What is your ministry?
Currently, a small Bible study group is being held at our home. Primarily, these are young students. Some do not attend church and want to know more about the Bible. Very often, questions from scientific apologetics arise, and we discuss them.
When did you trust Christ?
I heard about Jesus 20 years ago when I became a first-year university student. My friends invited me to a small church home group. I attended the small group and Sunday sermons for about three years till I started to read Bible myself. I absorbed it daily. The word of God touched my heart, and I understood who Jesus was. At that time, I decided to follow Him.
What have been the defining moments of your Christian walk?
The defining moments of my Christian walk were a personal study of the Bible and small Bible study groups. Only after reading the word of God myself, not via the filter of other speakers or teachers, it touched me. But the small Bible study groups maintained the interest in learning about God and the word of God. It provided growth even at moments when I was not eager to learn it myself.
What do you hope to gain from participating?
I want to get inspiration and learn more about speaking about God to students and people from the science community. The last Forum inspired me to continue to evangelise and try to answer complex questions from my colleagues and students despite the resistance and misunderstanding.
What is your leadership role or what were your past leadership roles?
My primary leadership role is the researcher at the Speech Recognition and Synthesis Laboratory of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. I'm involved in preparing and processing linguistic resources for the Belarusian language to build speech-to-text and text-to-speech technologies. Besides speech technologies, my current field of study is the automatic detection and recognition of the voices and sounds of animals. We compose animal voice datasets with a team of biologists, design algorithms to process the data and develop software for voice recognition apps.
Why should someone invest in your ministry?
I desire to know more about how to speak to people with academic backgrounds. I meet such people regularly and would like to invite them to our small group and church.
