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English and Crafts in Tran
Welcome to Bulgaria is helping out in Tran at the Community Center for Families and Children at Risk. Bobby Faber is teaching English to kids who want to learn a foreign language. We have also offered to teach an adult class, but so far we don’t have enough takers. Bobby usually teaches English for one [...]
Racing with Integrity in Skopje
Integrity AO, a friend of Salt Ventures in Skopje, Macedonia, sponsored the 2008 Young Talent Duathlon on October 4, 2008. The event enjoyed broad sponsorship from government agencies, including the city of Skopje and the US Embassy, and local corporate sponsors. Integrity AO is a nongovernmental agency whose purpose is investing in people, challenging them [...]
In Memoriam: Michael Kyossev
Salt Ventures said farewell to a good friend in September when Michael Kyossev died in Sofia. Like many in his generation, Misho grew up an atheist under communism, but experience a life changing conversion to Christianity at the unlikely age of 53. He remained faithful for the next 10 years until the Lord called him [...]
Pax Balkana
Daria White established Pax Balkana to implement peacekeeping methods in Bulgaria. After three years trying to make western ideas work, only to discover that they don’t quite fit over here the same way they do in America, Daria decided to start fresh from the ground up. The Forum She collected a group of Bulgarians to [...]
The United Theological Faculty (UTF)
This post is dedicated to one of our strategic partners, the United Theological Faculty of the Bulgarian Evangelical Theological Institute. UTF provides training for many of the workers we serve in Bulgaria, the Balkans and beyond. A New School Year at UTF The United Theological Faculty opened the new school year in September with the [...]
In the Spotlight: Alyssa Copenhaver
Salt Ventures missionary Alyssa Copenhaver is working at the Renewal Community Center in Samokov. Her goal is to disciple a core group of teens, encouraging them to develop a deeper faith and desire to reach out to others in the community around them. Here she is pictured with some friends from the church. Nicky, on [...]
Health Screenings in Samokov
If you are from the Roma community in Samokov, Bulgaria, then you already know that these are the ways a summer team from Christ Church of Oak Brook served at the Renewal Community Center from July 19-26. The Renewal Community Center is ministry of the God of Bethel Church which they built to reach out [...]
Kyustendil Olympics
Beijing isn’t the only venue for Olympic games this year. Part of the World Impact team from College Church traveled to a home for the disabled in Kyustendil, Bulgaria, for an evangelistic program built around an Olympic theme. Since many of the residents are immobile, we expected only 10 or so to actively participate, but [...]
World Impact
Salt Ventures organized two English camps for teens through Faith Christian Church in Vidin and Holy Trinity Church in Sofia. Both camps were supported by Lance Clemens of Greater Europe Mission and a World Impact team of high schoolers from College Church in Wheaton. The American teens came full of energy and enthusiasm, hungry to [...]
