25 SPRING 2025 They reached out to all of their friends and family and were able to raise enough support to send Olga to Bethel for just one year. So in 2002, she boarded a plane and flew across the world to Mishawaka, Ind., to begin her Bethel journey. “I remember every class started with prayer. [I experienced] teaching the love of Christ and was encouraged in my faith. It was a dream. I wondered. 'Is this what heaven is like?'" she says. Enough support was raised for Olga to continue her studies at Bethel for a second year, and then a third, and then a fourth. “It was by the provision of the Lord that I graduated from a Christian college with a music degree,” she says. Following graduation, Olga married her husband David Christoffersen and served as a missionary and worship leader in Denmark for 13 years. They had two children, Caspian and Leah. The couple relocated to the United States in 2019, where Olga spent five-and-a-half years as a worship leader at Pathway Community Church in Fort Wayne, Ind., the current home church of the Norris family who introduced her family to Christ in Volgograd. Today, she serves as an associate producer at Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, Ky., collaborating with 13 church campuses. “God equips us all along for our next steps,” Olga says. “Nothing is wasted.” Though she struggled with her identity living “between borders,” she now considers her citizenship in Heaven and proudly claims the identity of “child of God.” Olga hopes that those who see the film will see Jesus in her family’s story, and put a face to the word “refugee.” Page 24: Olga leads worship at Pathway Community Church in FortWayne, Ind. Page 25, top left: Olga is pictured with her parents at her graduation from Bethel. Top right: Olga is pictured with her mother, Violetta, and sister, Julia, in Volgograd, Russia, around 1991. Bottom left: Olga is pictured with her husband, David, and children, Leah and Caspian, in FortWayne, Ind. Bottom right: The Petrosyan family is shown on a recent vacation to Myrtle Beach, Fla. in 2024. Learn more about the film her family is featured in at BetweenBordersMovie.com.
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