Tavriski Christian Institute is a conservative evangelical seminary, which trains ministers for practical ministry in spreading God's Kingdom.
The idea to create a Christian education establishment in Kherson (regional center of Southern Ukraine) came into being in the middle of 90s. It arose due to the clear understanding of a need for well educated ministers of local churches. A group of initiators started to work in the fall of 1996 and less than in a year, in August of 1997, the institute was officially registered.
The founder of TCI was Evangelical Christian Baptist Churches Union of the Kherson Region. The institute started with two programs for full time students - Christian Education and Christian Leadership. A part time program opened two years later. In 1999 TCI joined Euro-Asian Accreditation Association of Evangelical schools and started the process of its programs accreditation. In June 2000 the first graduation took place. In 2004 the first two programs got their accreditations.
Today TCI unites 102 students from five different evangelical denominations. It is a big Christian family, consisting of people who differ in age, character, upbringing and interests, united by the common purpose - to serve Christ fruitfully. There are church pastors, missionaries, evangelists, and leaders of other ministries here. Also church youth who committed their lives to the Lord and are willing to get good training in order to fulfill their commitment attend TCI.
TCI is not just a local educational establishment. The brothers and sisters from Kherson, Nikolayev, Kirovograd, Sumy, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhe, Zhitomir, Vinnitsa, Kiev Regions, Crimea and also Uzbekistan, Russia, Belarus, Georgia, Israel are studding here. Today TCI is real proof of the reality of Christians crossing denominational boundaries and collaborating together. It is also a valid reason towards the idea of church leaders' education necessity.
We believe that the Lord has intended Ukraine to become the source of well equipped ministers for the expansion of His Kingdom in the former Soviet Union and other countries. TCI has an important role in that plan.
