About Bill Kapitaniuk
Bill's personal story is ar. exciting tale of faith, adventure, and God's provision. Bill was born in Canada to Ukrainian parents who had fled from Ukraine under Soviet Rule. While studying as a young man at the Prairie Bible Institute in Alberta, Bill heard Peter Deyneka Sr., the founder of the Slavic Gospel Association, speak about the urgent need for the gospel among the Slavic people in Eastern Europe, and he immediately felt God's call to bring the Good News to this area of the world. Bill soon joined the Slavic Gospel Association as a missionary where he served for many years.
After discovering the desperate need for Scripture in the Soviet Union, where all Bibles had been banned, Bill began smuggling Bibles into Soviet-occupied Poland. There, Christians living on the Soviet border carried and distributed these precious copies of Scripture throughout the Soviet Union. This gave Bill the dream of starting a Christian printing plant in France, where millions of copies of God's Word could be printed and smuggled over the border for the spiritually hungry people of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. With God's miraculous provision, this dream became a reality. And after the fall of the Soviet Union, God provided the opportunity and resources for Bill to open up another printing plant in Lutsk, Ukraine in 1993, that has since printed more than 14 million copies of Scripture! It is this very same printing press that is printing these copies of the Action Bible New Testament for the children of Ukraine.
Mission Eurasia (formerly Peter Deyneka Russian Ministries), which was founded by Peter Deyneka, Jr., the son of Slavic Gospel Association founder Peter Deyneka, Sr., has shared a ministry connection with Bill Kapitaniuk for many years. Mission Eurasia shares Bill's passion to reach the Next Generation in Ukraine with the gospel, and we are excited to partner with him in this project.
