Local ministry background:
Ivona became a believer while she was studying in the medical high school. It was also at that time that she experienced God’s calling to children’s ministry. She is an active member of the Silesian Evangelical Church of Augsburg Confession (SCEAV) in her home town. She is involved in leading the Sunday school for children and preparing camps and events for children.

Under the auspices of her home congregation, she teaches religion and Christian education in elementary and nursery schools. Programs are conducted in the form of regular weekly meetings within a club or optional Christian Education class, which children always properly register for at the beginning of the school year.

The main focus of the regular meetings is talking over a Bible story, prayer, and songs. The lesson is always accompanied by games and competitions where the children can playfully review and experience the biblical truths discussed earlier.
The goal of the programs is to show children that they can come to God at any time and with anything and that God loves them. Ivona also motivates the children to want to apply what they hear in the lessons to their own personal lives.
In 2022, programs were held in 20 groups of children in almost every elementary and nursery school in Ivona’s home town and surroundings. A total of 180 children were involved in the groups.

Following the classes, Ivona co-organizes a wide range of Christian activities and programs for children under the auspices of the local church SCEAV where she is a member: e.g. residential and suburban camps, weekend events for youth, sports, music and creative clubs, etc.

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How she became a HY Worker:
Ivona has been working as a catechist in her home church since 1996. She has been teaching religion and Christian ethics to children from 4 to 13 years old and even after all these years she finds working with children fulfilling and fun.
She started to work as a catechist right after her studies. She graduated from the Bible College in Olomouc, the pedagogical minimum at the University in Olomouc and practical theology at the mission school in Heiligenkreutz, Austria.

 

Program topics and resource:

For her ministry Ivona uses primarily the sets of lessons of Christian teaching from the Children’s Mission and from the non-profit organization TIM 2.2.
She also creates her own work sheets prepared especially for the individual groups of children.

Feedback

“Mrs. Ivona has been teaching evangelical religion and Christian ethics in our school for over 20 years.
As a directon of this school, I can confirm from our experience the positive benefits of teaching religion and Chrisitan ethics to our pupils. The HY Worker does a good and beneficial job, she approaches the children with kindness and professionalism. Through her work, pupils develop important values and attitudes that are part of a general cultural outlook. She promotes the development of empathy, tolerance and respect for others and their differing views.
At the same time, it contributes to the all-round development of our pupils and helps them to better navigate in today’s multicultural world.”

A director of primary school and kindergarten

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