G ermany is a country with a rich and diverse history - it is seen in the landmarks, in the stories, in the people. Though the heart of the Protestant Reformation in the 1500s, we saw the marks and effects of their more recent history resulting in deeply rooted beliefs such as atheism, humanism, postmodernism. People tell you Europe is a very closed continent when it comes to Christianity...hearing and experiencing that are two different things. During our time there we experienced it. We were located in what was formerly part of East Germany just south of Berlin. Matt Hurja was our main missionary contact there and much of our week was spent interacting with him, several of the other Word of Life missionaries and volunteers, as well as the 13 students attending the discipleship training school there. We had opportunity to experience the culture and country firsthand through our interaction with the people, through the ministry opportunities provided us, and through opportunities to tour
a whole may function with little or no thought of the true God or His message of salvation we saw His preservation and the hope and commitment of a small group of born-again believers through our time spent with Word of Life there as well as the opportunity we had to participate in both a Sunday service and a youth outreach event held by one of the local churches. Gods sovereignty had to be a theme for many of us because we saw the difficulty firsthand of witnessing to a people group who had lost the hope of even finding hope and yet we saw missionaries and believers committed ---------- —™--- :— --------. and persevering because ,• Y | * of this character of d i our God - that it is His ' ’ i % y 1 * - ministry and He is and ^ , /v s ,s ^ will continue to perform m Y . His work in Germany! -MISSY KAR.Y ■ »V* • i J 1 >: f i t i v * - \ \ : u
many of the historical sites. Evangelistic opportunities as a group were limited by •tiTF'gOv^mment and in many more ways by the harct^ess of many of the people as individualsYjBut while the country as
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