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 Church, Ecumenism, Europe, Faith, Life, Youth, Youth Ministry, Youth participation on March 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From April 6 - 13 in Katowice, Poland starts an event called ProChrist an evangelistic ministry started in 1993 in Essen, Germany as a result of a Billy Graham Crusade there. ProChrist is organized in Poland for the first time. In the past ProChrist was transmitted form Germany. This year ProChrist will be aired daily [...]
Posted in Ecumenism, Faith, Poverty/Affluence, Youth Ministry, Youth participation on February 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
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, [...]
Posted in Church, Faith, Life, Youth, Youth Ministry, Youth participation on February 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Africa, Youth Ministry, Youth participation on February 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Two workshops on Christian music were held within the National Youth Department of the Malagasy Lutheran Church in Madagascar. The two workshops took place successively in Antananarivo at the National Youth Centre on January 15-18 and in Antsirabe at the regional Youth Centre on January 28-31. Forty participants were present to each workshop and most [...]
Posted in Church, Enviroment, Justice, Poverty, Poverty/Affluence, Youth, Youth Ministry, Youth participation on December 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The conference in Bali is over and everybody is relieved that it did not end in a disaster. But as expected, the outcome was thin. The only result was that there is now a timetable until when the follow-up agreement after the Kyoto protocol shall be finalized.
Therefore, it is important to keep up the pressure. [...]
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 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, 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/
