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[:en] Greetings from the Apinis family, In this letter all of our family members will speak of our Sabbath Year! Evelyn A year or actually 9 months of Sabbatical has gone really quickly. It is hard to explain shortly what it has given to us. We needed rest and quality time with family and this …

[:en] In the morning of Sunday, January 13, there was lively movement in the Agenskalns Baptist Church, indicating that the service would be different. Not for the first time, to be true, because two Disability Awareness Sunday services have already taken place in this Church. Yet there were even more people in wheelchairs this Sunday, …

[:en] Finally, or unfortunately, it’s winter. It probably depends on one’s attitude toward the season. However, apart from that, I would like to share some news of our family and, continuing what I told you in our September newsletter, to tell you what God has done till now. As you might already know, our family …

[:en] We often anticipate something great in life – a great opportunity, a great wonder or a surprising turn. We focus so much on “something sometime” that we risk missing the opportunities and miracles God has hidden like precious pearls in our lives right here and now. In haste and routine, we forget that the …

[:en]Author: Jordi Torrents In week from 8 to 13 October Evangelical Europe Alliance (EEA) organized the Hope for Europe conference in Tallinn, Estonia. 370 representatives from 37 countries took part in it under the slogan United in diversity. The European Disability Network (EDN) coordinated a series of workshops in Tallinn about how the Christian community …

[:en] Greetings from Hiiumaa, Estonia, This newsletter will probably not be a typical one; however, it’s going to contain very important things essential for our future ministry. We’ve been in full time ministry for already 17 years, and for a full 11 years we have served with Wings for Wheels. Over these years, God has …

[:en]Jordi Torrents The network of Christian ministries working for the inclusion of people with disabilities celebrated its tenth European gathering in Riga (Latvia) with the participation of 12 countries. Previous meetings had taken place in Switzerland (2001), Hungary (2002), Albania (2003), Spain (2004, although in this case it was only a meeting between representatives of …

[:en]Disability Sunday Services or Diversity Celebration currently is a new tradition in Latvia, and many might not even have heard of it. However, we believe that ever more Christian churches will become interested in it and will become aware of necessity to hold such services. The first Diversity Celebration Service took place in Agenskalns Baptist …

[:en]Once upon a time (in July 2016), a little girl was born. Her mother had good intentions of taking care of her, but it did not go as well as planned. The three weeks old girl was placed in foster care where she was well taken care of. She loved her foster mommy and especially …

[:en]We have started 2018 with another long-nurtured idea: Disability Awareness Sunday Service. It is thus named by the initiators of the tradition elsewhere in the world, but we are considering the option to name it Diversity Celebration in Latvia. The main topic will remain the same: to emphasise that people with various disabilities are also …