Svitoglyad Christian School Begins New School Year

From Hope to People, dated July 28, 2022 (our partner in Ukraine)

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This school was founded three years ago. The great advantage of the school is that from a young age, the correct life values based on the Scriptures are formed in students. Mornings with the pastor, as well as lessons on Christian ethics, are held every week in Svitoglyad. Children and teachers are united in prayer for Ukraine, school, and families.

Last academic year, 50 children received the necessary knowledge at the Svitoglyad school, and at the end of the year, students from ten cities of Ukraine, where active hostilities are taking place, joined them.

There are art and music studios (tuning forks, bells, music band), a chess club, IT classes, robotics and Lego clubs, and the Art Attic Studio in the school.

The distinctive feature of the school is the camp Svitoglyad on Suitcases. Not only do students love it but also teachers. Why "on suitcases" though? Because it is not limited only to school classes. Even this year, we had the opportunity to travel and have fun together: we visited the zoo, played sports games, took part in master classes, etc.

The director of the school, Iryna Kurchenko, created a team of 20 dedicated workers who love God and the work they do. Together, we gained new experience, generated new educational ideas, worried about each other, and learned to smile and teach children during the day, when at night we ourselves sat next to anxious suitcases, took a prayer shield in our hands every day and stood in the gap for our country and its brave defenders. In the first days of the war, we hosted in schools' classrooms more than 300 refugees who fled their homes under the artillery shelling...

Today, we continue enrolling children in grades 1-5.

Pray that in the future, in times of challenges and struggles, we will continue to work, developing the school where not only the children from Rivne but also from Kharkiv, Mariupol, Donetsk, and other occupied cities can study. Pray for God-fearing and creative workers, because the harvest is great. Pray that the material and technical support of the school will be innovative and accessible to the modern student.