Student camp in Carpathians

The Education Department of the International organization "Hope to People" and the Second Presbyterian Church of Memphis, organized a Christian camp for students and orphanage graduates from Rivne region, involving students from Colomya (01/07/13 - 01/14/13).

The camp was held in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. Forty people stayed in the quiet village as a Christian family. There were students from Kyiv, Rivne, Zdolbunov, Colomya, Ostroh, and orphanage graduates from Klevan, Mizoch and Alexandria. The team prepared a camp program "Find your own way." Anatoly Pischalyuk and John Whittemore were preaching about Christmas, the life of Jesus Christ in the Gospels, who is God? Who is a man? Where did he come from? Where is he going? Who is a Christian? What is a sin? What is written in the Bible? Find your way (John.14:6). How to follow Jesus Christ?

What teachers believe in?

Berdyansk, Zaporozhye, Rivne region teachers came to the camp "Foundations of Faith", which was organized and held by the education department of IPO "Hope to People" together with a team from the Second Memphis Presbyterian Church from the 9^th through 15^th of July.

The camp was designed to develop strong relationships with teachers in Ukraine’s schools. Through these relationships, we will continue to spread Christian values in the education system, assist teachers in understanding the Word of God, as well as influence students, parents and their teachers’ colleagues. We can fully support teachers in expanding the subject of "Christian Ethics", help the teachers to prepare their lessons and extracurricular activities with students and their parents, and expand cooperation with the Institute of Postgraduate Education. In camp teachers were able to share their experiences on the subject "Christian ethics".

To teach Christian ethics is school, one has to have a solid foundation of faith. The seminar “Foundations of Faith” teaches Christian doctrines on the topics: the Bible, sin, salvation, the second coming of Christ, angels, demons, Satan, and life after death.

Who is God?

How would you describe God? Is He intimidating? Is He Almighty? Is He Creator? If you do not understand His nature you don’t really know God. Besides, God longs to be known as He truly is. The seminar “God wants for you to see Him” covered seven attributes of God. During the seminar, students started to get to know the true God and His purpose for each person. Their prayers have changed and in addition, we believe, their understanding of the world has been reshaped.

From July 23 to 29, the education department of IPO “Hope to People” organized the camp “Pearl” for students, who are orphanage graduates. During the camp study, students discussed seven attributes of God: kindness, sovereignty, holiness, wisdom, justice, love, and faithfulness.