Ukraine Trip 2010
Focus: Partnership development with T.C.I. and ministry to children
Date: June 5-16, 2010 (Saturday departure -Wednesday return)
Projects: Sports and VBS camp with children in cooperation with T.C.I.
Cost: $2300 (includes air fare, accommodations and food – except when traveling) Passport Required. No immunizations required.Application due date: March 7 with $250 payment required (Remaining payments due: April 15th $1250, May 15th $800)
Proposed Schedule:
- Saturday – depart Indy
- Sunday – arrive in Kiev and ride train overnight to Kherson
- Monday - arrive in Kherson and at Tavriski Christian Institute (TCI)
- Mon-Fri – sports camp with Children at TCI
- Saturday – Rest and sightseeing in Kherson
- Sunday – worship in Kherson and ride train overnight to Kiev
- Monday – sightseeing in Kiev
- Tuesday – depart Kiev
- Wednesday – arrive in Indy
Team composition: ideally the team will consist of 6-10 people, (men, women, and teens*) who first of all Love the Lord Jesus Christ and have a deep desire to serve Him. The team will also need to be flexible with the daily schedule as well as with accommodations. Conditions are rustic and vary depending upon being in an urban or rural area. Team members should be ready to pray and give a devotional, teaching and or testimony. *Must be 16 years of age when traveling without a parent or legal guardian.
Team Leaders: Dan and Kathy Crosley
Ukraine, Eastern Europe
Tavriski Christian Institute (TCI) is a conservative evangelical seminary, which trains ministers for practical ministry in spreading God's Kingdom.
The idea to create a Christian education establishment in Kherson (regional center of Southern Ukraine) came into being in the mid of 1990s. It arose due to the clear understanding of a need for well educated ministers of local churches. A group of initiators started to work in the fall of 1996 and less than in a year, in August of 1997, the institute was officially registered.
The founder of TCI was Evangelical Christian Baptist Churches Union of the Kherson Region. The institute started with two programs for full time students - Christian Education and Christian Leadership. A part time program opened two years later. In 1999 TCI joined Euro-Asian Accreditation Association of Evangelical schools and started the process of its programs accreditation. In June 2000 the first graduation took place. In 2004 the first two programs got their accredidations.
Today TCI unites 102 students from five different evangelical denominations. It is a big Christian family, consisting of people who differ in age, character, upbringing and interests, united by the common purpose - to serve Christ fruitfully. There are church pastors, missionaries, evangelists, and leaders of other ministries here. Also church youth who committed their lives to the Lord and are willing to get good training in order to fulfill their commitment attend TCI.
TCI is not just a local educational establishment. The brothers and sisters from Kherson, Nikolayev, Kirovograd, Sumy, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhe, Zhitomir, Vinnitsa, Kiev Regions, Crimea and also Uzbekistan, Russia, Belarus, Georgia, Israel are studying here. Today TCI is real proof of the reality of Christians crossing denominational boundaries and collaborating together. It is also greatly contributing to the idea of church leaders' education necessity.
Tavriski Christian Institute
Dneprovskaya st.74, à/ÿ 39
Antonovka, Kherson 73485
Ukraine
Phone: + 380 552 444 808
Cell: + 380 953 588 404
ofis@tci.org.ua | www.tci.org.ua
Your Next Step
- Pray about going on a mission trip
- Consider how God can use you to Engage the Culture
- Be open to how God can use you
- Check out the Upcoming Trips for the latest details
- Contact Dan Crosley, Global Expansion Pastor by phone at 317- 776-4187 ext 123 or e-mail dcrosley@wrcc.org.