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 and became its active member. Nowadays, she is involved in a number of activities here. She is a leader of a music worship band and is part of a team of youth leaders. She participates in the preparation of regular meetings and one-off evangelization events.

She has been working in the field of HY ministry since September 2023. She started her lecturing in a cooperation with the non-profit Christian organization called The Silesian Diakonia. Here she gained valuable experience and the necessary training, as well as the first contacts to potential candidates for HY programs. The project in which Katerina was involved was suspended, but Katerina wanted to build on her already well-established work in schools, so she decided to offer to schools her HY programs in cooperation with the INCZ from September 2024.
She offers a wide range of programs to support a good team, healthy lifestyle, mental health, healthy relationships and programs on the Internet.

As a part of her follow-up activities, Katerina is involved in a team that organizes leisure-time activities and one-off events for children and youth in the area.

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How she became a HY Worker:
Katerina has an extensive experience in ministry among children and youth. She works as a leader of leisure-time activities for children and youth in her hometown. Whether it’s regular meetings, summer camps, weekend trips or one-off special themed events.
She got to a HY ministry as if ‘by a chance’. She was looking for a change and working with children in the field of HY ministry seemed to her to be a meaningful and very interesting idea and a good opportunity for self-realization.

She herself wrote: “I see the HY ministry as part of my vocation to devote myself to young people and as a huge opportunity to pass on Christian values to them.
As a part of my work in schools, I would like to see a reduction in the incidence of negative and risky behavior among children.”

 

Program topics and resource:
Katerina offers well established programs of the non-profit organization she used to work for (called the Silesian Diakonia).

The individual topics are:
Our class = a great bunch
Being a good friend
Together we can do more
Where does the fun end? (bullying)
(Not) Listening (Doesn’t) Pay Off
Let’s Make the World Better
Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs or 7 Ways to Be Fit
This is where I live (addictions)
Who doesn’t drink, wins! (alcohol)
The message of smoke signals (smoking)
In a whirlwind of emotions
When I’m boiling inside myself or how to manage your aggression
How to burn and not burn out?
Adventure in the online world
On the waves of the online sea
When relationships hurt (bullying)
A class full of well-being
(Un)safe internet
Do I have it under control!? (dependencies)
To the bottom or on the bottom? (alcohol)
Different doesn’t mean weird
When I look at myself (eating disorders)
Let’s get to know each other
Loving relationships

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