Posted in LWF, Life on November 30, 2007 | No Comments »
She was 6 years and a homeless dog. We took her from the street, scared and dirty. She used to seat in a very particular way on our car seat, with her two frontal legs in the middle of the frontal seats and the other ones on the back seat. She always wanted to be aware of what [...]
Posted in Life on November 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
There are so many good resources and new developments in the world wide web. But it is so hard to follow. A great way of keeping track is using RSS or real simple syndication. So you can subscribe to the rss-feed of lwfyouth.org and get updates when we publish new posts.
Tim has published a very [...]
Posted in Church, HIV/Aids, Justice, LWF, Poverty, Poverty/Affluence, Youth, Youth Ministry, Youth participation on November 28, 2007 | No Comments »
During this week, a small group of people from all regions gather here in Geneva to talk about a handbook on diakonia. Diakonia is a Greek word and means “service”. In the New Testament, it is often used when Christian love becomes practical. Acts 6 tells the story from the first church in Jerusalem [...]
Posted in Justice, Middle East on November 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Only 45 minutes from my home, in Annapolis, Maryland, leaders from Israel and Palestine, along with ministers from other states, will meet and begin their conference on the future of Palestine and Israel and the entire region. The expectations for this meeting are low, but the hope is that this will help jump start a new round [...]
Posted in Church, Ecumenism, Faith, LWF, Youth, Youth Ministry, Youth participation on November 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Christians have been praying for unity for a long time. Since 100 years, they do that during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, for example. In January, people from different Christian churches celebrate worship services together and do even daily prayer.
The 100th anniversary was for LWF Youth a reason to join with many other [...]
Posted in Church, Ecumenism, Europe, Faith, Life, Spirituality, Youth, Youth Ministry, Youth participation on November 19, 2007 | 3 Comments »
This morning, the chapel in the Ecumenical Center had unusual visitors. Every weekday morning, we gather here at 8.30 to have a short time of worship together. And people from many different organizations, Christian traditions and from all continents come. But today, there were 15 men in white robes sitting on the floor in the [...]
Posted in Africa, Church, Ecumenism, Faith, LWF, Spirituality, Youth, Youth participation on November 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Last week, the Global Christian Forum met for the first time on the global level in Nairobi, Kenya. It was quite an achievement. It brought together people from faith traditions who in many cases do not speak to each other: Roman Catholic and Pentecostal, Historic Protestant (like Lutherans) and Evangelical. I think it is not [...]
Posted in Africa, UN, Youth, Youth Ministry, Youth participation on November 15, 2007 | No Comments »
Already buried by many others is a post by Emily about a UN initiative on youth and media. Now a friend from Nigeria is looking for contacts to film a documentary. Please check it out here:
http://lwfyouth.org/2007/06/19/un-plan-focuses-on-youth-media-migration/
Posted in LWF, Youth, Youth Ministry, Youth participation on November 13, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Yes, I am on Facebook, too. I am not very active and I am certainly a late adopter, but now I have my profile. And, yes, it is nice to see the faces of the people that I have so little chance to see in person.
Social networking is a fascinating tool to keep in touch [...]
Posted in Church, Ecumenism, Faith, Latin America/Carribean, Spirituality, Youth participation on November 13, 2007 | No Comments »
A text by Thomas Kang from Brazil:
Twenty-five years ago, in the midst of political turbulences during the last years of the Brazilian military dictatorship, the National Council of Christian Churches (CONIC) was founded in 1982.
Nowadays, six churches are full members of CONIC: the Roman Catholic Church (Brazilian Conference of Bishops), the Christian [...]
