Where have you been?

Yeah, see the castle looking thing up there? That's the youth hostile we met in for the Mid-Winter Rally in Colditz. It's full of history and very impressive.

Wittenberg, where Martin Luther posted the 95 Theses. He is also buried there in the church, a tick of irony.

Circle of friends, chatting about the last year and being content. We kicked the men out, so they could talk about postmodernism and the emergent church in the european context.

Brett preaching from 2 Thess 3:1-5

After the rally, we had a night to get repacked and head to Augsburg for a teen retreat. The tricky part was, our toilets didn't work and neither did the washing machine. A quick call to our landlord on his ski vacation informed us that since it hadn't rained, the well was empty and he had to walk me through how to switch it over so we got city water. This was fixed after Brett and I handwashed the bare necessities.

Fiona was so excied that there was a playground in the child's section of the train. It made a
3 1/2 hour train ride a lot quicker.

Brett didn't plan on such an intense illustration (New Year's Eve didn't go as planned), and the teens really seemed to take a lot away from Brett's devotion.

We had a good time getting to know the people in the Augsburg church (they have amazing facilities!!) I refused to take any pictures of the return trip because we got on a ghetto train that took forever and didn't have such a nice children's section. Bitter, yes, but I know many have it worse...