Representing the Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists of RussiaGuest Speakers
SGA has enthusiastic and gifted speakers available for pulpit supply, Sunday school, missions events, banquets and more. Following are brief profiles for some of our key speakers.
Dr. Robert Provost
In 1994, Dr. Robert Provost became the fourth president of SGA after 17 years of church ministry, college and seminary administration, and leadership in international missions. Since 1989, Bob has made more than 130 trips to the lands of Russia to serve and encourage the faithful pastors, church planters and congregations of the Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists (UECB), the largest evangelical church fellowship in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
Bob’s passion is two-fold — to serve Bible-preaching churches across the CIS, and to serve congregations across North America by helping them participate in the wonderful blessings that come from partnering with Bible-preaching churches in the lands of Russia. When these churches labor together, the great harvest spoken of by our Lord is gathered for the glory of Christ.
Eric Mock
Eric responded to God’s call to leave the aerospace industry after 16 years, and began serving our Lord through SGA in 2002. Eric was a flight test engineer for nine years, and led the engineering team integrating flight computers on the initial International Space Station segments. It was during his work on the Space Station program in 1995 that he first travelled to Moscow, Russia.
He now serves as SGA’s Vice President of Ministry Operations, and travels extensively throughout the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) to encourage and serve local, national Bible-preaching churches. Eric has a heart to see God’s Truth preached and taught in these local churches. He oversees SGA ministries, which equips these churches to make disciples and see lives eternally changed by the Gospel.
Eric served for one year as Associate Pastor of Bear Valley Church in California, and is a studying to complete his MDiv at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Dr. Roman Dechtiarenko
Dr. Roman Dechtiarenko is the leading Russian-speaking teacher of Bible and theology serving SGA-sponsored seminaries and Bible institutes throughout the lands of Russia. He is also frequently in demand here in North America as a missions speaker and preacher of the Gospel.
For more than ten years, Dr. Dechtiarenko has traveled each month from school to school as SGA’s itinerant Bible teacher. His many theological courses have been reproduced in audio and video formats, and a number of them have been published in book form for ongoing use by Russian Bible and pastoral students. The passion of Roman’s heart is to . . . teach faithful men who will be able to teach others also (2 Timothy 2:2).
David Genn
David Genn joined the SGA team in 1998 following twenty years with Awana Clubs International and seven years as executive director of AWANA Clubs International, an international missions organization that has long partnered with SGA in the CIS.
David serves as a liaison between the national church in the former Soviet Union and the partners of SGA in North America. He travels to the lands of Russia numerous times each year attempting to gain a better understanding of how we in the west can better partner with the national church. While in North America David is available to share in local churches what God is doing in the Lands of Russia.
