December 17, 2008 in Church, Enviroment, Justice, LWF, Youth, Youth Ministry, Youth participation
LWF Youth has put together a toolkit for youth groups, Sunday school etc. You can download it here or order it in paper. There is still much more information… Read the rest of this entry →
July 4, 2008 in Church, Life, LWF, Youth, Youth participation
I guess you have already read about the youth message on climate change - http://lwfyouth.org/2008/06/28/a-call-to-engage-climate-change/ - which was presented in the LWF Council Meeting during the opening hearing of climate change.
In the coming days, I am going to share with you all the stories I have heard from the participants of the Pre-Council Youth Workshop. Since there are too many stories, they will come one by one in a series.
Let’s begin with our youngest participant of the workshop - Hanitriniaina Nathalie Rahelimalala (We call her Nathalie), 19, a young lady from Malagasy Lutheran Church.
Nathalie is a university student studying Marketing and Banking. She lives with her parents and younger brother in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagarscar.
‘The situation in my country is that people do not know much about climate change. Some of them burn trees in order to create farmland or mistakenly think that it would make the land fertile. They don’t know it will contribute to climate change’, said Nathalie.
Nathalie has set 2 goals for herself for the next half of this year.
(1) Write a song carrying message about climate change.
(2) Plant Trees with her classmates in a Lutheran school where she learns English.
