Danil and Ksenia Chersunov

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Welcome to our ministry page!

We are Daniel and Ksenia Chersunov.

Our Story

I, Daniel, grew up in Kazakhstan and gave my life to Jesus when I was 16 in a Baptist church there. I moved to St. Petersburg to attend St. Petersburg Polytechnical University, where I earned both an undergraduate and graduate degree in technical physics.

Ksenia grew up in Siberia, Russia. She gave her life to Christ at a Christian summer camp when she was 20 and was involved into Campus Crusade for Christ ministry and after we decided to get married she moved to Saint Petersburg.

We met as student volunteers for CRU, fell in love, and were married in 2003. We now have six beautiful children: Vasilisa (15), Yegor (13), Sam (12), Leo (8), Demian (6) and Ioanna (2).

(Our family picture was taken in January 2021 in a photo studio, not our home. We live in a 700 sq feet apartment in St. Petersburg.)

Our Passion

Because of our own powerful experiences with CRU ministries during our college days, we have a continuing passion for reaching young people for Christ. We believe that changing students’ lives will change society eventually. Imagine if president of Russia had heard and received the Gospel when he was in school! How different Russia and the world would be today.

Our Experience

Although we began as volunteers, today we joyfully serve Jesus as staff missionaries with CRU. Ksenia, as a staff member, helped to develop online staff training. She worked full-time up until our fourth child was born. Today she supports me in my many responsibilities as Senior Team Leader. In St. Petersburg, I have been overseeing four staff members and 20 volunteers

Some of my responsibilities and activities include:

Direct and participate in evangelistic outreach efforts in public venues, including at 10 universities for 40,000 students in St. Petersburg, despite current "communist" government restraints.

Outreach efforts include 300 to 400 touch points per year through events, campus activities, annual winter Bible conference, informal open house meetings, online activities and teaching, explaine Gospel using “Four Spiritual Laws.”

Discover, train, and mentor new leaders through proven leadership development practices.

Develop and conduct online staff training Participate in and facilitate church services now held in St. Petersburg Christian University, an evangelical theological college founded in 1990--one of the first evangelical higher educational institutions to be established in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Our Current Situation

Although our hearts are full of love for the Russian people, with the advent of the war, aggressive military draft, and threat of 10-year prison sentence for dissenters, we feel we are no longer in a place where we can effectively minister going forward. Even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Ksenia and I were contemplating leaving Russia to serve in Europe. We both have experience in Hungary, where I spent a year in leadership development training, as well as ministry experience in Spain, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Estonia, and Georgia. We are praying for God’s guidance, and doors are opening in Europe, particularly in Spain.

Our Support Needs

Like many other missions organizations, Cru staff have the responsibility to develop a team of financial partners who provide the necessary funding for their outreach, including their salary and ministry related expenses. We estimate we will need USD$20,000 total to transition to Europe. We depend on our financial partners and hope you will prayerfully consider supporting us by clicking the “Give a Gift” button below. (Funding follows the staff members, wherever we serve with CRU, whether Russia, Spain, or as the Lord leads us.)

Thank you, and God bless you.

Our Contact Information If you have any questions about our ministry or want to receive our prayer letters - please contact us!

Our e-mail: dchersunov@gmail.com

Telephone: +7-911-039-16-40 (WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal)

You can also contact or follow us in these ways:

Facebook: http://facebook.com/daniel.chersunov

Ministry Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/spbmovement/

Our ministry blog: https://the-chersunov-family.epistle.today/

Website: https://campusministry5.blogspot.com/