Pastor Pavel Rumachik is the son of one of Russia’s most famous and most persecuted Baptist pastors, Peter Rumachik. While his father spent over 18 years in Soviet prisons and concentration camps, Pavel experienced first hand the kind of harsh treatment the KGB and other Soviet authorities leveled upon believers. During his youth, for example, their home was...Pastor Pavel Rumachik is the son of one of Russia’s most famous and most persecuted Baptist pastors, Peter Rumachik. While his father spent over 18 years in Soviet prisons and concentration camps, Pavel experienced first hand the kind of harsh treatment the KGB and other Soviet authorities leveled upon believers. During his youth, for example, their home was searched 14 times by the authorities. Attending school where teachers were trained to put intense pressure on children of Baptists, Pavel became accustomed to all manner of harassment, intimidation, and pressure. Since Pavel’s mother, Luba Rumachik served as the secret post office for the “Woman’s Council of Prisoners Relatives,” which made the plight of imprisoned Christians known throughout the world, their home and family were constantly targeted by communist authorities.
Nevertheless, Pavel grew up strong in the faith and eventually became a church planter. He planted two churches in the Moscow area as a BIEM (Baptist International Evangelical Missions) national missionary. The first church was started in the very cultural center where his father Peter Rumachik was publicly tried and sentences along with some other Christians by the Soviet government. This church is now self-supporting and in its own building. The second church in Nahabino, a Moscow suburb, is also self-supporting and in its second building program. Under Pavel’s leadership they have reached an amazing number of drug addicts and have even seen drug dealers become faithful servants of God. They have established a 24-hour Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Center, which is becoming well-known for its amazing success, appearing in Moscow news and often presenting their program in public schools. Pavel serves as pastor of this church in Nahabino and president of the Association of Brotherly Churches, which is a group of independent, fundamental Baptist churches in the Moscow area. | more | less