Eighteen years before, Nadia had said, “I will go wherever you go.”  Little did she realize one day it would mean America.  We left everything in Moscow – not only our belongings, but also our parents and families, to follow God’s calling.  We knew that our  homeland needed the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ more than anything! Despite the fact that we couldn’t speak a word of English, we knew we had to come to America to receive help for our people.
The Lord enabled the overcoming of many difficult circumstances.  TEAR was founded one year later.  The Lord had plans beyond any of our expectations.  For TEAR, Nadia and Leo, that meant becoming a bridge between America and Russia, between adults and children (the Russian orphans), between the saved and the lost.

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