Sunday, August 16, 2009

The first full day in Germany

In the city there was these unique sculptures of birds and a snake!
The buildings in the city were colorful and had amazing architecture.
This is the dinning hall before most of the tables and chair were set up.

The first breakfast was cornflakes and hard German bread. The milk was the warmest milk I've ever had. It was a little hard to finish. (:P) In the middle of our meal and rather short man came over to us. He introduced himself and he turned out to be Andrew the art zone leader. We had seen his picture on facebook, but profile pictures aren't the same as someone being there in real life. He had flown in late the night before and since we went to bed so early we missed his arrival. He brought us over to another table where the other art zone members were sitting. One of the girls, Rebekka was from LA, so it was nice to have another person from the US. It turned out that she arrived late last night also and in the rain!

After breakfast we had a meeting about what kind of things we were going to do and brainstorm about other ideas. We only had six art zone members at the time with others arriving at all different times in the week so we started with simple introductions and basic ideas. Mirijam from Germany had been to teenstreet in previous years and was Andrew's assistant. She was in school and wanted to be an art teacher. Kathi from Austria had been to teenstreet to as a teen but it was her first year helping out in the art zone. She knew she wanted to help at teenstreet in some way and felt God was calling her to help in the art zone. We had to wait for them to put up temporary walls before we could start working to set up the art zone so we went into town. It was a good fifteen minute walk from the center to the main part of the town. Another member joined us, Josh from England. We stopped to have ice cream. I miss the ice cream it was out of this world. Melissa and I tried the watermelon flavor. :) We also looked around one of the art supply stores but everything was too expensive.

The theme of teenstreet was impossible based on Hebrew 11:6 so they discussed it in depth during devotions. The couple that was speaking to the teens at teenstreet spoke at devotions and shared what they were going to speak with the teens to us, service team members.

Note: We plan to share more the Sunday we have pictures! I might write stuff down before I speak to the youth group so I cover everything I want to say. I felt like everything I wanted to say I didn't even come close to talking about at church today.

1 comment:

  1. You both did a fabulous job on Sunday, but I will look forward to more with pictures. I remember the ice cream when I was there. Wasn't it called 'lodi' or something? That might be the Polish word for it - I ate a lot of ice cream while in both countries. :-)

    Mrs. G

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