Today, I will continue on with the story of our life in Nienburg. Thomas and I, were learning to adjust to living with our two children in one room. In the last “episode recording” of Thomas, you could also hear the typical noises going on in the hallway.
Besides the workers in the house, there were four little kids running around, and playing. For Naomi’s second birthday with her
friends, we set up a picnic table in the garden for the cake and presents. As I was preparing everything, I remembered when she turned one, at Living Waters. My parents and sister, had come to visit us for the weekend. Now our California life seemed so far away.
... The two couples that invited us to Nienburg, already had friendships with people in a Baptist Church, and a non- denominational fellowship called “Jesus Treff” in Hannover. It was a meeting place in an old building downtown, that was set up as a café, for the young people who hung out on the streets. The entrance of the building was painted red, and above the door, in blue, with large white letters were the words, “Jesus Treff,” meaning, (meet Jesus). It had the look of a hippie café, except for the word Jesus!
Thomas, Peter and Gregor, started joining Loren and Alan on Sundays, to go there for the Sunday service. They loved meeting the people who led the group and learning German praise songs. Most of the Christians were like us, those who had come out of the hippie movement, and had a desire to share the gospel. A couple of the men had even travelled to California, to observe the Jesus People movement, and hear the Christian bands in LA.
