Region / Country: Eurasia

Moldova: hackathon

CSC Moldova students organised a three-day camp for students interested in digital technology. Christian students invited their classmates, and altogether more than 90 students attended! They worked in small groups to create digital programs and solutions for various technology projects. Many of the projects had a Christian emphasis. There were plenty of opportunities to share the gospel, both through working on the projects themselves, and also through interacting outside of sessions.

Prizes were awarded to the winning teams of the following projects:

  • Tackling Suicide — Can you use social media, digital ads and code to save them from death’s sting?
  • Breaking Christian Game Stereotypes — Simple fun smartphone game using biblical characters to break stereotypes.
  • Engagement Problem — Smartphone app which helps youth to be more organized and to connect with others.

CSC are praying that those who attended would join their new weekly IT club, so that they can continue to build relationships and share the gospel.

The camp was organised in partnership with Indigitous, an online ministry facilitating the design of innovative digital tools and resources for global mission.

The IFES Innovation Project supported this and many other student initiatives to share the gospel on campus in creative and innovative ways. Find out more about how IFES is supporting student evangelism around the world.

Pray for a student conference in Eurasia

The biggest challenge we face is engaging believing students. Many are the first generation of children from believing families; their parents came to faith in the 90s after communism. These students tend to be apathetic towards faith, but consider themselves Christians. Our longing is that their hearts would be set on fire to want to know Christ and share him on their campuses. They know they “should” – but before they learn how to, they have to want to. Our student conference later this month will focus on three topics: “I don’t want to …… pray, read my Bible, share the gospel”, and we’ll spend time looking at what the Bible has to say about these feelings.

We hope to have between 10 and 20 young people, mostly students and senior high-schoolers, but this depends on whether their pastors allow them to attend.

Please pray that:

  • students are able to come.
  • The Holy Spirit challenges them to want to know Christ, to read his word, to pray and to preach him to their friends.
  • As a result, we see a movement of students transformed by the gospel, eager to live lives that glorify Christ.
  • We meet a few male students keen to meet up for 1-to-1 discipleship.

Thanks for praying with us!