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We are waiting and we are getting

Dear Friends,

Today I am very glad for our blog got a new comment. It was so special because it came from one of our kind friends in Solingen, He is Diotim. I had already waited for this moment when I wrote the posting “Sharring” and then i would get the one who had met us would write reply. now we get a little miracle that Diotim found our blog.

Here, I am writing and sending my  happiness to You all. to Wiwi who is in Tanzania, Doerthe who is in Holland, Uli, Paska in Papua, Thsephang and Judith in Africa, and Eilika in Germanya, and the others.

I wish that you will find this blog soon and join us to keep in touch.

I wish you (Daniel, Sarah, Rebecca, Louise, and the children in YFC 06) come in this blog ..

I am waiting for another little miracles.

God Blessing be with you all,

Agung

Solingen

Solingen is another city that we visited there because the kinder planet was run here. Hackausherhof is located in Solingen. It is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the northern edge of the region called Bergisches Land, south of the Ruhr area, and with a 2005 population of 162,685 is the second largest city in the Bergisches Land. It is a member of the regional authority of the Rhineland.
Solingen is called the “City of blades”, since it has long been renowned for the manufacturing of fine swords, knives, scissors and razors made by famous firms such as Wüsthof, J. A. Henckels, Boker, and numerous other manufacturers. Wilkinson is also based here.
Solingen lies southwest of Wuppertal in the Bergisches Land. The city has an area of 89.45 square kilometers (34.54 sq. miles), of which roughly 50% is used for agriculture, horticulture, or forestry. The city’s border is 62 kilometers (38.5 miles) long, and the city’s dimensions are 15.6 kilometers (9.7 miles) east to west and 11.7 kilometers (7.3 miles) north to south. The Wupper river, a right tributary the Rhine, flows through the city for 26 kilometers (16.2 miles). The city’s highest point at 276 metres (906 ft) is in the northern borough of Gräfrath at the Light Tower, previously the water tower, and the lowest point at 53 metres (174 ft) is in the southwest.
During our time in Solingen we spent it at the hachausherhof and visiting a church in langenfeld distric to have Sunday worship, and having time in a place called beer garden. It was a café that was located in the middle of small forest. We passed the small forest and wheat fields to reach there. We spent the time there to talk each other, playing billiard, and drinking beer. We attended the worship in an evangelical kirche in Rhineland (EkiR). There we also performed a vocal group of our team. We sang two songs in front of the audients.
There’re lots of memories with both the children and other participants that we got here. It was really wonderful memories. We will never forget Solingen.

Solingen Maps from Google:

Cologne

Cologne was a city we once spent our time there. One day we got chance to have exposure. Cologne had been chosen by UEM as the city we would visit. It caused by the reason that there’s a chocolate museum there beside the Rhein River, a famous river in Germany.

Because actually the topic of YFC was about chocolate as well, visiting Cologne was very useful for the participants to get to know the processing of chocolate.

Now let us tell give you a short story and information about Cologne.

Cologne or Koln (German Language) is the fourth largest (405,15 km²) cities in Germany after Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich. Cologne is also the sixteenth-biggest city in United European. It has 1.020.603 population.

In the German culture, cologne is well known for its beer called “kolsch”. We traveled from Wuppertal to Cologne by Train. It took 2 hours. First, we visited chocolate museum, It was nice experience to get to know the history of chocolate and the producing process. Later, we continued our exposure to visit Cathedral; it is also one of famous building in Germany. Here we also watched a replicate of David statue that well known for Michelangelo’s masterpiece.

Afterward, we enjoyed the daylight at the city center by watching some shows, having ice cream, and visiting some shops. We also still felt the atmosphere of Germany world cup 2006 here, because cologne was one of the hosts.

thus, our short story about cologne.

Warm regards,

YfC team.

Happy Birthday

Dear Doerthe,

Youth for children team would like to wish you

Happy Birthday to you

May the love of our Lord Jesus Christ and the guidance of the Holy Spirit will be abundantly graced unto you.

and may your dream come true, in every circumstances you will be able to face it with your faith in Jesus.

our supports, prayers, and wishes is always be with you all the time.

Wishes all the best,

YfC team

Preparation (The First Week in Wuppertal)

We started the YFC in wuppertal. we actually came in the same day however our friend, Paskalina came late because his document wasn’t complete yet. She came four days later. Our facilitators, Karin Guenter and Uli Baage had already waited for us. They welcame us happily.

During the first week, we spent the days by having many activities and sessions.

Knowing Each other

In this session we learn to know each others, not only by our name but also our character and personality too. In some early sessions we were still nervous. It’s hard to speak to them using English. Some times we lost our vocabularies and we couldn’t understand our friends’ spoken.

Different culture

The next session, we talked about our culture. Each of us told about our special cultures. Some of the topics that we discussed were about family, education, life philosophy, society rules. It was nice session. We could learn that there’s lots of different that we must deal with.

Living together in multicultural group

This session we were trained to build a good team work that have many differences.

Knowing more about Germany. This session was very useful for us who came from Asia and Africa. We learned about German Culture. Our facilitator told us lots of things about Germany. Then, we learned German language. Although in a short time and course, however we became more interested in learning German language. We learned some vocabularies and basic German grammar.

United Evangelical Mission – History & Work

We’re altogether in UEM office and listen to the speakers who are UEM Officer, he told us the history and work of the UEM. We also met some of the UEM staff there. They welcomed us nicely.

This session giving us lots of information and knowledge about UEM

Here was our experience in the museum of Evangelical. In the end of the session, the museum guardians invited us to enjoy one of the activities that they provide for the children. Although we were already young however we still enjoyed this activity. We made an animal face mask from paper. We spent about a half an hour to finish it. While we cut the paper and coloring, we had conversation. We talked about our experiences while we were working with the children in Sunday school, we also talked about our childish experieces.It was nice session we had in Wuppertal. We never forget it.

Woman Youth & Children Desk – Mission & Work

Mrs. Sonia Parrera Hummel, as the coordinator of Woman Youth & Children Desk – Mission & Work was the speaker of this session. She welcomed us gladly. She gave us lots of information about Woman youth, and children Desk. She motivated us to give the best in Youth for children, to do the follow up for our church after the program finished, and the most she gave lots of wise advices to keep in faith as Christians.

We thank you so much for the time we spent with her and for her trust in us to do the program. here some information that i can tell you and remind our team that there were lots of great moments in every second we spent together with.

Yours,

Youth for children 2006 participants

The Team

There were seven young men joined YfC that were sent by their own church. The participants from Indonesia were Wiwi, Paskalina and Agung. The participants from Germany are Doerthe and Eilika. The participants from Africa are Judith and Tshephang.

Each of us came from different church. Let me describe you about our profiles.

Agung kristianto is 23 Years Old now. He was a student of Diponegoro University , Semarang at that moment. He has some talents that were useful during the programs. He plays guitar and piano. He is nice person. He comes from Semarang ,central java, Indonesia. He is a Sunday school teacher in his church. He is now working as computer teacher in an elementary school in Semarang.

Wiwi Diana Damanik is 26 years old now. She is from Pematang Siantar, North Sumatera, and batak tribe. She is nice person. She likes singing. She was still in college student at that moment. However right now she is working in the synod of GKPS the church where she belongs to. She is also involved in Youth and Sunday school ministry in her church.

Paskalina Ribka Thesia is 22 Years old now. She was born in Jayapura. She was still a college student at that moment. She is also nice person. She lives in Jayapura, West Papua, Indonesia. She belongs to GKI Papua. She likesmusic. She is doing the Sunday school and youth ministry in her church.

Judith Kemirembe is 24 Years old now. She comes from Tanzania, a country in South Africa. She was quite person but nice to talk to her. She worked as kindergarten teacher. She is also involved in Sunday school ministry in her church. She can dance very well. She belongs to ELCT-NWD which is a Lutheran church in Tanzania.

Tshephang He is 24 years old right now. He comes from Botswana, a country in South Africa too. He was nice, humble, and humorist person. He could make us smile and laugh. He likes singing. He was also an choir master in his church ELCB, a Lutheran church in Bostwana. He is the committee member of ELCB. The children in kinder planet were happy to meet him.

Doerthe Trauthig is now 21 Years old, a pretty young girl from Germany.  She was still in Senior high school student at that moment. She is nice person. She told us lots of things about German culture. She helped us very much during the kinder planet while we must communicate to the children. She lives in Neuwied, a small city in Germany, she belongs to EKiR , a protestant church in Germany.

Eilika Stein is now 24 years old. She is nice person. She helped us very much too during the Kinder Planet program and the preparation. She iscalm, however she likes joke too. She is already finish her study in school and worked in handicap school. She belongs to EKvW, a protestant church in Germany. she is now studying in a university in Germany.

sponsors

Youth for Children 2006 is sponsored by UEM (United Evangelical Mission), Hackhauserhof, and the church’s participants. UEM was responsible for the financial that needed by the participants. Flight ticket, health insurance, living cost, document, and the others accommodation were handled by them.

Hackhauserhof which held the kinder planet also became our sponsor. They provided us all the material we needed during the program. They provided us comfort living. They also allowed us to use all their facilities.

Our church which trusted us to join the program was also one of the sponsors of Youth for Children 2006. During the preparation our church helped us so much, mostly for the participants from Africa and Asia. The church helped me to get passport and visa. They also gave us some short course about German culture. They support us to prepare all the things we would bring.

thus, a brief description about our sponsors. we thank to them so much for their supports.

Articles

this page gives you some articles that we made

Two years later…08.08.08

Oh, you’re thinking back,
you’re going back to places
that you’ve been,
Where days could last forever,
but you can only dream,
Oh, we’re going back I’m
looking back to places that
we’ve seen,
Moments that have been, places we can dream.

by FEEDER: Summer’s gone

That’s how I feel. Miss you all very much! Kind regards from Holland!