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Teaching Ministries International PO Box 1483 Snellville, GA 30078 770-972-2205 USA

georges.carillet@gmail.com lbcarillet@gmail.com (LaVerne)

July 1, 2014

S i m f er op ol Cr imea

Ukraine

Our Mission

To open their eyes and turn them from dark-ness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanc-tified by faith. (Acts 26:18 NIV)

we will try to maintain our ministry in Crimea, given

the fact that so many ministries have pulled out. Real-

ly, the future of the CIU Center in Simferopol is in the

hands of our national staff.

[link to the Center, but not in English: http://chc.org.ua/

ru/info/complex ]

Let us return and visit the brothers...and see how

they are. (Acts 15:36)

Sergei and I just completed our week long visit to

our friends and staff scattered across western

Ukraine. It was a very good trip in all respects. We

were encouraged and hopefully we encouraged

others.

One of the results of the visit to Lviv is an invitation

to teach modular courses for a seminary. They sug-

gested I come twice a year for two months, teach-

ing three week courses in various parts of Ukraine. I

may not stay that long, but coming twice a year is a

real possibility, tied in with visits to Ukraine

(assuming I can yet get a visa).

The president of the Christian Hope Center in Kyiv

invited me to work with them on various projects,

from teaching in the Kyiv universities (assuming the

new relations between government and Christian

organizations bears fruit) to moving my entire team

to their facility and doing in Kyiv what we do in Cri-

mea. I told him I am interested in serving the cause

of Christ in Kyiv and elsewhere, but that for now,

The CIU Center

Rivne.Yevgeny

Novitski worked

with us for many

years, editing Rus-

sian translation of

our English confer-

ence papers. He still

works part time for

the Christian Center

for Science and

Apologetics.

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I sometimes find myself singing "The End Of The World"

I am notorious for mixing up lyrics of old songs., and some-

times I just remember one or two lines.

Why does the sun go on shining?

Why do the birds go on singing?

Don't they know it's the end of the world

I wake up in the morning and I wonder

Why ev'rything is the same as it was

I can't understand, no, I can't understand

How life goes on the way it does!

Why do these words come to mind? Sometimes I burst into

tears thinking about the situation in Crimea. There are mo-

ments when I find myself once again in disbelief that Crimea

is not under Ukrainian rule, that so many of my friends and

staff have left, and (at least for now with my first try) we can-

not even get back to our apartment to pack things we want

to ship to the US.

There are so many unknowns yet. Two more of my staff may

not find a way to stay in Crimea. Another possible problem,

our Center legally functions under an NGO, in Crimea, but

Russian laws affecting NGO’s are restrictive.

But I expect that God will find a way for our ministry to con-

tinue in Crimea for it is really needed, even if I am restricted

to Ukraine. Our staff is at work now and will be even if we

lose two of them due to

Russian laws. My tears

are sporadic but my joy

and hope is constant.

‘Trust in the Lord always

and lean not on your

own understanding!’

~~~

I preached at a church in

Kiev where the Golovins

attend. The photo shows

about half of the congre-

gation. I also spoke at a

home service.

Update on LaVerne

LaVerne’s mobility in

her shoulder is very

good but the muscles

need strengthening.

Therapy continues.

After that it is back to

therapy on her knees! The ankle surgery de-

pends on how long she can stand the pain of

putting it off and when we can pack up what

we want from our nearly 20 years of living in

Crimea.

S....

S... is back in Crimea and at work with

the CIU Center team. Her residency will no

longer be valid after Dec. 31 of this year.

Pray for her to be able to get Russian

residency in Crimea. Unlike Ukraine, in Rus-

sia churches do not have the right to invite

foreigners. We need to find another way for

her to stay and serve.

Pray those of us who need visas and/or

registration to be in Crimea.

Pray for wisdom for leaders of ministries

that are adversely affected by the Russian

occupation/annexing of Crimea.

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Poland

European Leadership Forum > apply for Russian visa for Crimea > Ostroda Camp > apply for visa again

George Bajenski invited Georges Carillet to participate in two

camps in northern Poland, Camp Ostrodo. The second camp

was for Israeli Jews. Including two who had been in concen-

tration camps.

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The Crimea diaspora

a visit among friends, colleagues, former staff, and others in need of and exchange of encouragement

Lutsk. In July, thanks to

gross corruption by the

city officials who wanted

the building that housed

the Christian Children’s

Home, Andrei and Anya

& their nine children

were to be kicked out of

where they had lived

since the children were

infants and toddlers. The

take over of Crimea by

the Russians speeded

their move. They have

found a large apartment

in a good location and

they are dong surprising-

ly well adjusting to the

changes.

Lviv/Lvov. Now home to the families of Katya &

Yevgeny, and Sergei & Ksousha, & displaced others.

[Sergei Korniyenko’s wife Ksousha below.]

We spent two nights in Lviv. I spent some de-

lightful time with Sergei & Ksousha and kids in

their apartment. Later I spent some hours with

Yevgeny in his apartment — I was just missing

Katya since she was visiting family in Crimea and

would return about the time I would leave for the

US.

We guys enjoyed some time talking shop.

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http://christianstandard.com/2013/03/a-global-

partnership/

VIDEOS:

http://bit.ly/YznC02

http://bit.ly/YwNDHH A 12 minute interview of some of

our graduates.

Go to the home page of The Missions Network (http://

www.themissionsnetwork.com/) and search for Carillet

A thank you video is ready for editing & posting soon.

Commonwealth International University’s

Center in Ukraine is a

Disciple-making student ministry

Bible degree granting school

Ministry & outreach center

Yevgeny introduced me to the dean of a seminary who also serves in the Eurasian Accrediting Association office and is interested in

my teaching for the seminary, both in Lviv and in their satellite locations.

Ternopil/Ternopol. Ruslan and Sharyn serve

with YWAM in Crimea, but were recently as-

signed to Ternopol to serve the YWAM base

there for one year. They work in Sevastopol

and Simferopol in Crimea. Ruslan is a Ukrainian

citizen, so he can go and come 90 days out of

180. Sharyn does not yet know how she will be

able to resume work in Crimea since she does

not even have the right of 90 days out of 180—

but they have a year yet and who knows what

changes can yet happen. They have a thrift

shop ministry designed to serve families in

Simferopol which they lead from Ternopil. We

may be able to helps them with Tabitha cloth-

ing.