Our History

The Ballarat CU began in 2018 as the Christian Union with a bible study on all three campus’ (ACU, Camp St and Mount Helen) and a city wide training night at ACU. Run by two AFES apprentices they quickly trained local students to lead the group and attended the first combined regional Vic Summit with Geelong and Bendigo.

Both ACU and Fed Uni clubs became official clubs and self-governed with the support of AFES staff from Geelong adopting the state CU logo. ACU changed their name to Christians on Campus (ConC) dues to ACU not letting cubs use the name union. Both committees had four members but combined as a committee of 8 to continue running Ballarat CU together.

Both groups renamed their groups to Christians @ Uni (CU) and adopted a Ballarat CU logo which incorporated the Eureka flag design.

After COVID-19, ACU CU could no longer fill all committee positions, so went into hibernation. After 14 years of hosting the city wide CU bible talks at ACU they were moved to Fed Uni, Mount Helen, Student lounge.

ACU CU became an official club again with a weekly bible study but it’s committee and their events ran independently from Fed Uni CU committee.

Both CU groups of Ballarat adopted the national branding of AFES groups.