Save the date! April 14, 2011

New video explaining our upcoming project!

The battle for these conferences has begun! We need your prayers!

We just received word that a woman from the Department of Education in Kiev (the site of one of our Christian Morals & Ethics conferences) is refusing to extend the necessary documents to our partner in Ukraine, Regeneration. Her grievance is that we are not affiliated with the Orthodox church.

Our partners in Ukraine are working hard to resolve this issue, but please lift this situation up in prayer, that this woman's heart would be miraculously changed! We also have only 15 more days to raise an additional $5831 for these conferences, so that the teachers can afford to attend them. Without the training they will receive at these conferences, they will NOT be able to teach Christian morals in their classrooms!

Click below to find out how you can help!

Profiles of the CPA teachers working the conferences

Here's a look at the teachers who will be joining MDI this spring:

	Carey Dincauze Carey has been with CPA for 11 years, where she currently teaches English. She will be leading seminars on how Christian ethics can fundamentally shift how students view themselves, communicate, relate to one another, grow as leaders, and respond to discipline. She will also share how belief in the person of Jesus Christ is crucial to living by these morals.
	Ben Ellis Rev. Ben Ellis is an Instructor of Latin, Bible, and History at Christ Presbyterian Academy. His classroom teaching experience has covered the wide range of ages from 3rd grade through seminary and graduate level education, both in the USA and in international schools. Ben will be leading seminars focused on how a Christian understanding of oneself paves the way for emotionally, psychologically, and socially healthy students.
	Kendra Posey Kendra Posey is a literature and Bible teacher at Christ Presbyterian Academy. This is her second year there. The first five years of her career she spent teaching at a public middle school. Kendra will be leading seminars relying on real world and personal examples to demonstrate how a Christian worldview can make a serious impact on life choices.

MDI teaming up with CPA to bring Christ to the classrooms of Ukraine!

This March, three teachers from Christ Presbyterian Academy will travel with MDI to Ukraine to conduct two conferences for public school teachers in that country. The conferences are a part of MDI's Christian Morals & Ethics project. Together with our ministry partner Regeneration (part of New Life Center), we have the opportunity to bring Jesus Christ into the classrooms of Ukraine.

During these conferences (to be held March 14-18), the teachers from CPA will share with hundreds of Ukrainian public school teachers about the powerful impact that Jesus Christ can make on a student, their lives and their education. The Ukrainian teachers will then be certified and allowed to use Regeneration's curriculum for Christian Morals and Ethics in their classrooms.

We are incredibly excited about this opportunity, and we hope it is the first of many conference series we'll conduct. However, because of recent governmental changes in Ukraine, there is no guarantee that we will ever have this opportunity again.

We need to raise $8500 to cover the cost of the conferences so that the Ukrainian teachers can attend them free of charge. Please consider taking part in this ministry by supporting it financially! To do so now by credit card, please click the donate button below or visit http://www.mdiweb.org/supportmne.htm for instructions to give by check.