Weekend in Germany - One Faith, One Hope

We left Paris bang on 10:55 on ICE9573 bound for Karlsruhe, a journey of 2.5 hours. It didn't take long to hit 300km/h.

Karlsruhe is a great place to pick up a rental car. Apparently Stuttgart is like "driving straight onto a racetrack". We picked up our car and drove an hour east to our first night's place of stay which was literally in the middle of nowhere. A good place to grab an early night and only 45 mins from the Esslingen ecclesial hall.

On Sunday we had a great day. We went to the meeting in Esslingen where we were made to feel very welcome. This especially was the case for Abby who lots of brothers and sisters knew from her previous visits even though the last visit was some 20 years ago.

Lots of brothers and sisters have a good grasp of conversational English or better as most people have either a spouse or a parent from an English speaking background. However, the meeting was in German which was a really good experience for all of us to understand how it feels to benefit from fellowship even if we can't understand the language, and how important it is to make visitors feel welcome.

After the meeting we had an extension of fellowship at the home of Bro Neil & Sis Ilona McQueen and their family followed by a trip to the ruins of an old castle with amazing views.

Our weekend ended with a drive down to Trossingen where we are stayed the night.Leia mais