Ukrainian Ministry Grows

From the very beginning of my Healing and Counseling ministry at College Hill Presbyterian Church the plan was to take our classes and training programs around the world. I finished my doctoral work in 1975 on integration of counseling and Christianity and developed a simple plan for equipping the church to care and counsel people in need.

God gave us a simple way to go about equipping the saints in various countries. He told us to set up training centers wherever we went. Instead of simply preaching and teaching ABOUT personal healing we were to freely give our time and materials to Christian leaders and train them how to pass it on to others. This has proved to be a powerful and successful plan that has spread the Teleios Model all over the world.

One of the places we went was YWAM's University of the Nations in Hawaii. We taught there several times and through the graduates were invited to train in their counseling schools around the world. Larry and Ellen Chrouch became the YWAM point teachers in South Africa, Holland, Switzerland and Ukraine. (Perhaps more nations. I cannot remember.)

Ukraine was separated from the USSR during glasnost so most of the people speak Russian. The YWAM school there, as in Russia, has many challenges but God is moving on several fronts. Larry and Ellen have taught in the school a number of times and now several leading counselors have learned how to do the training themselves and not be dependent upon Americans. Praise the Lord! For the past two weeks Natasha and Vicky have been in Cincinnati with Larry and Ellen studying ways to improve their teaching abilities. I was thrilled to meet them Friday and share my materials and Ukrainian contacts with them.

God's plan for changing the world has always been the same from Mt 28 to the present. "Go, preach and teach every ethnic group in the world to do everything I did." Every organization we have ever set up is given that charge and, although it takes years to accomplish, it works.