Biography
"I don't have a bright story. I am a person with a great desire to do everything right, to learn, to comprehend what the will of the Creator is, and to serve him," Sergey Isupov said about himself.
Sergey grew up in a large family and was the youngest of four children. Their parents were workers. They never talked about religion with their children.
Primorye is Sergey's native land. He spent his childhood in the village of Trudovoye. The house stood next to the forest and lakes—this closeness to nature determined the boy's hobbies. The whole family went to the forest for mushrooms, cedar cones and wild garlic, and in summer they always got out to the sea.
After school, Sergey graduated from a driver's class. However, he did not manage to work in this specialty for long: due to an accident, he had to abandon the profession. Later, the man mastered the specialty of a porcelain painter and worked for a long time at a porcelain factory. Later, he got a job as a plumber in the housing and maintenance department (HMD) in Vladivostok and then worked as a welder for many years. Sergey has already retired from his welding experience and has been working as a janitor for the last ten years.
The man has retained his love for nature since childhood. At the first opportunity, he gets out into the forest for wild plants and tries to spend his vacation with his family by the sea. Sergey is married and the couple has adult children. Sergey's parents are no longer alive.
"I became Jehovah's Witness after I was fifty. As a teenager, I thought the Bible was a special book, full of mysteries and knowledge. I did not agonize in search of God and did not change religion. He lived like all poor people, used the gifts of the Creator and did not thank him for it. During my work at the Housing and Utilities Department, I communicated with Jehovah's Witnesses and then met them in other places. I had a lot of questions, and I got answers. I looked at it for eight years. The time came, and I asked for a Bible study," this is how Sergey described the path that led him to Christian baptism in 2013.