[by Renate Lamparter] Have trolley, will travel Not long ago I acquired a ‘shopping’ trolley. It is really practical for a religious education teacher who has so much in the way of supplies to take to school. Now that we…
[by Annette Hartman] Integration!?! Have I become Belgian by now? This is a live issue for me as someone from Holland who’s been trying to integrate into the Belgian culture for the past 18 years. I only have to open…
[by Wendy Bartel, trainee at the BEM mission post in Gembloux] Frankly, I did not expect that learning a second language would influence such a broad spectrum of my life. Neither did I expect that learning a second language would…
[by Ruth Trump, BEM mission post in Philippeville] How do we share our faith with our unbelieving neighbours when they show no interest in spiritual matters at all? I’m blessed with good neighbours here in our village: two are of…
[by Fokkeline Maeyens] It was the morning of a weekday that promised to be very busy. I took my coffee and went out to sit in the sun on the terrace to relax a while. I was thinking about my…
[by Eunice Parodi, BEM public relations] To be taken with a pinch of salt! There are those who love Christmas celebrations, and there are those who can’t understand why ever people are making such a fuss/. I’m sure I don’t…
[by Lyssa Bode, bookseller in Genk] If the train is full of students with their suitcases, it must be Friday! This phenomenon greeted me on my commutes from Brussels to Genk; where I got on at Centraal or Noord, I…
[by Ciara Goossens, BEM Public Relations] Before I come to the choice of a name for this magazine, just a recap for new readers: Ralph and Edith Norton were the founders of the Belgian Evangelical Mission (1919), the organisation that…