Odessa

Odessa P.O. Box 210
Odessa, 65001
Ukraine
Phone: + 38 0482 39-90-64
Email: odessa@jewsforjesus.org
 
Igor Barbanel Igor Barbanel
Leader

Shalom, my name is Igor, and I'm glad you wanted to get to know who I am and what I do. I was born and raised in an atheist family in Odessa,…

Leonid Vasserman Leonid Vasserman
Branch Leader

Leonid and Olga Vasserman Leonid is the leader of the Odessa branch of Jews for Jesus and a member of the CIS Jews for Jesus Committee. He received…

Arne Tafjord Arne Tafjord
Administrative

Shalom. My name is Arne Tafjord. I'm a Norwegian, who is living in Odessa, Ukraine since 1992. I'm married to Alla, who comes from Odessa. We have…

Yuri Persianov Yuri Persianov
Administrative

My name is Yury Persianov. Twenty-nine years ago, I was born in a city on the beautiful Black Sea: the city of Odessa, rich in history and humor. A…

Vitaly Kotlyar Vitaly Kotlyar
Administrative

Shalom! My name is Vitaly Kotlyar. I am an administrator in the Jews for Jesus ministry. In 2000, a brother from my church, Leonid Vasserman,…

Yoseph Ashurov Yoseph Ashurov
Outreach Worker

My name is Yoseph Ashurov. I am a Bukharian Jew, born in the Republic of Uzbekistan. I was one of 12 children in our family and my parents always…

Galina Bogomolova Galina Bogomolova
Outreach Worker

I come from a Jewish family that for generations lived in Ukraine's Black Sea port, Odessa. By the age of 30, my life had become joyless and grey,…

Dmitry Arlouski Dmitry Arlouski
Outreach Worker

I was born in a little Belarussian town of Orsha. My family were non-believing Jews, so they never talked to me about faith. When I served in the…

Larissa Savelieva Larissa Savelieva
Outreach Worker

My name is Larissa Savelieva. My husband's name is Valery. We live in Odessa, Ukraine. We have one daughter, Tatyana, who has a family of her…

Gena Gelman Gena Gelman
Outreach Worker

Shalom! My name is Gena Gelman. I am Jewish. I am 36. In 1996, when I got a new job as a salesman, I met a young couple that worked next to me, Yury…