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.
Is there a place for Christianity in Ukrainian universities, and if so, how will Christians get access? Where does the boundary between the secular and the religious lie in the education system? In a podium discussion called "Christianity at the University: Limits of the Possible" held on January 26, 2018 at the Institute of Religious Sciences St. Thomas Aquinas, in Kiev, the representatives of various denominations and educational institutions sought the balance between moral, spiritual and secular development of an individual.
Everyone wants to be effective in what they do. Since effectiveness is most easily measured in figures, the reports on our ministry often boil down to dry statistics.
Yet each statistic has its own story, which tells about a student who found Christ through our ministry and years of work done by CCX! In order to give our readers insight into a non-statistical aspect of our work, we decided to share some of these stories.
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?”
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.
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.
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.
Kharkiv citizens, we do not know if you had some plans for Wednesday night but there is a good and important reason to stroll along the street: ССХ Ukraine is throwing a Partner Party in Kharkiv!
So, the day after tomorrow in the intellectual bar “Lacan” (74, Pushkinska Street) all our friends get together – both present and future.
You may either already be a partner of CCX or only thinking about becoming one.
