Having everything under control – Katerina cannot guarantee that with her program. But what she could do was very pleasant and encouraging: for two hours she became part of a group of teenagers and could speak to them from the heart and soul, which was very rare. Together they discussed what addiction is and how to resist it.
Wondering how teenagers tested their level of personal resilience and ability to work together? How does the figure of the teacher of nations, Jan Amos Comenius, relate to all this? Read more in the report on the program led by the Healthy Youth Worker Petra Dadakova.
The program about emotions for the ninth graders was surprisingly calm, informative and interactive. Everyone was eager to reflect on topics that they probably wouldn’t have chosen on their own. Viktoria managed to create a safe space in which everyone could work with their own emotions.
Local ministry background: Radmila grew up in an atheistic family, typical for the communist regime of that time. After the fall of communism, in 1993, she studied in the USA, where she signed up for the debate group ‘Questions over the Bible’ purely out of a desire to broaden her horizons and get a basic…
Local ministry background: Katerina was born into a Christian family. She regularly attended a Catholic church with her parents. She always believed that God existed. Only at youth meetings of the local evangelical church she discovered that she could and wanted to have a personal relationship with God. She became a believer in this congregation…
Local ministry background: Jana comes from a religious family. During her teenage years, she decided to give her life to God and was baptized. She actively participates in the activities of her home congregation. For years, she worked as an assistant of the pastor of her congregation. Since 2008, she has been cooperating with the…
Local ministry background: David grew up in a family of a preacher of Free Evangelical Church. He has always perceived faith as an important part of life. He surrendered his life to Jesus at a summer camp at the age of 12. He has been actively involved in serving children and youth since he was…
Local ministry background: Hana grew up in a non-believing family. In her third year of high school, she met a group of Christians and experienced a strong personal conversion to God, which gave direction to the rest of her life. Her home church became the Christian Fellowship church, where she, by the way, works with…
Local ministry background: Adriana comes from a nonbelieving family. She received the knowledge of God from her believing grandmother in her childhood, but God and faith were never openly discussed at home. She was invited to church by a friend she had met in high school. She began attending a drama club where they performed…
“When it gets rough…” in the Healthy Youth ministry, in personal life, in relationships… What to do when difficulties appear and everything does not go smoothly? How to find inner peace that we can pass on? We have been looking for answers to these questions too.
