The Words of the Balcomb Family
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The Words of the Balcomb Family |
Mr. Mark Brann, Secretary General UPF-Europe
Croatia - On May 4th, 2009, UPF Croatia held its first Global Peace Tour event, under the theme: “A new vision of peace for the 21st century”. For this very special occasion we had as the main speaker Mr. Mark Brann, secretary general of UPF in Europe, as well as five other speakers from the ranks of our local peace ambassadors.
The event took place in "European house", very famous and well known meeting place in Croatia, and was attended by 60 people, ambassadors of peace and other guests.
Our first speaker, Dr. Marko Tarle, a long-time supporter of UPF gave very nice introduction. Following him, our second speaker, Mr. Marijo Zivkovic, president of "family center", one of very strong and famous catholic organization in Croatia, talked about family values and importance of sexual education for children in the schools.
Our third speaker, Dr. Tihomir Domazet, is the highest VIP ever attended some of our meetings. He is the member of economy council, counseling body of Croatian government and well known expert in economy.
He talked about current economic situation in Croatia, and the world, and how current crisis influence family and society, creates conflicts etc. He stressed that investment in education of young people is one of the most important ways how to deal with such problems.
Our forth speaker, pastor Damir Super from the Adventist church, talked about importance of spiritual foundation in our lives, how much is important inter-religious tolerance and dialogue, and that we can solve all our problems if we are united in love with God. Through this unity with God we can become better persons, better parents and children, better citizens and we can build better families and society.
Our fifth speaker, university professor Lidija Kraljevic, talked about character education project, we started recently in Croatia, our first character education book we published and plans how to start character education in our schools.
Our main speaker, Mr. Mark Brann, gave main speech in English language, with translation in Croatian. Most guests could understand English very well, so they didn't need any translation from us. They accepted message very well.