This past weekend, Germany observed Pentecost Sunday and Whit Monday. And although I would love to have spent all of the weekend with the family, we had to share our time together.I spent most of Saturday hanging out in Schwetzingen, a town just south of Mannheim, with Erich Schneider (our national bishop in Germany) and Douglas Leroy (one of my bosses with Church of God World Missions). It was a beautiful day to take in the Schwetzingen Palace. The palace is here is only a small summer residence of Elector Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria. But it has a large, and very beautiful castle grounds. Then we went to an Italian Eiscafe in Ketsch.
On Sunday, our family attended the "Pentecost Conference" - a gathering of most of our churches from Germany. This year's meeting was held in Waiblingen -- just a 20 minute drive from our home. The guest speaker was, as you may have guessed, Douglas Leroy. (Did anyone really think that he just came to Germany in order to take in a castle and followed by coffee and cake?) Parallel to our meeting, the kids were in a Kinderlobpreis with Thomas Klein.
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