We have finally arrived in Liepzig for the Baptist World Youth Conference! The opening night of the conference was awesome. Since we are in Germany they tackled the difficult topics of both Wars and the Holocaust. A mime lead the service – which was strange, but he did an awesome job. He acted many of […]

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Prague We drove to Prague this morning and while I had considered the Czech Republic depressed yestered, we found capitalism alive and well in the city of Prague. As we drove into the city nearly every building was brand new and bore the label of a major company (HP, DELL, Sony, GE…). Of course the city […]

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Salzburg Today was crazy busy and we have now visited our third country! Considering a week ago I had never been outside the US I am making progress! We left Germany this morning and headed to Salzburg, Austria. With “the hills are alive” chanting in the background (and some of the boys gurgling mock “ahhhahahahah”) , we visited the church where […]

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Oberammergau The little town, nestled in the Austrian Alps,is beautiful. From our hotel the veiw on one side was the moutains and on the other the Catholic church (in which we sang Sunday morning). The church bells sound every hour and also call the people to mass. Unfortunately mass is at 6 in the morning (among […]

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The Germany Tour is off to a great start. Things started with a bump as my and Annette’s names were on the terror watch list (though I was supposed to be a 60something lady…), but we landed safely and as I type I am looking at the Alps from our balcony window – amazing! Another plus, we have yet […]

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