Sunday 4 June 2017

Eastern Germany

Nearly at the end of the sabbatical and we were off for a half term break to visit our friends, Linda & Roger (left), who are working as missionaries in the German city of Lepizig.

It was great to catch up with them, hear all their news, and to hear about their work for the Lord with the church in Leipzig.

This photo is taken at Colditz Castle, the ex POW camp made famous by the 1970s TV series, which we visited on a day trip from Leipzig.

Leipzig is a beautiful place, the city
where JS Bach was the choir master in the local church and the city where huge prayer meetings took place before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reintegration of Germany (Leipzig was in Communist East Germany).

From Leipzig we bade a fond farewell to Linda and Roger and took the train to the city of Dresden, heavilly bombed in the War, but beautifully restored.

The cross on the top of the Frauenkirche, was a gift from the people of Great Britain, when this building, completely destroyed by bombing, was wonderfully rebuilt after the fall of communism. Its a kind of sermon in resurrection and reconciliation in stone.

Here are some pictures of Dresden:

Martin Luther in front of the Frauenkirche




Eastern Germany

Nearly at the end of the sabbatical and we were off for a half term break to visit our friends, Linda & Roger (left), who are working as...