Posted in Church, Ecumenism, Europe, Youth, Youth Ministry, Youth participation on March 31, 2008 | No Comments »
From March 18 - 6 June in Wroclaw, Poland will take place ecumenical music workshops. The idea is to sing songs from different religion traditions. Four directors will try to lead this ecumenical choir through Jewish, orthodox, protestant and catholic traditional singing. Choir is meeting two times a week and it’s mainly for youth and [...]
Posted in Africa, Ecumenism, Justice, Youth participation, tagged Africa, ecumenical, peace, reconciliation, Rwanda on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
By George Arende
The Rwanda Youth Gathering opened today in a colorful ceremony presided over by Bishop George Kalisa of the Lutheran Church in Rwanda, at the Presbyterian centre Itito Isano.
Bishop Kalisa in his opening speech stressed the importance of the gathering since it brought together other youth from other countries. Bishop thanked the conveners [...]
Posted in Faith, Life on March 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Every group, business and organization in the USA seems to have a mission statement these days. It usually says something about what that organization is and what it does.
Since its beginning, the church has also had a sense of mission. Unfortunately, our understanding of mission has often not always been molded from the gospel, but from [...]
Posted in Ecumenism, Enviroment, UN, tagged UN, water, world water day on March 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today marks the UN World Water Day 2008 while 1.2 billion people worldwide lack access to safe drinking water.
The UN estimates that half of the world’s hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from water-borne diseases. As UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon says, ‘When you look at the health and development challenges faced by the poorest [...]
Posted in Life on March 18, 2008 | No Comments »
This is a time for silence…, to remember what Jesus has done on the cross. This is time to calm down all emotions… and busy doing…. to follow the way to the cross. This the time to forgive and to forget all heartsick, scare and painful mind, to have true-reconciliation with myself, others and also [...]
Posted in Life on March 18, 2008 | No Comments »
I know that the world celebrate Valentine’s day every on 14 Feb. maybe this is too late but I want to share this experience to you all.
Valentine’s Day
There are many stories about Valentine’s Day. But this is a phenomenon that almost the parts of the world celebrate Valentine’s Day every year. Some countries in Asia, [...]
Posted in Life on March 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Dust Wednesday
(Indonesia: Hari Rabu Abu)
We are HKBP as Lutheran never celebrates “Dust Day” or “Dust Wednesday”. But I do really interest in a celebration of Lutheran calendar which is called “Dust Day” and this celebration I experience when I was in Hong Kong. This celebration reminds me about the nature of human being who created [...]
Posted in Asia/Pacific, LWF, Youth participation on March 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Hello everyone…from THAILAND!!!We are the Asia-Pacific group in the leadership training program. We come from India, the Phillipines, Indonesia, Myanmar, Hong Kong, Australia, Bangkok and Israel. The training and staying at the Bangkok Christian Guest House in the centre of the big city!For the past two days we have gotten to know each other and learned [...]
Posted in Ecumenism, Youth on March 12, 2008 | No Comments »
During the Intern Retreat, We had a ‘Intercultural Talent Show’ performed by interns from all regions of the world.
What I chose to present was the Chinese calligraphy.
For about 3000 years, Chinese people were using a special kind of pen - usually made with a bamboo stick and hair from animals like wolves, along with the black [...]
Posted in Asia/Pacific, Church, Ecumenism, Faith, LWF, Life, Spirituality, Youth, Youth participation on March 10, 2008 | No Comments »
What is your calling?
Interns from YWCA, YMCA, WSCF, ACT, WCC and LWF spent three days last week in an Internship Retreat in Louverain, Switzerland.
During the Retreat, One of the major focus for us was to reflect on the callings God has given to us.
Facing the beautiful snow mountains, the lake, along with the birds’ singing, I [...]
