Transform 2010 Bosnia - Restoring Hope of the Youth in Bosnia: Bosnia & Hercegovina
Transform 2010 (www.transform.om.org) is a unified effort around the Mediterranean to create momentum for the Gospel by mobilizing people and training them in telling their personal God story.
Alongside local believers, we will be reaching out to teens and youth in Bihac. This includes special programs, visiting locals, building friendships and sharing the life-giving story of hope.
| Dates: | Mon 19 Jul 2010 – Mon 09 Aug 2010 |
| Apply by: | Mon 19 Apr 2010 |
| Cost: | 1,040 USD (participants from United States) |
| Ages: | 18-70 |
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Ministry Details
19th to 24th July - central conference in Rome, Italy
24th July - travel from Rome to Bihac-Bosnia
24th July to 9th August outreach in Bihac
Participant Profile
We are looking for people who are self-activators finding ways to meet young people in town, building relationship with them, creating events to invite them to. People willing to help with follow-up as well, staying in touch with the young people after they leave through facebook, emails, messages, etc.
Accommodation: Participants will stay in a local guest house.
Food: Food will be provided.
Travel: You need to book and pay for your own travel to Rome on the 19th July. Rome to Bosnia on 24th July back home on the 9th August.
How to find us: The conference will take place in a hotel in Pomezia, just outside the city of Rome. Detailed information how to get there from airports or the train station will be given to you by your local OM Office.
Health: Participants will be spending a lot of time outdoors and moving around. Team members need to be ready to endure hot weather and lots of walking.
Visa: Countries within Europe and North America do not need visa. Please contact us if you live outside these areas to check for visa requirements or check it with the Bosnian Embassy in your home country.
Stories from Bosnia & Hercegovina
Nothing is too hard for me (17-Mar-2010) A poem by Jael Puusaag from her book "My God is smiling at me!" published in 2008.
Broken Bosnia in our hands... (26-Nov-2009) The Evangelical churches of Bosnia-Herzegovina organise joint summer camps every year. This summer, OMers joined in the camp with a group of believers from their churches.
God translated my sentence to a dog! (26-Nov-2009) How a local believer experiences God's protection while going distributing literature in a village near Bihać
How house churches grow (26-Nov-2009) Maria has lived in the same place for the past 30 years. She has raised her children there, lived through the war there, and now lives her retired life there. Last year a house church began to meet in her apartment. It consisted of only two women and an OMer.
"I watched them pray at every meal..." (26-Nov-2009) Four Americans came for a short-term outreach to Bosnia-Hercegovina. They spent a few days in Sarajevo and some days in Bihać. Their main focus was to encourage and help local believers. To do that, they taught a series of five seminars about the foundational parts of the Christian life: worship, loving God and others, serving God, prayer and sharing the Gospel. Many people were blessed and challenged by what they said. Their passion for Jesus touched the hearts of the listeners!
The Gospel of Mark into 1200 homes (26-Nov-2009) The team in Bihac, Bosnia-Herzegovina had a summer team from Northern Ireland. One thing that the summer team did was to hand out the Gospel of Mark in town.
School Bags and an Unusual Item (23-Nov-2009) In July OM EAST delivered not only schoolbags, typical school supplies and some money for more supplies to the OM Team in Bihac, Bosnia but also one unusual item…
500 instead of 400 schoolbags (14-Oct-2009) OM East and local chruches bring school materials and God's love to children in Bosnia.
Beautiful packages for 2300 kids (15-Feb-2009) OM team in Bihac, Bosnia-Heryegovina distributed 2300 Samaritan's Purse gifts to 2300 students and teachers in a neigboring town
2008 year of prayer (20-Jan-2009) Believers gathered for a prayer conference in December to sum up the 2008 Year of Prayer.
OM Bosnia prayer update January 2009 (16-Jan-2009) OM Bosnia has finished the year of prayer, distributed Samaritan's Purse gift-boxes to children, started a new team and welcomed new team-members
OM Bosnia Prayer update (17-Oct-2008) OM Bosnia praise and prayer update. Short stories about what God has done in the last couple of months
God's love packed in a schoolbag (Sep-2008) OM Bosnia finds a way to distribute school supplies, schoolbags and tracts to Muslim school children.
OM Bosnia prayer update summer 2008 (21-Jul-2008) bi-monthly praise and prayer update of OM Bosnia. Security: N- no restrictions
Prayer Conference in Sarajevo (4-Jul-2008) The second prayer-conference of the Year of Prayer for Bosnia-Herzegovina took place in Sarajevo, June 20-22,2008. 200 people gathered to pray
Creative arts in the park of Bosnia (1-Jul-2008) Combined teams of Artslink, Dancelink, and a drama+music-team of one American church doing a creative outreach in the public park of Bihac, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Praying for their nation (18-Feb-2008) At the end of January, the first national prayer conference for the Year of Prayer in Bosnia Hercegovina was held in the city of Mostar.
Year of prayer for Bosnia (21-Jan-2008) 2008 has been declared a year of prayer for Bosnia Hercegovina.
A reading cafe in Dobrinja (11-Dec-2007) The opening of the reading room in Dobrinja, a suburb of Sarajevo, where OM is doing church planting.
How the yellow pages destroyed community (11-Dec-2007) a short story about Bosnian culture
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