First Outing to a German Church & Greetings

- We made our first outing to the German church this morning. We understood a bit. It was on a familiar passage (the Woman at the Well) so that helped a lot. When we came out Alex said “Are we going to go back here next week?” I said, “What do you think?” He said “That’d be good”.

It was about an hour and a half service. (We were told that it usually lasts 2 hours) The music was hymns done with guitar and piano. We had hymnals to sing out of. The pastor preached, with PowerPoint, on John 4. From what we could tell he gave a very clear explanation of the gospel and was quite animated in his preaching.

Alex had a separate program beginning with all ages singing together then breaking up for individual classes. He told us they played some games and then did a craft using a cut out of Psalm 119. There was an American little girl in there who took him under her wing.

So all in all, a successful foray. There is a more “contemporary” church in another town a little further away, that we will eventually try as well.

- In Germany when you are walking down the street or enter a store you must greet people.

Here’s a funny thing we say here:

Everyone above 60 says Gruss Gott- “God’s greeting”
Everyone above 40 says Gut Morgan or Gutten Tag – “Good Morning” or “Good Day”
Everyone abov 30 says Morgan or Tag – “Morning” or “Day”
Everyone under 30 says “allo” – “Hello”

When you introduce yourself you say, “Ich heisse Roes” – My name (is) Roes… So I’m known as Frau Roes. Only good friends may call me Krista. Nobody goes by “Miss Krista”.