Hello! After a long 10 hour plane ride, we arrived safely in Berlin. We "lugged" our luggage all over town finally locating the area in which we are living which is a culturally diverse area of Berlin.
Friday was our free day. Using public transportation many of us enjoyed touring the city and visiting Potsdam. Friday evening was spent working at the American Church in Berlin helping with the food distribution fellowship program. We sorted various fruits, veggies and breads to be given out to many families including Muslim, Turkish, Russian and Greek families. Many of us served as liaisons to over 70+ families as they came through the food line. We experienced one-on-one interaction where language seemed to be of no barrier. Our friend, Kamar, one of the representatives for the American Church in Berlin, explained that we were God's light and his theme song for us is "This Little Light of Mine." After serving food, we scrubbed and cleaned up including the many tomatoes that had been smashed on the floor. In this church, everything takes place in the Sanctuary - from food preparation to the food distribution fellowship meals to worship!
This Saturday morning we went to the church and helped reorganize, moving tables from one level to another level of a church - upstairs! Kamar took many of us on a tour up to the top of the steeple which is around 300 feet.
Tomorrow, Sunday, we look forward to leading in worship and taking place in the adult forum, which is like an Adult Sunday School class. We are also looking forward to sharing in a pot luck with the members of American Church in Berlin and then sharing in city tours together.
Weather is cool, beautiful and the temp is around 70 degrees.
We've already made a lasting relationship with the pizza place on the corner. They give us the low down in what we should and and should not do. We also experienced culturally diverse demonstrations with police presence and all their riot gear.
We're having a great time and feel like we've known these people forever. Keep checking this blog for updates; we were unable to upload photos to the blog at this time but hope to resolve this and will post the many beautiful photos as soon as possible. Please continue to keep us in your prayers. -Susan
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Hi All,
Great job on your postings - your trip sounds interesting to say the least. I enjoyed reading about your adventures and the links were nice. I know the fellowship is awesome as I have traveled on mission work with many of your group members. I think of and pray for you often - Take Care!
Jill
The Gant and Chappler families send all there love and prayers. We hope our mothers aren't on the verge of getting everyone deported(you have to keep an eye on those two) Well again best wishes and take care.
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