Anatoliy and his wife Alla were saved as adults and baptized in the Ark of Salvation Church in Odesa, Ukraine. Anatoliy started the Philadelphia Church on the south side of Odesa, Ukraine. The village church in Limaniy, Ukraine, began as an outreach of the Philadelphia Church. Anatoliy eventually moved to Hope for People Church on the north side of Odesa and has continued his church planting efforts as an outreach of that church. He has also done outreach in many other neighboring villages in the Mykolaiv region.
Anatoliy has a heart for evangelism and often does street preaching and door to door evangelism in Limaniy, Ukraine (and surrounding villages), as well as providing a regular weekly outreach in a nearby nursing home.
In some villages, he has the opportunity to preach in different places (like in schools, kindergartens, clubs, libraries, village councils, a sports ground, on the streets, and in the car). In the village of Limaniy, where their small church was founded, he conducts various services. Anatoliy used to have several assistants to serve alongside him, but many have left the village for the city. When he organizes evangelism, he invites a team from the church in Mykolaiv to join him. He serves there as an acting minister during the war, since their pastor left for the States.
Once a month, Antaloliy gives a sermon and provides communion. For each service in Limaniy, they bring people from the village of Viktorovka. During the summers, he has hosted children's camps. More often, he travels to different villages with the gospel by himself, but seeks to encourage others to come with him. In the district center of Berezanka, he conducts Bible studies every week. He preaches in the Odesa church and shares the gospel in the car as he picks up people and gives them free rides.
Pastor Anatoliy graduated from the Church Ministries Institute and then went on to continue his studies and receive a master's degree at the Odesa Theological Seminary.
He and his wife Alla have two grown children. Alla is involved with ladies' ministry.