For ten days in mid-July, a team of five students, two staff workers and one relay worker went out from the Central region to partner with the CU movement in a closed Eastern European country as part of UCCF’s annual summer team send-out.
This longstanding partnership, which involves the sharing of stories, ideas, encouragement and prayers between the two movements throughout the year, manifests most tangibly during the summer, when staff and students from both movements work, pray and worship together in the same place, united in the same goal of proclaiming the Lord Jesus Christ and helping university students to live for him alone.
Evangelism illegal
The Central region’s destination has to remain vague because evangelism in that country is illegal. The CU movement there is unregistered and underground. Staff workers and students have to be pioneering and creative in inviting unbelieving students to meet Jesus through his Word. This means that a week-long camp in the countryside during the summer offers a vital opportunity, away from the eyes of university and government authorities, to get Christian and non-Christian students together for a concentrated time of relationship building, Bible study and fun.
