I am now in a meeting of an exchange programme partners in Norway.
The exchange programme is called Team Nettwork.
It is a part of NMS (The Norwegian Missionary Society) programme.
I have been here, in place called “Hald Internasjole Senter” since last Sunday.
We are at least 12 people from 12 different countries in the world such as Peru, Bolivia, [...]
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Posted in Africa, Asia/Pacific, HIV/Aids, Latin America/Carribean, Life, UN, Youth, Youth participation, tagged advocacy, AIDS, international meetings, Mexico, Youth, Youth participation on February 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As the first International AIDS Conference (IAC) ever held in Latin America, the XVII Mexico International AIDS Conference, “AIDS 2008″ will bring together 25,000 researchers, decision-makers, and advocates from around the world to collaborate and share in an effort to strengthen our global responses to HIV and [...]
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Posted in Asia/Pacific, Church on February 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Beijing’s gigantic new airport terminal will be open on Friday, well ahead of the Olympics games held in August. The new terminal is described as the biggest building in the world, and is even larger than all the terminals of London Heathrow Airport put together.
The Great Game is a source of great pride to the Chinese. Meanwhile, the [...]
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Posted in Ecumenism, Youth on February 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Many hugs, many goodbyes. As I accompanied the last two stewards to the airport in the Sunday evening. Nearly all my friends who were with me in the three-week long World Council of Churches stewards programme have left Geneva. I begin to miss them very much.
Three of us, Roger, Rolita and I took part in the WCC stewards programme [...]
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Posted in Life, North America on February 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Presidential election fever has hit the United States. Record numbers of people are coming out to vote in the primary election (in the US, we have two elections- a primary, where people of the same party run against each other to see who will represent that party, and a general election, where the winners of [...]
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Oumou Toure from Guinea did not want her two year old daughter Fanta to suffer the same treatment she experienced herself at the age of 19: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), also known as Female Genital Cutting (FGC). For several months she was facing deportation from Canada to her home country Guinea. But finally in July [...]
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Posted in Youth participation on February 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The officers of the National Youth Department in the Malagasy Lutheran Church had a meeting in Fianarantsoa last February 7-8, 2008. The purpose of the meeting was to prepare for the big youth gathering, which will happen in August 2009 in Fort-Dauphin. This gathering, which we call «Zaikabe», happens every three years. And this one [...]
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ONE WEEKEND OVER 30 NATIONS UNITE IN PRAYER TO SUPPORT PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS!
Shockwave is a global event which will take place between 29 February - 30 March. The idea is to unite in prayer during one weekend for persecuted Christians all over the world.
“On the first [...]
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Posted in Youth on February 6, 2008 | 7 Comments »
The exciting LWF youth internship program has just kicked off!!
Two LWF interns this year - Rolita Machila from Africa and Francis Chan from Asia - would like to take this opportunity to greet all of you who are reading the Youth Blog.
A picture is worth a thousand word to introduce ourselves. Here is the photo we have taken together [...]
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Lydia Fong is a participant of the Asian Group of Engage: LWF Global Training for Young Leaders. She prepared this prayerful reflection.
The thematic focus of the program is the same as for the LWF General Assembly 2010. It is one line from the Lord’s Prayer: “Give us today our daily bread.”
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