This morning, after a good night of much needed sleep, breakfast began at 8am. Did you know in Germany that you can get meat, cheese and potato salad for breakfast? I was less adventurous and had a fried egg, bacon sausage and kiwi. Oh and of course, lots of coffeeJ
Following breakfast we went into worship where a wonderful Russian Praise Band led us in music. We celebrated being in unity with one another as Christians and a pastor from Russia brought us the message. He used an amazing example of the Holy Spirit working in our lives better if we are united with one another in Christ. Look for me to use this in church sometime soon. We concluded the service by celebrating our unity through Communion. Bishop Wenner, of Germany led us in communion with the German language.
Following worship we were briefed on the rules for the legislative assembly and how all of the voting and legislation will work. A lot of this was review of how we do things in our annual conference, it was good clarification for us and for those from other countries. The thing that I am most looking forward to tomorrow is that we will be worshipping at the famous Berlin Dome for church. Now a short break for lunch followed by breakout legislation groups.
The afternoon consisted of legislation discussion and recommendations for the whole body at the legislative assembly which will be on Saturday and Sunday. We had some free time after our committee was out and so I did a little bit of mingling and little bit of exploring the hotel and a little bit of relaxing and talking to my boys at home.
After dinner they had what is called a ministry fair. This was a cool way for us to see some of what other churches are doing and to get information from the general boards and agencies relating to youth and young adults. Overall this was a pretty cool experience, got to see some interesting things and various ministries were able to sell things for their programs, etc.
We ended the evening with a Western Jurisdiction delegate meeting and it was cool to see all the youth and young adults come together as a group and talk about representing not only their individual conferences but also representing the Western Jurisdiction and presenting a united front to the rest of the global church.
It was a long day, and tomorrow promises to be even more involved as we will be spending the entire day outside of the hotel and doing things in the city. Should be pretty fun and exciting.
P.S. as I write this it is raining outside my window. Hopefully it won’t be rainy all day tomorrow as we do our sight seeing. I kinda forgot my umbrellaJ
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