Posted in Life on October 26, 2007 | No Comments »
“Recipes to be a beautiful Woman”
In talking about beauty, I think every woman loves to listen about. There are some articles in the newspaper or magazine that present some recipes how to be a beautiful lady. Of course it is not easy to get the beauty like the artist because we need to spend much [...]
Posted in Life on October 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
“Idul Fitri 1428H”
Moeslim is the majority religion in Indonesia. This year, they celebrated Idul Fitri 1428H (Hijriah) exactly on 13-14 October 2007. There were some activities that they usually do. During one month before Idul Fitri, they are fasting. At the night before the day of Idul Fitri, they are moving around the down town [...]
Posted in Faith, Justice, Life on October 24, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Why should I care about human rights abuses in a country far, far away? Why should I care about human rights abuses in my own country if they aren’t directed at me?
Many of us have probably heard faithful people ask these questions, whether it be about Sudan, Palestine, or Burma, to name a few. Maybe [...]
Posted in Asia/Pacific, Church, Ecumenism, Faith, LWF, Youth, Youth Ministry, Youth participation on October 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
How can young people change their churches? What can they contribute? What is really important to them? How can they learn to gather other young people to effect change?
“Engage: LWF Global Training for young leaders” is going to address these questions and hopefully answer a few. The program will work with the theme of the [...]
Posted in Asia/Pacific, Church, Ecumenism, Enviroment, Faith, Justice, Life, Poverty, Poverty/Affluence, Youth, Youth participation on October 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A few days ago, I visited India and participated in an National Ecumencial Youth Workshop “Youth, Dignity and Spirituality” in Jeypore, Orissa. I was the first time in India and it is really a fascinating country (I even gained some weight because of the great food).
Angelious Michael, the energetic youth secretary of the Jeypore Evangelical [...]
Posted in Africa, Asia/Pacific, Church, Ecumenism, LWF, Latin America/Carribean, Life, Youth, Youth Ministry on October 18, 2007 | No Comments »
It was an exciting process. During the last two weeks my colleagues and I were browsing to a lot of good applications for the internship in the Lutheran World Federation for 2008. It was a tough call to make but now it is decided. We are going to have three interns:
- Rolita Machila from Zambia [...]
Posted in Church, LWF, Youth, Youth Ministry, Youth participation on October 3, 2007 | 4 Comments »
This week, we sent out invitations to the member churches of the LWF to nominate Youth Liaisons. There were youth liaisons to the LWF for quite some time. The original idea was to have somebody the LWF Youth Desk can send letters to directly and this person would be responsible to share this information with [...]
