For those who have already been following our news for many years there will be nothing new. It is our 4th time that we hosted a large-scale project like mission week. It always includes 3 basic elements: a creative invitation, lunch lectures in universities and an evening event in a nice venue. Year by year we tried to increase the scale of this project (it shows the success of the week, isn’t it?). In 2014 we focused on one university, in 2015 we already took three, and a month ago we did a mission in 6 universities at the same time.
In Western Ukraine, Easter is a time filled with many traditions, church services, rituals, and fasts. However, ultimately our hope is that students in Ukraine would know that these different traditions point to Jesus Christ!
From March 12-15, 2018, the Kyiv team of CCX Ukraine saw especially clearly how God united the city’s team of students and volunteers and used them to actively preach the Gospel at two universities.
CCX Ukraine ministry began as a result of InterVarsity USA outreach programs to Ukraine in early 90-s. Groups of American students were coming for a short mission trips under the Global Project program. Some of them became our first staff and mentored the next generation of Ukrainian leadership. Below is the story of David Wehrle, one of the first IV students to come to Ukraine.
"I joined the Global Project to Kiev in 1990 because of my wife’s influence. It was following our Freshman (first) year in college.
The project WHAT IF...? continued all week in Kharkiv. Its main goal was to answer frequently asked questions about Christianity, topics that everyone has considered at least once in his life.
There was a big team of organizers behind the lectures and the program. Every day the team started at 8 am with prayer and breakfast together. After that, four teams began working right away.
The first day of the week-long project WHAT IF…?ended. Words, photos or even videos cannot convey the atmosphere and emotions of the day.
On Monday we held lectures at 3 universities. SerhiyGula, a lawyer and the chairman of the NGO “No bribery!” gave a lecture on the topic "The Origin of Corruption and Ways to Deal with It" at the National Law University.
Recently a new member joined our team of staff workers – Kirill Plado.
He is the South Region Coordinator of CCX Ukraine, centered in Odessa. It seemed to us that it would be unfair to miss this chance to learn more about him. So we pass on to you what we’ve learned!
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, new and independent Ukraine opened its doors to preaching the Gospel. For CCX, which operated in those days, this collapse was only an impetus for the magnification of its activities, but not the commencement of work. After all, since 1989, the American student organization InterVarsity (still a partner of CCX) participated in so-called "academic exchanges" in Kyiv, Nizhyn, Mykolaiv, Gorlivka, and other cities. American and Ukrainian students were already working hard preaching the Gospel to students.
A few weeks ago we finished our biggest winter project - ‘Back To The Future’ camp and we would like to share with you our joy!
The number of students was surprisingly high and reached 70 students! Which is more than in our last summer camp. We were both happy and challenged as small groups were quite large and we always want to give opportunities to participate to everyone.
The sixth annual All-Ukrainian Christian student conference SALT2018 took place in the village Kapitanivka, not far from Kyiv on January 29 – February 04, 2018. This year’s SALT conference continues the tradition of previous conferences, offering students quality and unique material from competent speakers.
The theme of the conference “Mindful Christianity in the Post-truth Era” reflected two main tendencies of modern life. The aim of SALT 2018 was to help modern Christian students to cope with these.
