We are a small church in the city of Giessen in central Germany. Roughly 40 people attend the services each Sunday. Since the church is not very old (about 16 years), all of the families attended different churches before coming to our church, while some individuals came to faith in our church over the past […]
This past summer, we two girls were privileged with something that neither of us will ever forget. We travelled around the world and learned a lot. One of the things we realized was how fortunate we are to have been brought up in Christian homes and in a country in which we have almost anything […]
The Berlin Sportpalast (Sports Palace) is packed to capacity. From thousands of voices rises a constant din. There is an air of excitement, expectancy and eagerness. People of every age and class are here, the young, the old, the middle aged, the factory worker, the office girl, the doctor, the student, the nurse and many […]
I didn’t know how to begin this article, or perhaps I should say “where” to begin it, so I decided to put off writing until another time and read my “Reader’s Digest” instead. I turned to the article, “The Scots Among Us,” and that reminded me of the time I took the train from London, […]
Fourteen years ago, on December 7, 1941 – a date which will live in infamy – the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the forces of the Empire of Japan. Japanese planes swept down on Pearl Harbor, our great naval base in Hawaii, while submarines sank many of our battleships, killing […]
Reaching For The Stars, by Nora Wain. Little, Brown, and Company, Boston. This is not a novel, as the title would perhaps lead you into surmising. It is more like a travelogue than a novel, but it isn’t exactly that either. The author’s husband went to Germany in 1934 to study music and she accompanied […]