By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Andrew McChesney, Adventist Mission)

A veteran Seventh-day Adventist church planter was killed while making pastoral visits in Russia.
Pastor Alexander Ostankin was 46.
Ostankin entered pastoral ministry as a Global Mission pioneer, and he spent the past two decades planting and pastoring churches in Siberia.
“This dedicated family planted churches for many, many years,” said Gary Krause, director of the General Conference’s Office of Adventist Mission, which oversees the Adventist Church’s Global Mission pioneer program.
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