John Novicoff was born in 1931 in East Los Angeles and lived in Savannah since 1972,
John’s life is a long and winding journey of ups and downs, successes and failures. Yet God faithfully used him John as His servant despite John’s own weakness and struggles. John’s testimony demonstrates God’s steady providence and long-suffering patience. It shows us how grace is not a one time event, but is something that we require again and again. It shows how God can use our failings and circumstances for his purposes.
John testifies to a God that is with us in times of great suffering. John’s testimony shows how amendment of life can some slowly but surely as God does his slow and steady work in us.
This interview is split into two podcasts. This first podcast takes us from John’s childhood in a turbulent family and Russian upbringing in Depression era East LA’s all the way through John’s call to ministry and military service spanning the wrap up of the 2nd Word War through the wars in Korea and Vietnam.
The second podcast episode will focus on John’s half century of ministry and counseling in Savannah as well as his involvement in international mission work, alcoholics anonymous and his wife’s brave and clear-eyed battle with a debilitating illness. Missio Savannah hopes you benefit from John's grace-marked testimony. To God be the Glory, great thing He has done!