BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

“I got a new attitude,” he recalls. “As my English improved, my boss increased my hours to full time. He let me run the cash register and raised my salary to $4.50 an hour. “One of my jobs in Ukraine had been as a chef. I can taste food and reproduce it. The first time I made chicken fried rice, my boss was shocked, and I started cooking at the restaurant. Then he raised my salary to $5 an hour and told me he wanted to make me a manager. “Inside, my heart was crying out for my people. In my country, even Christians were in religious bondage. God was blamed for everything. Wasn’t there something I could do to help? Finally, I decided that I would be the best manager I could be, and do it with a good attitude.” God Came Calling One day a woman from a local church approached Konstantin. “Could you help us?” she asked. “We’re going to Russia to perform a drama, but we don’t know how to speak Russian.” “What can I do?” “We want you to do what’s called a voice-over. You’ll record the lines in Russian. We’ll play your recording while we perform the play about the life of Christ.” They needed different voices for all the parts, so Konstantin recruited his family and his sister’s family to help. After the group returned from Russia, the woman visited Konstantin and Nadia. “You’ve got to see this,” she said. Konstantin watched the video in awe as so many people responded to the altar call, just from watching the drama. He had no way of knowing that the people he’d helped were Partners with Kenneth Copeland Ministries. The church had sent a copy of the tape to KCM. After watching it and listening to Konstantin’s voice-over, Kenneth Copeland told members of his staff: “God spoke to me and told me to preach the gospel to all nations. Now I see how to do it. Can you find me the guy who did the voice-over of Jesus?” “Two men from KCM flew to Missouri to offer me a job,” Konstantin remembers. “I knew this was why God had brought me to the U.S. “In 1992, we moved to Texas and I went to work doing Russian lip-sync voice-overs for Kenneth. Those messages were broadcast all over the former Soviet Union, and we received many amazing testimonies. My people were hearing messages on redemption, salvation, faith, healing and all the blessings of God. “When we first moved to Texas, I took my family to Eagle Mountain International Church in the morning, and then to a local Russian church afterward. But my children begged me not to take them to the Russian church anymore. ‘We are called to EMIC,’ they reasoned, and they wanted to join Superkid Academy. I agreed, and that was a tremendous experience! One year, a team from Superkids traveled to Ukraine to demonstrate how they do children’s ministry. I went, along with four of my children. It was amazing to be back in Ukraine. What impressed me the most was how hungry the people were for God.” Divine Connections Truly, and in an astonishingly supernatural way, Konstantin was walking in his grandfather’s footsteps. Generations earlier, God had linked Vasili Pavlov with a man named Ivan Voronaev and together they had sparked a revival fire that swept across the former Soviet Union. Today, they are recognized as the fathers of the Pentecostal movement in that part of the world. According to declassified government files, over a seven-year period, more than 350 churches sprang up with 17,000 in attendance. Determined to wipe out the movement, thousands of believers were imprisoned. When Joseph Stalin died in 1953, most of the prisoners were released. Of them, 800 were pastors and thousands were believers. When they were released, a second great awakening swept through the nations. Declassified files reported that about 1.3 million people were born again in the 1950s. Likewise, when God connected Konstantin Pavlov with KCM, together they reached millions more Russian-speaking people than either could have reached alone. Today, Konstantin and his family continue to carry on the rich spiritual heritage passed down to them through Jesus and Vasili Pavlov. Konstantin still works at KCM, now as a producer for the Russian and Ukrainian broadcasts, where he helps the ministry get its messages to Russian-speaking people around the world. The "Believer’s Voice of Victory" magazine is sent to Ukraine, where it is translated into Russian and distributed to the former Soviet Union from KCM’s Ukraine office. One of Konstantin and Nadia’s children also works at KCM, and their youngest is a Christian recording artist. As Konstantin and Nadia watch over their own children and grandchildren, they are reminded of Deuteronomy 7:9, “Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments” ("New International Version"). The multiplication of the blessing of God starts over each time someone from a new generation loves and serves the Lord. The blessing released in the Pavlov family has only just begun—and so has yours. V Join Konstantin & Nadia Partner with KCM today! kcm.org/partnernow 1-800-600-7395 (U.S. only) 16 : BVOV

• Cover