Time to Say Good-Bye

Andi bringing his guests to the train station

Last time for a group picture

Dennis saying good-bye and presenting chocolate

Dennis and the Grace students

Farewell to a fabulous team!!

GO Team Continued

Almost everyday the Grace students were in English classes

The team stopped by the bakery where a young woman in our church works

Following up on a recommendation from one of our church members, John took the team to GummiBearLand here in Aalen. I guess it's been here for 11 years, but this was our first contact!

A trip to the cloister in Neresheim

Evening with the Paul Family

Mama Paul with 5 daughters

Pauls with the team

Here we are with the team

Guests: Wilfried and Grace GO Team

Wilfried stopped by on his way to a retreat for missionaries. He's on a month-long vacation in Germany.

John was at the Stuttgart airport, waiting for the team's arrival from Paris.

Plane on time, and all the luggage arrived as well!

Kip Cone, team leader and former colleague, and some of the Grace students

At the far right is a German young woman, who came to the airport to greet the Grace gal next to her. The Grace student knew her in the U.S. as a high school exchange student.

Welcoming evening spread

Some of the host families joined us.

In addition to the team's visits to English classes in local schools, they've been a part of special events - Friday night game evening for our youth, the young adults and the Grace team

Team time with Kip

Practicing music for the Sunday services

Salome joins us, while her parents are preparing the meal for the team.

Daniel, Nadine and baby Grace cooking in the church kitchen.

Baby Grace!

Kolsters had a very frustrating experience trying to boil water for noodles (took about 1 1/2 hours), because the church stove was "dying". Daniel resolved to care for the situation immediately following the meal. He went to Media Markt and purchased a stove and promptly installed it.

Setting up for our English film evening - we showed "The Blind Side" on Saturday evening.

After the film (around 11 pm), the young people set up the ping-pong table for more action.

Team providing music for the English church service on Sunday afternoon

Kip shared an animated Bible message

And we had a coffee time following the afternoon English church service. (This was only part of the spread - some amazing tortes were being cut in the kitchen!)

Dennis leading the Monday night prayer evening