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ROM Challenge
Renewing Our Minds Notebook
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| Investing in a New Generation of Leaders
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November 2009
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Live TV Internet Broadcast Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 18.00 - 20.00 Houston Time (CST)
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/isp-current
Randall Butler, Executive Director, The Institute for Sustainable Peace shares his experiences from the recent peace mission to Sudan. Consult the Worldclock Web page for the broadcast time in your time zone. |
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Greetings!
ROM is moving forward. As a leadership development movement among young adults in Southeast Europe and the World, ROM continues to press on with its focus on Jesus Christ as its source of vision and inspiration. Out of this focus grows its mission that is about the pursuit of reconciliation, peacemaking, sacrificial leadership and motivation for action of service.
A week ago completed two week Wave Seminar in Subotica, Serbia represents the latest growth of ROM into a task force of service to various communities across Southeast Europe. Over one hundred participants attended the latest Wave seminar directed by Tea Deak, a ROM Executive Group member, and conducted by the team of 18, most of them previous Renewing Our Minds and Economic Diplomacy Seminar participants.
Read more about Wave and its recent Subotica project in the In Focus section of this bulletin, as well as other columns featured in this bulletin.
Thank you for your prayers, encourage and support.
Love and blessings
Tihomir Kukolja
Renewing Our Minds, Director
life-center-international@ri.htnet.hr
281-515-3707
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 In Focus: In October over one hundred participants attended two weeks of Wave
Seminar in Subotica, Serbia
Scroll down the ROM Blog - ROM Notebook to see several updates related
to the just completed Wave Seminar in Subotica, Serbia, released by Tea Deak,
Wave Director. The most recent update says: "Wave Community School of English in
Subotica, 10th of October to 24th of October, was a great success. Our two main
goals were to help our participants to improve their English and to challenge
their thinking about important themes such as reconciliation and leadership of
service, from the perspective of Jesus' followers. More than one hundred people
participated, and we had a team of 18 volunteers from 7 countries, most of the
selected from among ROM and EDS participants. The overall program was rich and
diverse. The most of participants were young people and students, so we also
organized some presentations in cooperation with IFES (EUS) Subotica, Serbia.
Number of our participants made big life changing decisions. The Wave program
was designed as a practical way of showing love through serving..." Read more...
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News:
Randall Butler Returns from a Peace Mission to Sudan
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Executive Director of the Institute for Sustainable Peace, Randall Butler
returned to Houston TX from his two week long peace mission to Sudan. Towards
the end of his mission he reported: "We went to the Khatim Adlan Center for
Enlightenment & Human Development where I spoke to about 50 intellectuals
and activists on the subject of 'Leading to Sustainable Peace.' I think I
stirred them up really well. After my talk several of them grabbed the
microphone to respond to my remarks. One told me outright that I was wrong about
transcendent identity. He said that all vestiges of tribalism must be erased and
a new national identity created. In effect, he was arguing for total
assimilation into one identity for all, which I believe to be impossible. It is
not working for France. Instead Muslims there feel dominated and marginalized.
What I called for is a transcendent identity that does not require giving up my
own culture and ethnicity. Transcendent identity is an enlarged identity that
permits me to continue to be a member of my tribe or clan, a citizen of my
village or city, a citizen of my state and nation, and a citizen of the world.
It is about recognizing my common humanity with all other persons on the planet
and therefore including them instead of excluding them from the common good." Read more ...
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Column - Leaders Worth Following, by Tihomir Kukolja
The history of
humankind is full of leaders who desperately desired to become immortalized as
messianic characters. Alexander the Great, Napoleon Bonaparte, Adolf Hitler,
Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong and many others with less prominent names and crime
record, sacrificed millions of human lives to that end. They fought with many,
but never did they fight their own vices, nor did they wrestle with the One to
whom everyone will one day have to give an account. Leaders of integrity, on the
other hand, learn to understand that the criteria for success is not in how far
one climbs the top charts of popularity, or how much controlling power one has
gained over others, but how much in a daily struggle with oneself and God a
leader has matured in developing his or her own character... Read all
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Recommended Reading -
It's Really All About God, Samir Selmanovic
"For
me, it was Jesus who helped me see and hear them now, in this life, saying,
"Follow me, and you might be better off - or you might not. But follow me
anyway. I offer you something that is worth everything: you will learn to love
well." Jesus loved so well that he died for something greater than himself. So
should religion that claims to follow him." - from the book by Samir Selmanovic
- It's Really All about God. Get more information about this new book ...
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More about ROM, Its Vision, Mission and Activities
We invite to visit
often our blog Renewing Our Minds Notebook and ROM Challenge on Twitter for frequent ROM related
news, features, videos, podcasts and updates. You may also subscribe to our
weekly iTunes Romcast (podcast)
or by visiting here. If you would like to know more about Wave and its mission visit here and here.
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After ten years of its mission
why does ROM remain to be relevant to the young emerging leaders?
ROM remains relevant because it is a shining example to young leaders of an initiative that was created and carried out by a small group of younger leaders who, faced with a big challenge (nationalism and prejudice), were able to affect change within their lifetimes. It is the effort to change and recover from the war that affected their own generation. Julie Swoboda, Houston TX, USA, attended ROM in 2006.
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