“Five years ago, together with Denys Gorenkov, we arrived in Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky, a little town at the edge of Kyiv region, for the first time at the invitation of a youth pastor,” says Yuliya Nikolaychuk, Executive Director of CCX Ukraine on her Facebook page. “We made a presentation about starting an CCX group to several people at a local church and to a couple of students. To tell you the truth, we had little hope of a successful outcome.”
Thankfully, the CCX movement got off to a good start even without an CCX staff worker and it has been active for five years.
In 1969, in a Catholic family which kept religious traditions (not more than that) a girl was born, Irena Huseva. Her parents believed in God but their faith was limited to the celebration of Christmas and Easter, and she disliked Easter!
The fourth evangelism Mission Week at Kyiv universities was held during February, 2017. This year we called it “Myth Busters”.
The title speaks for itself: Christian students and speakers were destroying different myths of non-believing students about life, Christianity and God.
Prejudices against faith sounded like this: “All religions lead to Paradise”, “God is against sex” or “God is for weaklings; I was born to suffer”, and even “The Bible is the cruelest book in the world!? How can it be trusted?”
God was guiding us through the whole project “Christianity without Censorship 2” with His wise hand of providence. This large-scale project was held February 27 through March 3, 2017, at three major universities in Kharkiv on the same dates.
The title of the project implied that for Christian students, scientific knowledge of the world does not contradict faith in God but results from it. We oppose censorship of Christian thought at the universities.
According to a good tradition, the cold January of 2017 ended in the long-awaited English camp of CCX Ukraine: Next Generation--BEYOND. Winter Camp is an annual evangelistic educational project first organized 12 years ago as a follow-up or a smaller version of our large scale event, summer English camp. However, due to a larger number of campers it has gradually become a self-sufficient project. We cannot but be happy. as this year 51 students from Kyiv, Kharkiv and L’viv were plunged into the atmosphere of the event for almost a week.
The 2017 all-Ukrainian student conference Salt was the 5th one - a small anniversary. This enabled us to take into account the experience of all previous conferences and develop an integral concept of the program.
January 23, 2016, not far from the magical city of Lviv, a team of CCX workers and volunteers from the US and Great Britain will be looking forward to welcoming students from different cities of Ukraine. They’ll spend really unforgettable and useful holidays together in Winter Camp “BEYOND”!
The main event of winter holidays, which we have been waiting for the whole year, will take place very shortly (January 28 – February 2)!The all-Ukrainian student conference SALT 2017!
The main theme of the conference: Christianity and Culture.
A two-day forum called “Novomedia Forum 2016” takes place on November4-5. It is large-scale annual event highlighting mass media and social media. This year it is called “Personalization”. Motto – “You – in the sphere of media”. It will be mainly focused on personal qualities in the sphere of media – intellect, charisma, uniqueness, etc.
October 11-12, 2016, CCX Lviv with the support of the student committee of the Lviv National University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnologies within the framework of the project entitled “Bible and Science” invites students to attend seminars on “Science and the Bible” and “What Bible says about same-sex relationships”.
