Galina Bankeeva
Needs support
I am 23 years old. I was born in Russia in the Far East in a little town - Ussuriisk. I lived in the usual non-christian Russian family - mother, father and I. From early childhood I was an egoist because I was the only child in our family and I got used to the fact that everything I wanted my parents gave to me.
After some time, I was growing and my parents had difficulty getting on with me. My mother began to find a way out and one day she listened at the radio that children from Christian families are more obedient that children from non-christian families. And she decided to go o the church with me. My mother repented and was baptized. But I was still disobedient. My father didn't want to accept God, he drunk quite often and didn't permit me to go the church.
In summer of 1995 I went to a Christian camp where I understood that I am a bad person but even in spite this fact God loves me and is ready to accept and forgive me. And I then I asked Lord to forgive me all my sins. And after that my life began to change and I was changing not very fast but step by step. Loving God helped me to become His faithful daughter. After the camp, in November, my father died and my mother and I stayed alone.
In 1999 I was baptized. I had been serving in the church in music group for 6 years. I like to sing very much and to glorify our Heavenly Father in the songs.
Thanks to God and my mother I had an opportunity to study in the Pedagogical University on the faculty "Elementary school Teacher". And when I went to work at school I saw how our world is going to the hell and how people need God. Children at school are very aggressive, they are always quarreling with each other, they don't respect the elders and the main and biggest problem is in the fact that they don't know God and how He loves them.
And in that moment I had a big wish to tell children about Christ. But I don't have Christian formation. And then I began to find information about entering to SPbCU.
At first I didn't have such an opportunity to study there as I didn't have enough money to pay for my studies and life in Saint Petersburg because we live only on my mother's little pension. But we didn't lose hope and began to pray about God's will on my studies in the SPbCU. And after some time I sent all documents to SPbCU and I was invited to come.
God gave me a chance to come here and to pay for the first semester. I believe that if God brought me here he won't leave me alone and He will give me everything for my studies in the SPbCU.