Sergey Lebedev joined the staff of the English ministry of CCX Ukraine last year. Excellent English (in its British version) is not his only super skill. He writes short stories about students, their lives and problems. Sergey has agreed to write student stories monthly. Here’s his first submission:
“For all who did not sleep enough. For those, who had enough rest or just a little. For those, who have already celebrated theirs, I’ve been meditating on a work-worn thought for a few days already”.
The end of fall is a great time to evaluate the results of the year. It'sa time to remember and express our gratitude to the One who blessed us with all our successes and achievements.
Forty students and alumni came to the Thanksgiving party on September 13, 2017 in Odessa, to learn to be grateful. This event was organized by CCX Ukraine.
We studied the history of Thanksgiving in America in a creative way and evaluated its relevance for Ukraine in the 21st century.
The annual Bible & Life conference of CCX Ukraine took place near Kharkiv on October 13-16, 2017.
The conference theme was the lordship of Christ. For three days, twenty-five students had an opportunity to participate in seminars on this topic.The participants asked themselves “Is Jesus Christ the Lord of all spheres of my life?" "Does my life demonstrate a practical obedience to Jesus Christ and the Word of God?"
The Autumn Conference of CCX Odessa “Bible & Life” took place in the village of Petrodolynske, not far from Odessa on October 6-7, 2017.
This year’s conference theme was “Christianity 24/7”.
The world is rapidly changing, becoming more stressful and deep. How can you live in this marvelous new world without losing yourself and your faith in Christ?
The main speaker of the conference was Benjamin Morrison, the pastor of Calvary Chapel in Svetlovodsk and coordinator of the City2City movement in Ukraine.
The first two weeks of September were marked by an important event – Freshers’ Week held in different universities around Kyiv. It was co-organized by the Ukrainian and English departments of CCX Kyiv, its six employees, two volunteers and 30 students of CCX. This project was aimed at:
1) Finding believing students (first-year students) and involving them in the communities of CCX;
2) Making friends with non-believers through fun and informal events; helping them integrate into university life and sharing the Gospel with them.
CCX Kharkiv is used to organizing large-scale projects. Over the past 3 years, with God's help, we held three Mission Weeks, several conferences and many open lectures at different universities. This autumn, the Lord gave us a good opportunity to try something new: we won a grant from the IFES world movement to hold our project for freshmen called “Fresh Fest". However, after the first team planning meeting, we realized that it would also be a great challenge, our "Goliath", which, it seemed, could not be overcome by our own strength.
We live in the twenty-first century, when everyone can be called anything. Someone is a beekeeper, someone is a numismatist ... You want to be a Christian? Doas you please, no problems.
We are the residents of a country in which most people consider themselves Christians. However, what do we mean when we say the word “Christian”?
CCX L’viv spent the weekend of Oct. 6-8, 2017, outside the city, in the Basilian Fathers monastery. During the conference “Bible & Life”, we focused on the theme “AChristian 24/7”.
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.
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.
