Author: Reinier van den Berg

Our volunteers are a great inspiration, support and blessing for us. Shortly before the Russian invasion into Ukraine, Jeffery from Taiwan came to us, offering volunteering on behalf of himself and his colleagues. At...

Thursday 24 February was an surreal day. I felt surreal being glued to my car radio, with new updates every fifteen minutes on the developments in Ukraine. I had the opportunity to do so...

Death is part of life. But that this has been so visible lately with the work we do for Bread of Life hurts. And certainly when you feel that in such a way on...

Typical for working with people who need help is that their situation often is not the happiest. The approximately 3,000 people who receive regular food aid, many of whom wait in lines at least...

In many churches it is customary that in addition to the regular pastor, others also get the chance to preach on Sunday. And for the past 10 years or so I’ve had such invitations....

Businesses sometimes seem to overflow with it… Coaching and training programs for everyone and for everything you can think of. Smart people, or people who pretend to be smart, tell people who have not...

During Christmas with travel restrictions, Dutch family in lockdown and Polish family in the middle of a move, you know it will either be lonely or very special. We are not the types to...

Most blogs we write have an enthusiastic undertone: we enjoy what we do, we have great contacts, and the grateful faces of the people we help are a true reward and further encouragement. And...

Centuries and centuries ago, the Romans had a fancy word for someone who was the boss or had to pretend he was: “praeses”. And while most modern languages ​​have long used their own translations...

November 2001… 20 years ago a severe winter announced itself in Poland, which according to final reports claimed the lives of more than 300 homeless people. Simply frozen to death. November 2001… At Poznań...