Dionissy Michailovitch Zaplishny was born on October 3 (September 10?), 1888 in the village of Pogachevka near Kiev, Ukraine. He immigrated to the United States in 1913 along with his two brothers. Zaplishny was converted in the Russian Baptist church of Waterbury, CT in 1918 and entered the Baptist Bible Teachers’ Training School in New York. He also attended Glad Tidings Tabernacle with pastor Robert Brown and received Spirit baptism on October 10, 1919. This new experience forced him to leave…