Oleg the linguist learns a new language

Over the last year and a half I have had the opportunity to get to know Oleg Rakito. Oleg is a retired linguist that during the Soviet times was heavily involved with foreign students specifically from Africa. Oleg had a radio program that would broadcast into Africa. Oleg speaks multiple languages: French, Hungarian several different African dialects and even Swahili. Over the last year and a half Oleg has added yet another language, the language of the word of God. He always has some insightful questions about this new language he is learning. Please pray for Oleg that he would continue to grow in the knowledge of Jesus Christ, and that Oleg would be bold with the God News of Jesus Christ among friends and former colleagues. One of Oleg’s interesting stories is that his name appeared in the memoirs of former president Bill Clinton.

Bill  Clinton as a young Rhodes Scholar student writes of the time when as a young university student he came to Moscow. Oleg admits that he does not remember meeting him, because he would have been one of the many foreign students he had contact with at Patrice Lumumba University. Bill Clinton writes...

 "One night I took a bus out to Lumumba University (in Moscow) to have dinner with Nikki and some of her friends. One of them was a Haitian woman named Helene whose husband was studying in Paris." On the bus back home Clinton says there was only one other passenger, Oleg Rakito, who "spoke better English than I did and asked me lots of questions and told me he worked for the government, virtually admitting he was assigned to keep an eye on me".

Please pray for Oleg that he would be bold in his witness to his friends and former colleagues...and also for his several heath issues, thank you!