Two souls, a brother and a sister in the faith of Jesus, were baptized yesterday, on Sabbath, September 2, 2023, by Pastor Vladimire Marinov, European Division Committee Member at IMS, in the village of Sandrovo, Bulgaria, near the city of Russe, Pastor Dimitar Vlachkov, Bulgarian Field President, confirmed. The Danube river was the perfect place for a Christian baptism in the warm beginning of September. In this way, the local church of Sandrovo at the IMS, reached the number of six members.
In addition, Pastor Vladimire Marinov, an excellent Christian missionary who serves the Lord today in Finland, was born in the village of Sandrovo, Bulgaria, in 1962. By the way, the village of Sandrovo was the place, where the Bulgarian Prince Alexander of Battenberg, called by nickname Sandro, stepped for the first time on Bulgarian territory in 1879. and he reigned until his abdication in 1886.

Pastor Vladimire Marinov, together with Brother Wikler Moran and Pastor Alexander Zalozniy during the public conference at the World Assembly of IMS in Peru; a photo from the personal archive of Brother Wikler Moran on Facebook.
Written by Margarit Zhekov