Peter Mikhailovich Kulakov (born 21 March 1964) is a

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, founding director of the first Christian Media Center in the

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, and overseas missionary. He was born in Kokand,

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(now

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), and raised in central Russia. He is a

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. In 1990, at the age of 26, Kulakov was the first Christian to appear live regularly on two national communist radio networks, blanketing 11 time zones with 900 FM stations.

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research showed the Voice of Hope radio program as the most popular among all the other religious broadcasts. In 1992 he appeared at the

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of Culture for 12 days as a Russian translator for American Evangelist

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, as well as in the Moscow Olympic Stadium in 1993.
In 2005 Peter Kulakov started a weekly Light of Hope television program in two languages, Russian and English. The Russian Light of Hope program is broadcast on the CNL evangelical satellite network, as well as on the Hope Europe satellite channel. The English program is aired weekly on Comcast channel 5 in Metro Atlanta. In 2007 and in 2010 Kulakov presented two major satellite evangelistic series of meetings live from

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and

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. Peter currently serves as the Assistant to the President for Evangelism (https://www.gccsda.com/evangelism) in the Georgia-Cumberland Conference of Seventh-day Adventist. Prior to this role, Peter served as Senior Pastor at the Ooltewah (TN) Seventh-day Adventist Church and the Lakeview (GA) Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Biography

Kulakov was born in Kokand, Uzbekistan. He was the fifth out of six children born to Anna and Mikhail Kulakov, prisoner of conscience and gulag survivor.

References

External links

* http://www.ministrymagazine.org/archive/1993/March/evangelism-goes-to-moscow
www.lightofhopetv.com

www.lakeviewadventist.org

www.adventist.ru

www.vohesd.ru
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