Thursday 22 August 2013

New Office

Over the summer we moved to a new apartment due to the previous one being expensive. This apartment has two rooms, one smaller one where I sleep and one bigger one which we will use as the CSC office i.e. a place for student meetings once the university term gets underway. The process of finding the office was fairly hard work as we searched for and considered a number of offers. Eventually the Lord worked to give us His solution. The director of CSC, Slavic, and myself had spent a lot of time, on three different days, simply wandering around the university area of the city as they wanted to find an apartment near to the university and by looking through ads in the newspaper we hadn't found anything suitable. Eventually, Slavic simply approached an Old lady sitting on a bench outside an apartment block and asked her if she knew of anything, to which she replied that she did. She also had a phone number. From there on we were able to get into contact with the owner and eventually view the flat and agree to terms. The location is idea as it's about 7 mins walk from the university and it certainly seemed through everything that it was the Lord's leading to this place!

Summer English and Bible camp

In July we had an English and Bible camp together with a team of 7 people from UCCF and 15 Moldovan students. Each morning we had a worship time followed by a Bible study in Mark, then an English lesson. In the afternoons there were games and outdoor activities and then an evening programme after dinner. Most of the students who came are from outside of the church and quite a few of them haven't even really had any contact with our student group, so at first I wasn't sure how they would react to the Christian activities. As it happened only one person was negative and everybody else seemed very positive. In September when the university starts again we will have a reunion for these students and so try and keep contact with them and get them involved in other activities.