Interns 2008 - a crash course in Ecumenism
- Ginger Porter, Antsa Rakotoarisoa and Henrik Hansson spend their 2008 as interns at the World Council of Churches in Geneva. Each of them have their own department, and they share their first impressions about Geneva, World Council of Churches and ecumenism .
Ginger Porter, Antsa Rakotoarisoa and Henrik Hansson spend the year 2008 as interns at the World Council of Churches in Geneva. Each of them works in a department. Listen to their ideas about Geneva, the World Council of Churches and ecumenism.
H. Gingerlei Porter is from the Congregational Christian Church in American Samoa, an island in the Pacific. She is doing her internship in the Decade to Overcome Violence (DOV) office where she is the expert on DOV's Pacific focus during 2008.
| Listen to what Ginger thinks about her time at the WCC so far. (7 min 10) |
Antsa Rakotoarisoa is from Madagascar and belongs to the Anglican Church there. He has just finished is higher education; this winter he sucessfully defended his master's thesis in Business which he of course is very delighted for. Then he was looking for an international churchy experience and the ecumenical officer of his church informed him about the WCC internship programme. And now he his here, contributing to the WCC youth desk.
| Listen to his opinions on youth work at an international ecumenical organization. (3 min 10) |
| Also take the opportunity to hear why he believes ecumenism is important, in French. (1 min 13) |
Henrik Hansson is from Church of Sweden; he is doing his internship in the WCC Communication where he does everything from taking care of visitors from small Swiss villages to being the house audio expert.
| Listen to what he thinks about whether WCC is the place for young people to be (7 min 16) |
