A children's centre in Bulgaria run by the German mission society Allianz-Mission has completed its 2026 project week, a programme of art, sport and music that ended, as in previous years, with an open day for the surrounding community. The centre is called Zeichen der Liebe — "Sign of Love" — and the report was written by Ani, a member of its staff. Allianz- Mission is the mission agency associated with the Bund Freier evangelischer Gemeinden, the German free evangelical churches, and the account was published on its website.
The week was organised around small groups, with the children moving between activities rather than following a single programme. New this year was work with kinetic sand: the children modelled figures and shapes, made animals and sea motifs, and built coloured pictures and landscapes from tinted sand. Alongside it came the activities that have become fixtures — sport and music, painting and folk dancing — as well as pictures assembled from natural materials, which the report describes as among the most creative work the children produced. The aim, its organisers say, is to give children room to try things out, to work together and to take visible pride in what they have made.
The open day was the high point. Visitors included representatives of the Gotse Delchev municipality as well as parents, relatives and friends of the children, who presented what they had learned and made during the week. Staff said the children were clearly proud to show their work, and that the adults were struck both by the results and by the atmosphere of the week. The report closes by describing a varied few days in which creativity, community and, above all, the children's own enjoyment were what the programme was built around.
(Originally published in German. Summary translated by CC / Connexion.)
Source: Allianz-Mission / Bund FeG — https://www.allianzmission.de/eine-woche-voller-kreativitaet-bewegung-und-guter-laune/
