One Rock – World Youth Day – Cochrane, Alberta – July 26, 27 and 28, 2013 Our Display Booth This weekend was the first opportunity for VICS to try out it’s new display booth. Four of us took turns sharing information about VICS at One Rock – World Youth Day […]
This weekend, July 26 – 28, 2013 VICS will have a display at One Rock, World Youth Day near Cochrane, Alberta! If you’re in the area, come check us out! Watch for updates next week! Check out their website at http://www.onerock.ca/
MM, a VICS volunteer who spent 9 years in Nepal from 2000 to 2009, shares some experiences from her return visit in 2013. (Look for a full version in the Thanksgiving LINKS newsletter) It was great to be “home” once again, to awake to the sounds of the cuckoos, to […]
Under the supervision of Father Francis Folleh, the Turadu Water Project is now complete. After being ravaged by war, the village of Turadu in Sierre Leone was without a well. People were accessing water from a nearby stream, but as people have been moving back to village, a better water […]
Hey everyone! VICS is now on facebook! Just search for us with VICS – Volunteer International Christian Service. This is what you’ll see!! Check us out often to see what’s new, and don’t forget to ‘like’ us!!
Not many people attended this year’s Ottawa Gathering, but the great food, stories and laughter made up for the small number! Four of the five people volunteered in Tanzania, so you can imagine on what the conversation focused! Watch for another reunion at the same time next year! […]
This year Calgary hosted the May long weekend Western VICS reunion. Twenty three people from British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, New Brunwick and Nigeria spent the weekend sharing times of inspiration, stories, and laughter. Born in Poland, Father Krystian Golisz shared his views about mission, using 12 years of […]
The hospital in Kolofata grown and developed since first established in 1990. Here’s a summary from the VICS volunteers associated with the hospital. In 1990, we started out very small, with only 5 beds in a dilapidated builidng at the entrance to town. Our real focus then was on taking […]
What a wonderful, enriching day!! About thirty five people gathered at Neil McNeil School in Toronto for the annual VICS Good Friday Fast. Typical to VICS gatherings, it was a time of sharing, remembering, discussion, laughter, and enrichment.
