English anyone!

One of the activities that I have been involved in since being in Balti, has been to organise a weekly English club for students. This semester the English club idea became very popular so much so that I ended up having three groups with students (one weekly at the medical college and at the church in Balti and one twice weekly at the Church in Rautel, a village just outside of Balti) and also a group with Children, also at the Emanuel church in Balti. Above and beyond the simple idea of doing English activities, games and exercises, I tried adding a spiritual dimension to these groups, for example reading a Bible text, doing an activity with Biblical vocabulary or listening to a song in English with a more profound meaning. This worked better in some of the groups than others, depending on the English ability and openness of the participants. The most successful example to date, is a girl from the group at the church in Balti, who has started to come to the Church's youth meetings and to read passages in Luke's gospel in English. As far as I can see, this is the first time in her life that she has ever read in the Bible or attended a church!

New office CSC Balti!

After a long search, from what I know its been at least a few years, last week CSC finally purchased a property in Balti to be used as the organisation's base here. The respective property is in a two floor building, where the upstairs floor contains two apartments and the ground floor contains an apartment and an open space, which was used as a magazin, but now belongs to CSC. It's in good condition and is in a very good location for student ministry, being just across the road from the university. All that's needed is a bit of work on the outside and furniture for the inside (it's currently empty) and then it can begin being used for student activities. Below is a photo and the are more on facebook :

Latest Prayer Update for CSC Moldova

Prayer Update

Beginning of a new Semester

In CSC Balti, we had our first meeting of the academic year on Monday, 1st September, together with some of the Christian students who had been involved the previous year plus a new student who said she wanted to be involved this year. We discussed some possible ideas for the coming semester and made a tentative plan. The first event was the following the Wednesday, 3rd September, where we invited all the students from Balti who had participated in the summer English camp. Out of a possible 19 students, 11 students came, which for our small office was already a good number! We had some games, time to share about the camp, photos and food and we also presented to them some of the activities they can get involved in this semester. The next event will be on the 17th September, a special evening for new students, to make them feel welcome and to present to them CSC! First planning meeting Game preparations Elastic Band challenge Reunion students

CSC Prayer News

Here is the latest prayer update from CSC concerning the summer Formacion conference: Payer News

CSC Summer Camp 2014

From the 1st to the 8th of July the annual CSC summer English and Bible camp took place at Vadul lui Voda, a tourist resort just 20 KM from Chisinau on the banks of the Nistru river. A team of 9 staff and students from UCCF Northwest came to help at the camp by leading Bible studies which presented an overview of the Bible, by doing English lessons for the Moldovan students and just generally getting involved in the rest of the camp activities. There were around 30 Moldovan students at the camp, just over half of whom are students in Balti. The response to the camp and in particularly the Bible messages was positive from a number of the Moldovan students, a number of whom said it was the first time they have studied the Bible and asked at the end of the camp for a Bible so that they can continue to study at home. We aim to keep in touch with these students and invite them to our activities in September once the new university term here gets started. Many photos from the camp can be seen here: Summer camp

CSC News May 2014

Newsletter May 2014 by Aidan Patrick Benbow