethnic groups (especially in forest areas and above the Arctic Circle, where people live in poverty and have little exposure to the Gospel), planting small home churches for real discipleship through relationships, providing practical help like truckloads of firewood for heating homes (since most villages lack gas) and school supplies for children, and sowing seeds of truth among generous, open-hearted village people she calls the "real treasures" of Russia.
A must-listen for redemption testimonies, faith under communism, reaching atheists, or God's power through simple seeds.
Natasha is a WMA Associate Missionary:
https://www.worldmissionsadvance.org/natalia-schedrivaya