Sunday Adelaja in Ukrainian Politics

· Kyiv, Vestibule, Pentecostals, Contemporary Persecution, Ukraine, Charismatics

Pavel Fedorov: “I teach the illiterate the alphabet.”

The Ukrainian press is exercising itself in discrediting the well-known black Kyiv pastor Sunday Adelaja. Sunday Adelaja engaged in the usual church business with a sermon about salvation, not forgetting personal enrichment. He also wanted enrichment for his parishioners through the same pyramid schemes—everyone knows the scandal with “King’s Capital.” At the root of this unproductive service to wealth—Mammon—is the modern teaching that came from America’s business churches about the “blessing of Abraham” and material “prosperity,” which was actively preached in the church. The sincerity of these people is understandable, but it does not correspond to evangelical truth.

In the campaign against Sunday, one can discern a desire to play it safe so that a Maidan does not happen again, where the ideology, alongside Ukrainian nationalism, was the Protestant desire to work honestly and to have a law-based, democratic state. After all, large Ukrainian cities have already de facto become Protestant, the ideology of the population has changed—the understanding of God, the simplicity of prayer, the possibility of independent study of Scripture, which has been brought into society by the Protestant preaching of the Gospel. A little more, and the evangelical church in Ukraine could have cleansed itself of dislocations and the dislocated and become a stronghold of a new, hardworking, God-fearing, democratic society, in which it would not be so easy for those in power to rob and enslave their own people. But this is being hindered, just as in Soviet times. The leadership of churches continues to include “secret disciples.” New reinforcements are coming to them. In many churches, a seducing spirit of pastoral tyranny, enrichment through collecting tithes from poor, naive parishioners is being introduced. Such pastors, corrupted by temptations, are easy to control, because they have something to lose.

The Ukrainian press describes the technology for creating Adelaja’s mega-Protestant church: inviting artists, connections with scientists and politicians. They show the difference in Adelaja’s involvement in the lives of well-known parishioners, which stands in stark contrast to the non-involvement and arrogance of Orthodox priests.

Former President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma also paid attention to Adelaja’s activities in providing spiritual support to the Ukrainian opposition (Pavlo Lazarenko, Yulia Tymoshenko) and planned to deport him. American congressmen intervened on Adelaja’s behalf at that time.

Sunday Adelaja’s role in the 2004 Orange Revolution is well known, something he spoke about himself and to which other prominent respondents testified. Internal support for the opposition, mobilization of Kyiv residents through detachments of evangelical agitators, stirring up the resources of many Ukrainian Protestant churches in Ukraine and even as far as America to fight against the revanche of the post-Soviet nomenklatura power of the godless. As Boris Perchatkin put it, the historical memory of the persecution of Protestants during the communist dictatorship of the USSR from 1929-1989 played a role.

That is why Sunday was immediately barred from entering Russia, and the leadership in his Russian churches was replaced with their own people.

In Ukraine, however, to avoid a repeat of the Maidan, provocateurs are being introduced into the church, who over time occupy high positions in the pastoral and business leadership of the church. Provocative commercial projects are launched to bring Sunday under a criminal code article.

Perhaps initially, Adelaja was not so susceptible to money. It seems the desire for enrichment was methodically instilled in him through provocateurs. Note how in 2005, commercial projects swindling parishioners started in Adelaja’s church, the year after the Maidan (Pavel Fedorov: “Since 2005, Sunday sharply changed the course of the church. Before that, we were taught about the transience of all earthly things, that one should not have many things…”). A group of “businessmen” and officers—provocateurs—appears. These are now the main “witnesses” to Adelaja’s affairs.

The personality of the provocateur Fedorov, a former drinking officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, is interesting. Note that the provocateur-“whistleblower” was not an ordinary person—an officer is an organized individual, must be a subtle psychologist. He initially rushed to defend Sunday, and then began to drag him through the mud, saying, “Believe me—I was with him and I know everything.”

The same scheme was used by the Zhytomyr provocateur, the “defender of the Pentecostals” from the Charismatics, advocates, and Baptists, Sinitsky. He became acquainted with Boris Perchatkin, rushed to defend him, and then “suddenly became disillusioned,” saying, “I know what I am talking about.”

Now, through the Ukrainian press and criminal psychologists, the population of Ukraine is being instilled with a rejection of evangelical values, which are associated with the hostile West and “pastors”-Charismatics insatiable for enrichment. Racial hatred toward the black Sunday is being stirred up.

Adelaja’s latest mammonistic dislocation—in mid-summer 2012, he proclaimed the creation of “Jesus Land,” modeled after “Disneyland,” with shops, restaurants, banks. For this, he needs hundreds of people donating $100 monthly (note that in the world, for such a commercial project, people would have to invest money with the subsequent receipt of profit. In the world of blasphemous fleecing of people in the Name of Jesus Christ, people invest in pastors gratuitously, and they—the pastors—will afterwards receive commercial dividends and hire the flock to work in “Jesus Land”). The enterprise is obviously overtly blasphemous, but pay attention to the correspondent-“whistleblower” Mykhailo Tkach from the national channel “1+1,” who comes to Adelaja’s church where “Jesus Land” is being discussed and sacrilegiously takes communion, blasphemously sings the Christian, Protestant hymn “The Blood of Christ Has Washed Me from Every Sin”!!!

It is noteworthy how easily the pastoral council of Ukraine disowned Adelaja. The wards of the registered churches of the AUCECB and its Pentecostal autonomy, raised with the full understanding that the authority of the commissioner for religious affairs is necessary for the organization and functioning of the church, organized a public removal, ostensibly due to sins. But why did they not distance themselves earlier, before the King’s Capital pyramid collapsed, or did they not know this was happening? Why do they not distance themselves from the hundreds and thousands of dishonest false bishops, false shepherds doing business on God? It was important to show loyalty to the state and to distance themselves from the Maidan organizer from the Protestants and the spiritual advisor to the Ukrainian opposition. To show that the church will remain silent about lawlessness in the state, in exchange for leniency toward lawlessness in the church among the “faithful” people.

Below are a couple of articles from “Ukrainian Sensations”.

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“Ukrainian Sensations” revealed the connection between “Embassy of God” and domestic politicians.

Timoshenko repented right at the Embassy of God
Many well-known Ukrainian political figures have come to the preacher of the “Embassy of God” church, Sunday Adelaja, throughout the church’s existence — in particular, Yulia Tymoshenko, Pavlo Lazarenko, Andriy Kliuyev, Kyiv mayors Oleksandr Omelchenko and Leonid Chernovetsky, and many others.

As former assistant to Pastor Sunday Adelaja, Pavel Fedorov, recalls in the “Ukrainian Sensations” program, Tymoshenko appeared at their church in December 2000:

“I remember she came just like ordinary people. She didn’t have her braid yet — she had straight hair. She came up to the podium and said, ‘There is evil sitting in parliament. We must overcome it,’ recalls Fedorov. ‘And how Sunday behaved: he took her by the hand — and swung her this way and that (mimics swinging sideways, casting demons out of Tymoshenko). He never did that with anyone else…’”

It was precisely due to his friendship with Tymoshenko that the pastor became an Orange revolutionary:
“I am a khokhol. A Ukrainian khokhol,” said Adelaja during the 2004 events.

And Nestor Shufrych in those days accused the “Embassy of God” of zombifying Kyivans to come out to the Maidan.

And in Latvia, Adelaja revealed a big secret — it was in his church that Tymoshenko repented. And she repented not to just anyone — but to Leonid Chernovetsky’s mother-in-law, Sofia Zhukotanskaya.

“I know Yulia Volodymyrivna personally. I think she is a smart woman, a very gifted Ukrainian politician,” Adelaja himself recalls about her.

“We have already managed to place our people in the Presidential Administration, we met with the president. You have advanced your people into the Cabinet of Ministers,” the pastor himself recounted at services to loud applause from followers.

“Sensations” showed old photographs and videos showing how former mayor Oleksandr Omelchenko and his successor Leonid Chernovetsky attended the church. It was the sectarians of the “Embassy” who made him a deputy of the Rada and then seated him in the mayor’s chair, Fedorov insists:

“Every day, every week we worked on elections,” Fedorov recalls. He remembers that Chernovetsky’s whole family prays to Sunday.

But in 2010, the pastor’s political views changed — as soon as the Party of Regions came to power, Adelaja began to pray to a different god:

“God is for the Party of Regions! Thank God for Kliuyev, thank God for Yanukovych! God is with us, God is with Viktor Fedorovych,” said the head of the “Embassy.”

Let us recall that just at the height of the presidential race, Sunday Adelaja met with prominent Party of Regions members. Fedorov recalls that in those days the pastor personally drew the current Chairman of the NSDC Andriy Kliuyev to the church.

After Yanukovych’s victory, Adelaja constantly received personal gratitude from the country’s top officials. Incidentally, gratitude from Kliuyev was personally conveyed by his advisor, Vladimir Shushkevich. It was he who at one time brought Pavlo Lazarenko to the church.

Shushkevich himself does not hesitate to tell how Kliuyev finances the sect:

“I come into his office, and there my sermon is playing. And he says to me, ‘You know, you won’t be able to travel all over Ukraine. Find yourself another 5-6 people — like you. And I will provide them with full financing,” says Kliuyev’s assistant Vladimir Shushkevich.

“Ukrainian Sensations” told how the Nigerian Sunday Adelaja began his activity in Ukraine:

In the 1990s, when many Ukrainian Orthodox clergy irritated citizens with their luxury and “Mercedes,” he, an ordinary messiah, seduced Ukrainians with Nigerian modesty and artists beloved by the people.

As stated in the first issue of “Ukrainian Sensations,” the graduate of the Belarusian Institute of Journalism did not want to live in poverty in Ukraine, so Sunday Adelaja walked the streets of Kyiv and personally invited the first parishioners.

“Even when I was waiting for a bus at the stop, I wouldn’t let anyone sit down — everyone had to stand with brochures of the ‘Embassy’ in their hands,” Adelaja himself admits.

You can’t gather a multimillion-strong army of fans that way, but Pastor Sunday solved this task brilliantly — almost the entire Ukrainian show business fell into his hands. And while the stars sang, the tithe chests filled to the brim:

“When I sang, the pastor would say, ‘And now everyone gives their tithe.’ I always gave and still give donations to the church,” Viktor Pavlik, who was one of the first to sing “to Adelaja’s tune,” tells “Sensations.” “It’s God! And God knows what to do with this money.”

Today, nine years later, Pavlik is finally ready to tell which stars went to Adelaja’s church:

“Katya Buzhinskaya, Petro Cherny, Sasha Baron (from the group ‘Baron and Music Step’). And later I brought Marina Odolska. I remember Ira Bilyk’s mother came — she kept asking me, ‘Vitya, please talk to Ira, maybe Ira would come to us too…’,” recalls the singer.

“Pastor Sunday was my spiritual father. Personally, nobody definitely zombified me,” says Pavlik.

Adelaja’s former assistant Pavel Fedorov tells which stars he saw at services:

“Chapkis was there, many scientists, I remember Shalimov, and of course the future Minister of Culture Oksana Bilozir,” Pavlik recalls.

Criminal psychologist Yuriy Irkhin explains the reason for the stars’ appearance in the church:
“I assure you, the leaders of such sects would never even think of deceiving a famous person! That famous person would then tell on TV that everything here is honest and decent. They are used only for advertising. No more and no less,” says the psychologist.

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