Oftentimes people reach out to us via BBC’s contact page to
which Mark responds to all reasonable requests. We met Yuri through one of
those contacts. Yuri first visited BBC several weeks ago when we went out of
town but last weekend came to stay with us. How fascinating to hear his story
and how God saved him.
Yuri’s family immigrated to Canada as refugees from the broken Soviet Union in the early 1990s when he was a child. Over time Yuri of course learned English
and diligently sought to rid his English of a Russian/Ukrainian accent so he
speaks English quite clearly. In 2008 he
first came to a large city in China to work in the electronics field then studied
Chinese. While living in that city, the Lord saved him. Eventually, he
went to the US for training and serving in some hard places. With a heart for
China and some language under his belt, he returned to China. Now he teaches language and culture at a university a few hours outside of
Beijing.
He originally contacted BBC looking for Xn teaching and
fellowship. In describing his city, it seems a lonely place and very little
solid Xn teaching. Our out-dated Lonely Planet China
book describes his city as “a cultural desert” and “no place to linger”. Wow,
let’s go!
Please remember Yuri and his hunger for solid teaching and
fellowship.
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