On Friday, we met up with the usual bunch from Berlitz - Becky, Roberts, May, Olav, Peter, Elena, Angela. It was lovely, the weather, the company, catching up ... everything! We went to this Hamburg Fishmarket, which is an open-air, beer-festival type of market. Stuttgart and Hamburg have this yearly "exchange program", in which Stuttgart sets up its signature wine festival in Hamburg and Hamburg brings in its signature fish dishes.
The variety of fish was not that wide, but it was good enough. The atmosphere was good too and we ended up buying baskets of fresh fruits and pasta. Very worth your money, cos for 10€, you get all the fruits you can eat for a month and like 10 packets of pasta.
Hee, look at their looks of torture written on their faces!
On Saturday, we met up with some Singaporeans who live around the region. It was real amazing. Some of them travelled by train from Munich, Ulm eg. (about 2 to 3 hours away), just to meet up for lunch, get to know each other eg. Yup, I´m the youngest in the group again (not complaining here :>), the second-youngest is a girl called Cory, whom I could click with quite well and who´s a Christian too (first Singaporean I got to know in Germany who´s Christian). Only thing is that she´s going back to Singapore in August. But good to cross paths neverthless.
OH and what other gd news? We got introduced to this amazing restaurant that sells beef hor fun and wan ton soup, so similar to back home! Woo-hoo! Plus the price is pretty reasonable, about 6€ to 7€. Man, I´ve already made some oral advertisements of this place to my classmates and we´re going to plan a trip there for lunch soon.
At the super nice restaurant with beef hor fun
At the Hamburger Fishmarket
The church actually started, cos this lady prayed for a lame man who got cured from his paralysis. Hence, the whole town got to know about this miracle and this was the birth of the church! Never under-estimate the prayer of 1 person! The congregation grew from like 50 members at the begining to like 2,500 members presently, with a total of 4,000 people who attend every Sunday. Most of the growth only occured in the last 20 years under the leadership of the head pastor - Peter Wenz, who was fresh out of seminary school at that time - aka, no experience and all. Amazing eh?
Peter Wenz shared that during one of the pastor conferences, God told him that there are thousands of people in Stuttgart and around the region, who will give their lives to Jesus as soon as they hear the gospel for the 1st time. And he said that in the next 10 years or so, the 2,500 members that we have now, would be a small proportion of the number of members in the future. That´s really awesome, though at this point I can´t imagine what the church will be like with maybe 10,000 members? That would be like the size of City Harvest, Lighthouse?
Anyways, for all my complains of my new big church, I believe that there´s a reason why God placed Stephan and I there. I just pray that I will find my place in this big church and that I will not feel lost in oblivion in the sea of believers there. I know that God has so much more in store for Stuttgart, beginning from BGG and He has so much more in store for Germany, beginning from Stuttgart.
We had a surprise birthday celebration for a friend in german class last week. I baked a cake and was so happy that I did it, cos a birthday is not complete without a birthday cake. And Laura comes from the USA, so there´s a tradition of having birthday cakes there too. =) Glad that God gave me the idea to bake a cake .......... was so late for class cos of it, thanks to me not knowing if the cake was baked or not.
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