Dear Brothers,     It is our sad duty to inform you about the passing away of Mr. Ger Verwer on October 19, 2019.   Gerardus Cornelis Nicolaas Lucretia Maria Verwer   He was born on 10 April 1947 in The Hague. He has been assosicated member of the FIC in The Netherlands since 16 September 2006. He passed away on 19 October 2019 in The Hague.   The funeral service ....

Report of Wednesday, 16 October 2019 Leadership Workshop and Congregational Conference 2019 All too soon, the two-week journey has reached its end. The weather looks quite bright but still cloudy with intermittent appearance of the sun. In our morning prayer, Bro. Theodorus Suwariyanto led the group in a reflective prayer with the theme “Protecting their heritage”. Many were in the departure mood, but not until the conference was officially declared closed. With this in mind, we gathered for the wrapping up and ....

Report Monday, 14 October 2019. This day was the first day of the Congregational Conference. On the agenda were the provincial reports of the different FIC provinces and of the Religious House of the Netherlands (RHN). Each province / RHN gave his report about the following topics: -        The developments in the province / RHN during the last year (2018 – 2019), -        The important themes / challenges, -        The joys and worries, -        Recommendations / decisions of the provincial chapter or RH conference and the ....

Report Leadership Workshop/ConCon 15 October 2019. [Raphael Besigrinee] The business of today comprises five main topics, namely formation issues, FIC gift policy, constitutional regulations, communication policy and financial matters. The brothers from the RHN led the morning prayers in which we reflected on the theme "Wisdom and Knowledge". We asked for God's wisdom using the beautiful prayer of king Solomon for the day's deliberations. Armed with God's wisdom, we started with formation issues in the first session in which we dealt with ....

Report on Outing during Leadership Workshop/ConCon, Maastricht 12th October 2019 This day was programmed for relaxation and a planned outing. By 09: 00 am, all participants of the workshop and a few other fellow brothers were seated in the luxury bus that was to take us to two tourist attractions in Belgium and Germany. Fortunately the weather promised to be friendly after many days of light and heavy intensity rains of the week. The first place to ....

The 10th Day of The Leadership Workshop and Con-con Friday, 11 October 2019 Report by Bro. Valentinus Daru Setiaji   We started the tenth day of the Leadership Workshop/Con-Con with a morning prayer led by Bro. Andrew Makocho on behalf of Malawi delegation. The theme was “Steadfastness” taken from the ten virtues of Bro. Bernardus Hoecken. Some quotations from “The Rules of Conduct of Bro. Bernardus Hoecken” on “Steadfastness” were read by the brothers in turns as part of the ....

Thursday Report, 10 October 2019, Leadership Workshop and Congregational Conference 2019. Today (Thursday, October 10), the brothers came together to discuss and share on one of the relevant topics, namely teamwork and team building. The presentation was done by Bro. Augustine Kubdaar. At the beginning of the session, participants were invited to reflect on a scriptural passage related to the topic for our inspiration. The text chosen is from the Gospel of Mark (2: 1-12) . Each character in the story ....

Report Leadership Workshop/Congregational Conference, The Netherlands Today is Wednesday, the 9th. October, 2019. In compliance with the programme, the province of Indonesia shall be in charge of the prayers the whole day. This means they shall say prayers at morning devotion, opening and closing of sessions, meal times and mass. The chapel of the C B sisters is located on this first floor. From here, I cannot see the sun although it is already fifteen minutes after seven. I am told that ....