Heads up: this isn't an overly cheery post.
This last Friday (May 22), one of our free days, we trained to Celle, caught a couple of busses, and visited the concentration and POW camp at Bergen-Belsen (more info). Some 70,000 people, most of ...
Posted on May 25th, 2015
Last Wednesday evening we had our second social event for our Let's Start Talking project in Hildesheim, Germany. These events are designed to get our readers and the church members together so they can meet each other and, frankly, to have some f...
Posted on May 25th, 2015
It's hard to believe, but today (Wednesday, May 20) marks the halfway point of the Hildesheim LST project for the Dvorak's (Emily an Jonathan will stay longer). We're having a great experience here. Our first week was a good one. We pushed through...
Posted on May 20th, 2015
After a wonderful experience at Gemeinde Christi church this morning (Sunday, May 17, 2015), our team got back to work with several readers. One group of five readers were all from a single family. Each member of our team paired up with one person...
Posted on May 17th, 2015
On Saturday, Susan Bratcher took our group to the Marienburg Castle, which was a birthday present from King George V of Hanover (1819–1878) to his wife Queen Marie (1818–1907) (click here for the story). Compared to other castles around Europe, it...
Posted on May 17th, 2015
Since we didn't have any readers today, Susan Bratcher (one of the missionaries here in Hildesheim) took us on a walking tour of Hildesheim—which is celebrating its 1200-year anniversary, but the way. Here are some of the highlights of that fantas...
Posted on May 15th, 2015
Yesterday (Tuesday) was our first day to start reading the LST Gospel of Luke workbooks. We had 6 readers yesterday and 7 readers today (Wednesday). Every member of our team has read with at least one person. Here are a couple "action shots" (I re...
Posted on May 13th, 2015
Even though we had all been awake for more than 24 hours, we had our information meeting last night. We signed up 17 readers so far. More may sign up during the remainder of this week. The readers span a range of ages from teenagers to "older and ...
Posted on May 12th, 2015
Although sleep was impossible on the flight from DFW, we made it to Amsterdam. Here's Hagan beside some decor / art in the Amsterdam airport.
Posted on May 11th, 2015
We made it to DFW. And our plane just pulled up to the gate. We're scheduled to depart at 3:40 PM CDT.
Posted on May 10th, 2015
