Author: Reinier van den Berg

Although no one can really see into the future, I already know that 2025 will be a year to remember! And not just because of a planned wedding. 🙂 No, 2025 will be a...

Reactions to my blog from the end of October “New heights and views in the Van den Berg Family (De Poolse Bergen)!”, and also an earlier post on Facebook, were overwhelming, sweet, spontaneous, very...

After contributions in 2021, 2022 and 2023 about the busy month of December, full of activities within the various programs of Bread of Life we run, it is obvious to repeat myself… I like...

Growth often comes in fits and starts. Or in waves, if you like. And especially often at times and in ways you don’t expect. After the wonderful start in the summer of 2023 of...

In August I wrote about the “Empty-Nest” syndrome for me. With Jadwiga moving to Toruń loneliness would threaten the “Poolse Bergen”… Well, that didn’t work out in any possible way! In the period when...

In two months in which suddenly in a fantastic way my whole life was turned upside down (see the blog “New heights and views …”) fortunately there were also many things that went undisturbed....

Some moments in life are milestones – sometimes they come as a complete surprise, which unfortunately I have experienced too much recently, and sometimes you see them coming from afar. Such one that has...

One of those mornings with food distribution. When I have the time and opportunity with all pleasure I help loading – good to stay in shape and good to develop contacts! 🙂 Someone else...

Perhaps it is not always clear how I, as director of Bread of Life, align my time and priorities with my role within Evangelical Poland. What if I tell you that such tensions hardly...

Twice a week distribution from the Food Bank in Poznań, where we have been the largest distributor already for some time, to the various points where we as a Bread of Life provide food,...