MDI Continues to Serve by Mentoring, Equipping and Advising Ministries

In 2008, MDI worked with our core ministries including:
1. Radooga International who served 1000 youth in summer camps and developed a new ministry for orphan children that is throughout Ukraine.
2. The Invalid Center for disabled children.
3. Loza, a developing ministry to help leaders and seekers of truth see how the Gospel connects with all of reality.
4. New Life Church and many others......

Thank you for your partnership!!!
And now MDI needs your help as we move into 2009
The following are some areas where you can partner with us financially.

• Journey to Freedom in Odessa, Ukraine. Help to get this ministry up and running and the book, Journey to Freedom, translated. The annual budget is $39,700.
• MDI Ministry Center in Kiev, with Sveta Boiko, Director, coordinates and oversees conferences and conducts MDI business in Ukraine. The annual budget is $16,000.00
• Invalid Children Ministry of New Life Center provides day care for children with disabilities. The annual budget is $18,000.00.
• Radooga needs to purchase or build a facility that can be used as offices. They also need help providing scholarships for Ukrainian youth to attend summer camps, provide camps for orphans, and large youth conferences. The cost is $220/student and we are raising money for 1000 youth!
• Women's Conferences in 3 cities are being planned for Spring 2009. Scholarships are needed for 600 women to attend at a cost of $50 each for a total of $30,000.00.

Steve Lorenz, CEO, Marti Scudder, President, and Randy Morgan, Director of Ministry Development, raise personal support to provide leadership for MDI. Each needs additional funding to continue to build MDI's ministry. Please help them make 2009 a record year for MDI.

Please pray for MDI and all the people and ministries we work with in 2009!

We thank you for your support and ask that you make your tax deductible donations to:
MDI, 204 Burnt Leaf Lane, Nashville, TN 37027. MDI is a 501(c)3 tax exempt organization.

MDI Leads a Women's Leadership Conference in Kiev

This Fall, MDI took a team from four churches to Kiev, Ukraine, to lead a three day conference for women who are leaders in ministry. We went as equippers and mentors to prepare these leaders to move out into the world. The theme of the conference was "Led by Love, Lead by Love," based on Hebrews 3:1-6. This conference was about understanding the foundations of love - love that inspires, love that sustains, love that draws others, love that equips us as leaders. Teresa Sugar was the keynote speaker. There were five workshops taught by our team and each woman attending the conference attended each one. God knit the hearts of the team with the women in Ukraine as they shared their stories of adversity, pain and suffering and wisdom gained and how God used all for His glory.

MDI Establishes Journey to Freedom in Ukraine

MDI establishes Journey to Freedom in Odessa, Ukraine in 2008 by hiring Tanya Baranova to be the first staff person to direct this ministry. Tanya is a psychologist, who has worked in a rehab center and is also a recovering addict, and knows that true freedom and recovery can only come through a relationship with Jesus. Sergey Bermas, an Odessa pastor, is working with Tanya. Journey to Freedom works through small groups led by trained facilitators. Journey to Freedom was founded by Scott Reall, of Restore Ministry, YMCA of Middle Tennessee. Journey to Freedom brings healing to those with life controlling issues. Many people escape reality via alcoholism, drug abuse, abortions, depression and other issues. Journey to Freedom can help transform their thinking and their belief system about themselves... and will drastically change the way that they live and lead! Using the Odessa ministry as a model, MDI hopes to replicate it in Kiev and believes that God will open the doors to take it into Eastern Europe where MDI is already working.