Interview with Anne Sokol
This is something new for my blog and I’m very excited about it! you can listen to this interview by clicking on the player provided on this page. I hope you enjoy this new aspect of this website. I also have the transcript of this interview at the bottom of this page if you would rather read than listen.
You can find out more about the Sokol’s ministries by visiting:
www.birthinukraine.wordpress.com
www.evangelisminukraine.wordpress.com
Or to findout about the Christian birth education courses that Anne mentions, you can visit charischildbirth.org
Their mission agency is www.titusinternational.org
Please visit their websites and support them with your prayers, and consider supporting them financially as well.
Thanks again to Anne. You were a great first guest on this blog!
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Transcript of Interview
Keri: So Anne I’m excited to talk to you this is the first time we’ve ever spoken.
Anne: I’m excited to be here with you
Keri: I told her she was my guinea pig because I’ve never done an interview on my blog before.
Why don’t’ you tell us just a little bit about how a girl went from Chattanooga ended up in the Ukraine?
Anne: When I was in High school we had a lot of missionaries come in and out of our church That was also the time when the wall of communism fell in Eastern Europe. I’d heard a lot of things about Russia and the former Soviet Union. And my dream became. Well let me back up a little bit. I had a lot of other interests. I was also interested in the pro-life movement and I was involved in that in my hometown. I also wanted to be a nurse midwife that was my dream. So I combined all these things and I wanted to be a missionary in Russia and help women who were having abortions because there was such an astronomical abortion rate in Russia. My dream was to have a home for women who were in crisis pregnancies and I would be their midwife and help them be able to work, go to school, and not have to abort their babies and this was my whole dream.
When I was 18 I went for the summer to Ukraine and the Lord really attached my heart here. I have actually never been to Russia but I’ve been here and loved it. And then I wanted to come here full time for a long time. I was at school at Bob Jones for years and during those several years and I worked at HomeSat for several years. And all during this time at certain periods this desire to be on the mission field would come and I would just cry and just ask God why do you give me this desire and don’t let me fulfill it. You don’t fulfill it. It was really a purging time, just the Lord taking away just a lot of the wrong motives and humbling me and making me ready for being on the mission field. Then one day I got an e-mail from Pavlo who was a student at Bob Jones and he had gone back to Kiev here and he had started a little Bible institute. He wrote an e-mail asking for someone to come and teach English to the students. As soon as I read that e-mail I knew form God that that was my job. So He finally let me come here full time and I came as a single missionary. The funny thing is that Vitaliy my husband was one of my students and we got to know each other, and he has such an amazing character and love for the Lord. Then the next year we were teachers together at the school and he had a very high level of English so we could communicate well at that time. I’m just so thankful that the Lord brought us together. The Lord helped me be obedient at the right time so I could meet Vitaliy and I could live the life now that the Lord has given me. So that’s how I wound up in Ukraine. We were married in 2004 almost 6 years ago now. That’s our little story.
Keri: That’s so great. When you went to Bob Jones then, were you looking to be in missions is that what you majored in? How did that start?
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