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.
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.
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!
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”.
“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.
