Bringing Hidden Things to Light

The second edition of Lydia Istomina’s book Bringing Hidden Things to Light is available on Amazon.

Americans have churches on every corner and do not value their freedom to practice their faith. American congregations suffer from bullying and antagonism running people off. In Russia, faith and Church were prohibited for 60 years. This book is about the first female pastor and God’s work through her in post-Soviet Russia. It is a true story of transformation that took place in Ekaterinburg, Russia and brought together many ordinary individuals who attempted an extraordinary change.

The book also shares a concern about the ethical side of Christian missionary work in a foreign country. The excitement of meeting American missionaries did not allow the former Soviets to distinguish true collaboration from manipulation and discrimination. Continue reading →

“From Misery to Mystery” on FaceBook!

Lydia Istomina’s From Misery to Mystery is filled with short, easy-to-digest anecdotes that fit together to depict her story- the life of a mother, immigrant, and spiritual leader. Taken individually, each morsel is easily accessible and applicable to all of our lives. Childhood wonderment. Adolescent questioning. The growth and success, as well as loss and transformation, of adulthood. What is remarkable about Istomina is that she has not lost the connection to the unadulterated, sincere emotions that she lived in each of these anecdotes. The passage of time has not covered her memories in cob webs and the retelling of them has not become mixed with the revisionism of ex-post facto rationalization. This quality of Istomina as a story-teller makes the experience of reading From Misery to Mystery so rewarding, the rewards compounded by the growing understanding of her worldview, humor, and spirituality that one gets moving through each story. (From one of the Amazon.com reviews)

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Welcome to Lydia Istomina Official Website! Lydia is a minister, advocate for justice, social media marketing consultant, author, and a blog writer.  Her blog Changing the Mindset: Full Acceptance or Just and Exception was published by the General Commission on the Status and Role of Women.

One of Lydia’s books From Misery to Mystery is filled with short, easy-to-digest anecdotes that fit together to depict her story- the life of a mother, immigrant, and spiritual leader. Taken individually, each morsel is easily accessible and applicable to all of our lives. Childhood wonderment. Adolescent questioning. The growth and success, as well as loss and transformation, of adulthood. What is remarkable about Istomina is that she has not lost the connection to the unadulterated, sincere emotions that she lived in each of these anecdotes. The passage of time has not covered her memories in cob webs and the retelling of them has not become mixed with the revisionism of ex-post facto rationalization. This quality of Istomina as a story-teller makes the experience of reading From Misery to Mystery so rewarding, the rewards compounded by the growing understanding of her worldview, humor, and spirituality that one gets moving through each story.

About Lydia Istomina

Minister, singer, writer, Russian tutor and consultant for organizational change.

Lydia is a prolific, original and inspirational writer with deep insight and keen ability to put her very unique experiences into words. Her blog captures the essence of those experiences and observations at http://ligooshka.blogspot.com. Her blog View From the Hammock represents Lydia’s view on life, relationships, and ethics. She also blogs in Russian Vzgliad is Gamaka.

Lydia’s latest book, the second edition of her Bringing Hidden Things to Light, is out on Kindle, do not miss it!

“From Misery to Mystery” is a book that presents an enticing and very personal account of her life in America, especially in the Kansas City Area, as a woman, a foreigner, a pastor, and just as a regular human being.
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“Zhizn’ Dushi: Zastav Duraka Bogu Molitsa,” or Life of a Soul, published in Russian, is an autobiographical thriller, providing  a sincere account of her personal transformation given against a background of political and historic events that filled the 1990s. Her articles and stories are published in the Methodist magazines and newspapers around the world.

 

 

Russian Giant Delivers Saving Grace 20 Years Ago

April 22, 2012

Twenty years ago, people of Shreveport, LA got serious jitters at the sight of a Russian military plane AN-124 coming in for a landing at the nearby Barksdale Airforce Base. Against the stereotypical assumptions, however, this flight did not have any militaristic intentions. Quite the opposite, the large transport plane was coming with the most noble of goals – to load 86 tons of humanitarian aid consisting of food and medical supplies and to deliver the valuable load to Ekaterinburg, Russia.

April of 1992 witnessed several historical moments. This very first memorable landing of the Russian military plan, AN-124 (Ruslan), on the American Airforce Base, Barskdale AFB, was completely unthinkable before that day. Such breakthrough event led to a series of reciprocal visits and exchanges between ex-enemy states in the months to come.

The gifts of humanitarian aid from the Unites States to Russia took place before, but this was the first of its kind from American Methodists to Russian Methodists, especially on that scale. Moreover, thanks to AN-124 and its 18-member crew, this valuable load bypassed the bureaucracy and corruption, arriving directly to Ekaterinburg and reaching the ones truly in need.

Capt. Yuriy Martinenko and his team flew 24 hours straight, in shifts. Arriving in the morning of April 22, 1992, the plane spent 32 hours on the base while being loaded up, setting off on its return journey on April 25.