Hanspeter Nüesch, Director of Campus für Christus Switzerland, lectured on societal developments and the christian response to it. Here are some of his remarks, mixed with some of mine: We live in a high tech, fast moving, information-overloaded, pluralistic society. Alltogether we can state that it suffers from two megatrends: a lack of love (a love deficit) – people yearn for devotion, intimacy a lack … Lees verder High touch – an answer to High tech

Yesterday night I returned from Switzerland. I was invited to join the leadership of Campus für Christus (Agape’s sister-ministry) in a two-day retreat. CfC Switzerland is in many ways similar to Agape NL, so Hans thought is was a good idea to visit them and to see what and how they have done things. It was an interesting experience, I must say. We gathered in … Lees verder Swiss retreat

Blogger put a new ‘NavBar’ on top of my page without telling me… it messed it all up. I changed my template, but there are still a couple of minor issues to solve. Any suggestions on the template are welcome! Lees verder Messed up blog

Next week I’ll be in Germany (the Agapè European Headquarters) and Switzerland to meet with some of the leaders and colleagues there. Tuesday and Wednesday I will be joining the Swiss leadership retreat as a guest. That will be interesting, since my Schweizerdeutsch is not my native tongue, to say the least… But I guess I’ll manage. I will also be introduced into some new … Lees verder Preparing for Germany

Just read that the dutch ‘Skinny Anonymous’ wants to have the Dutch word for slender or meager out of the dictionaries because it would be offensive to skinny people. What a ridiculous idea! I am almost 2 meters tall (almost 6 ft 8) and only 75 kgs (165 pounds), so I guess you can call me skinny. I have never felt insulted or offended in … Lees verder Slender / meager

Yes, we’re back after a good 3 weeks of holiday. We had a great time in France: perfect weather, nice camping, plenty of time to do nothing. Today I got back in the office. It was closed during our vacation, so I didn’t miss a lot of things. The mailman had brought good and bad news while we were out: we (Agape) seem to be … Lees verder We’re back

Yes, tomorrow is the big day: we are going on holiday! We have packed the caravan, cleaned the house and are praying for better weather. We are going to Normandy, France for two weeks with my parents’ trailer. I hope to finish a couple of books I already started and to read a couple of new ones. But most of all I hope for a … Lees verder Holiday

Today we got a letter from the lady we stayed with in Erdenet, Mongolia in 2001. It turns out she is going to be in fulltime ministry with Mongolia Campus Crusade for Christ! Great news.   Funny: she has to raise her own support like we do. Small difference: she needs $ 60 a month and we need… welll, a lot more 🙂 Lees verder Mongolian CCC

Cool stuff: w.bloggar. If you see this post, w.bloggar works… It is an ‘interface between you and your blog’, as their website says. It seems to work pretty cool, much easier to upload pictures and format a post. No need to login on (in my case) blogger.com, once you have the account in place, double click the icon and there you go.Maybe this helps me … Lees verder w.bloggar

Some of you know we have something with November. So, you can imagine I have this site in my Favorites… Lees verder Is it November?