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Germany
20-12-2007 | Christchurch Blog | Church | General »
Thanks so much to all who prayed for my time away in Germany with my dear friends Dave Harvey and Jeff Purswell. It was another wonderful time with Wolfgang Wegert at the Arche church in Hamburg.

Wolfgang has pastored this church for 47 years! He also has a TV ministry that goes out to all the German speaking world every Sunday morning, where he teaches timeless truths centered around the glorious gospel and the doctrines of grace. Most of our time was spent speaking at a conference for leaders both from within the church and from other churches with whom Wolfgang has a close relationship.

Wolfgang himself is a man of great joy and charisma. He’s such a pleasure to be around as are all the men on his team. Christian Wegert, Wolfgang’s son, returned from the pastors college for the week to attend the conference. The PC is clearly benefiting him greatly and Jeff is so thrilled at Christian’s character and dedication to learn; I’m sure Christian will be a real asset to the Arche church when he returns home from Gaithersburg to Germany next summer.

What a great privilege it is for us to be able to continue to grow in our partnership with this outstanding team of men and this church. In many ways it feels just like being at home, except for the fact that my German is almost non-existent! Although I have managed to master “Drie bier bitte”! (is that how you spell it?)

I think we have much to learn from this relationship and I hope we are able to serve them in some small way also. We are already talking about the next time we can be together and what that may look like. It really seems as though God is joining us together for purpose; and what a relief it is to be able to get on a plane from Heathrow and be there in just over an hour! Grace upon grace!

So all that’s left for me now is to start to learn German…that should be an interesting process!

Auf Wiedersehen!
Pete Greasley