What can I give of myself to others? How do I serve God and participate in society in the identity that I have? Those were some of the challenges the 16 participants and 30 team members and assistants posed to each other at the 12th annual Challenge camp that took place from 23 to 30 […]
In the morning of Sunday, January 13, there was lively movement in the Agenskalns Baptist Church, indicating that the service would be different. Not for the first time, to be true, because two Disability Awareness Sunday services have already taken place in this Church. Yet there were even more people in wheelchairs this Sunday, and […]
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We often anticipate something great in life – a great opportunity, a great wonder or a surprising turn. We focus so much on “something sometime” that we risk missing the opportunities and miracles God has hidden like precious pearls in our lives right here and now. In haste and routine, we forget that the greatest […]
Author: Jordi Torrents In week from 8 to 13 October Evangelical Europe Alliance (EEA) organized the Hope for Europe conference in Tallinn, Estonia. 370 representatives from 37 countries took part in it under the slogan United in diversity. The European Disability Network (EDN) coordinated a series of workshops in Tallinn about how the Christian community […]
From 30 June to 7 July, the 11th annual Challenge camp took place in Spāre, Latvia. The participants, assistants and the W4W team made up a camp family of nearly 50 people who, during the week, challenged and inspired each other in various fields. As many of the 12 participants were Christians already before the […]
Jordi Torrents The network of Christian ministries working for the inclusion of people with disabilities celebrated its tenth European gathering in Riga (Latvia) with the participation of 12 countries. Previous meetings had taken place in Switzerland (2001), Hungary (2002), Albania (2003), Spain (2004, although in this case it was only a meeting between representatives of […]
Disability Sunday Services or Diversity Celebration currently is a new tradition in Latvia, and many might not even have heard of it. However, we believe that ever more Christian churches will become interested in it and will become aware of necessity to hold such services. The first Diversity Celebration Service took place in Agenskalns Baptist […]
We have started 2018 with another long-nurtured idea: Disability Awareness Sunday Service. It is thus named by the initiators of the tradition elsewhere in the world, but we are considering the option to name it Diversity Celebration in Latvia. The main topic will remain the same: to emphasise that people with various disabilities are also […]