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.
Five years ago, CCX Ukraine introduced a new project– Mission Week. Many different events take place for five days on university campuses, and all events are focused on discussions of frequently asked questions about Christianity. Christian students want and are ready to talk about such topics with their groupmates and friends.
This year’sproject WHATIF…? Pursued these goals: to tell, share and explain why we are Christians, who Jesus Christ is, and what His teaching is all about.
The first meeting of the program Full-time Christian took place in Irpin’ (a small city not far from Kyiv) on September 8-10, 2017.
This is a Ukrainian Cross-Current City Group of the project IFES GRADUATEiMPACT. In essence, this is a 3-year series of meetings of a mentoring group (up to 12 participants) for young Christians starting their professional activities.
Last month, CCX Ukraine began the new university year with a conference for employees and volunteers called "QUO VADIS?"
This event was aimed at preparing the team for the new university year and providing answers to those questions and challenges that have puzzled CCX staff for a while. The main goal was to rethink "Quo Vadis?" (Latin expression, which has become an aphorism, which means, "Where are you going?").
First, together with Roman Soloviy, Ph.D. and the head of the Resource-Research Center EAAA, we reflected on the times in which we live.
This year we had a great opportunity to celebrate Easter in Germany together with forty other movements of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) in Europe. We visited a unique event – European student conference Presence.
The scale of the conference was impressive. Seventeen hundred university students attended. The Ukrainian delegation was greatly amazed by the bold topics and questions raised and discussed there.
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?”
