Historymaker (HM) is the annual youth conference for students from across British Columbia and the Yukon. We were involved in the planning and organizing of HM in May of 2008 and figured since we were in BC for this one, we’d get involved. It’s not very often that we are in Canada to assist Canadians… Read More Historymaker 2010 : Fearless
2,600 kilometers in 8 days. Here is the visual: we’re driving a Plymouth Breeze, How to Learn Polish tapes (yes, an actual cassette) playing loudly, windows down, hair blowing in the wind, cooler full of V8 and nuts in the back – for almost 40 hours! Every 2 years PAOC has a General Conference where… Read More General Conference 2010
With a total of 96 dead, Poland’s political, military and religious infrastructure has been left with a large gaps. With funerals still pending and bodies still being identified, Polish officials are already working on filling in these leadership voids. Elections are expected to take place in mid-June. Imagine how different Poland will be as a… Read More What Comes After a Tragedy
Today a plane carrying the Polish President and 80 other prominent government officials crashed in Russia while making their way back to Warsaw to mark the 70th anniversary of the Katyn Massacre (where thousands of Poles were killed by Soviet forces during WWII). The Polish Prime Minister has declared this the greatest national tragedy since… Read More Tragedy in Poland
The Klokočinský jarmok (Klokočina Fair) is one of the 3 largest annual events in Nitra and it is estimated that 10,000 people attend each year. The I Love my City team went bright and early (like very early) on Saturday morning to clean the entire fair grounds of Friday’s garbage. The organizers were shocked that… Read More I Love my City Report – Klokočina Fair and Kids Programs
Making a visible impact on the city was a high priority but having points of connection was equally as important. We built in times where people from the teams and people from Mozaika could build relationships with people from the community. We ran ads in the local newspaper, put posters on doors, had posters placed… Read More I Love my City Report – Connecting Points
Komunitné Centrum (literally Community Centre) is an organization that serves as host to several social programs housed in one building. With their municipal funding completely cut over a year ago, the two directors have faced many challenges to keep the facility running. Located in Klokočina, Nitra’s most populous sector, this facility is surrounded by apartment… Read More I Love my City Report – Work Project
The kids camp, entitled “A Journey Full of Adventure”, ran daily from Monday to Friday. The core team running the camp were people from Mozaika. Each day some of the Canadians helped out and did English lessons. Attendance peeked at just over 30 children, which is excellent seeing as Mozaika is 50 people. It was… Read More I Love my City Report – Kids Camp
As this is being written we have unleashed the teams for the Amazing Race: Nitra Edition. We’re hoping they have lots of fun and become more familiar with the city (we’re also hoping we see them again in a few hours). After all of this planning, praying, and organizing, it is all happening and Thursday… Read More I Love my City – it’s go time!
With all the big things in place, these past weeks have been full of details. Our days have sped by propelled on little detailed-sized rockets! Tonight marks the start of our week of prayer. With teams arriving at the end of this week and the I Love my City project beginning on Saturday, Mozaika will… Read More I Love my City Prayer Week
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