Carillet’s update March 25, 2014
I spoke with Nastya (Anastasia, CIU’s office and building manager) this morning – her afternoon. She was cooking hot dogs to treat the staff and students who were still working on the Center grounds, cleaning, weeding, planting, watering, — helping spring along. The staff is getting over the shock of having lost their country, but still undecided about their future. Yet, they are committed to staying where they are and continuing to serve in the multiple ministries of the Center. (Ustinovich is on sabbatical but planning to move his family to Western Ukraine, teaching modular courses for us from time to time. Zhenya is from Sevastopol and Katya from Simferopol – all their lives. Western Ukraine is quite different than Crimea. Natalka, our campus and student ministry director, came from Western Ukraine quite some time ago to work with an inter varsity ministry; she has adjusted to Crimean life … and now has another adjustment to make.
The staff is encouraged by your prayers, and the fact that half of their salaries are supplied by designated gifts, much of it just in recent months – two means of demonstrating your support of their ministries.
Thanks,
Georges
Do you know about the Holodomor in Ukraine?
Death by Starvation:
The Crisis In Ukraine Has Much Deeper And Darker Roots Than Many Realize
While we can never call one tragedy “worse” than another, some historians claim Stalin killed just as many Ukrainians as Hitler killed Jews — possibly more. [3 to 10 million]
… “For Ukrainians, E.U. membership means more than economic opportunities and mobility. It is about distancing themselves from Putin, who is said to revere Stalin, the very dictator who tried to erase Ukraine and managed to partition it, at least politically,”Andrea Chalupa, who studied at the Harvard Ukrainian Institute, wrote for Time.
Although fewer than one-fifth of Americans feel the U.S. has any obligation to protect Ukraine from Russian invasion, according to a YouGov poll, history reminds us of the need to watch closely. Putin’s affiliation with Stalin looks all too clear. And Hillary Clinton, among others, already compared the Kremlin’s actions to those of Adolf Hitler.
For Ukraine, this invasion just signifies another notch in a long line of abuses.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/ukrainian-famine-2014-3#ixzz2wz2ZdArr
A sober analysis of what can be done and not done to contain Russia’s expansionism