The Blessing and After Care Personal Connection to a Supportive Community is the key to success Presented to the European Assembly February 2010

The Improved System for 1st Gen. Matching and your Community Each candidate needs an advocate in their community This person can work with the NL or BFD Rep. Purpose of the advocate is: to be a ‘cushion’ when information needs to be passed to the candidate in a personal and sensitive way Support the candidate through the whole matching and Blessing process Communicate with Susan to help improve understanding about the candidate, through writing a page for the ‘My Life Story’ form, which goes on the data base for all staff to be able to see.

An Example of a Jacob Gen. Couple Katrin Plaine did a wonderful job supporting Florentin in France Florentin and Divine who were Blessed in San Marino in January 2010

Both of them had been matched more than once… Both of them had been matched more than once….Divine went through 3 disappointments, and the whole process took 7 years! She said,” I’d encourage anybody to wait for as long as it will take and do the right thing. There is no short-cut to heaven. And the Blessing is worth waiting for.”

8 nations ( 6 of the 8 couples 2010 Feb 8 nations ( 6 of the 8 couples 2010 Feb.17th Blessing) Slovakia-Russia, Germany- Poland, Czech- Cameroon, Czech- Albania, 2 Albania –Albanian, Albania-Czech, Albanian-Ukrainian

8 Couples who were Blessed Feb 17th 2010 Lubin Argjr and Ernesta Babi (Albanians) Cvetko Pejkovski (Albania) and Eva Karcirkova (Czech)

God is touching the hearts of this young generation

If they are prepared well… and connected into the local community activities (with heart and love) before the Blessing, it will be natural for the support to continue after the Blessing. Friendship-Education-Mentoring

“To love somebody means to call him to life, to provoke his growth - we only have the courage to grow if it happens that someone believes in us” True Father