Author: Reinier van den Berg

Since February 2022, Bread of Life has been actively participating in various forms of aid to Ukrainian refugees in Poland, from coordinating various actions to offering shelter. Various blogs here on the site have...

Here in Poland we have a saying “If you don’t know what it’s about, it’s about money.” And indeed, whether we want it or not, far too often we have to pay a lot...

Every once in a while we show beautiful pictures of sweet smiling people who joyfully give out food on behalf of Bread of Life. We help people in need and clearly enjoy it. But,...

After a major earthquake, the destruction is often enormous. With indescribable material but also large personal and emotional damage – people suffer. After the earthquake in the “Poolse Bergen” of September 2022, the material...

After Christmas in a kind of survival mode last year, this year it was time for something new. The last time we celebrated Christmas in the Netherlands was in 2011, 12 years ago, and...

As in every culture, every country or family, Bread of Life also has its traditions around Christmas. And as with almost every charitable organization, the month of December is a very busy one… Loyal...

Networking, relationships and contacts… I don’t know how often I’ve written about it. But, new possibilities always appear, which make me enthusiastic over and over again. For example, there is the collaboration of the...

Just some family news… Jadwiga turns 18 in January (yes!), and for some reason this motivated my Polish daughter to arrange also her second, Dutch passport. Of course I don’t say no to that,...

Long ago, in the late 1990s, shortly after I moved to Poland, we once went on holiday in southeastern Poland. The impression I remembered from cities such as Lublin, Sandomierz, Tarnów or Przemyśl, was...

In addition to hosting the Mission Team from Charlotte, there was something else great last weekend: the annual conference of Evangelical Poland, with plenty of inspiration and networking. “A picture is worth a thousand...