English Ministry/Sibiu
A web journal of Rev. Joel and Susan Schlachtenhaufen's trip to Sibiu/Hermannstadt, Romania, to work in cooperation with the Evangelical Lutheran Church to provide offerings in English.
A web journal of Rev. Joel and Susan Schlachtenhaufen's trip to Sibiu/Hermannstadt, Romania, to work in cooperation with the Evangelical Lutheran Church to provide offerings in English.
Easter Sunday was a joy, with a full church in the morning and a lively English-speaking group in the afternoon celebrating Christ’s resurrection and enjoying all the signs of new life — colored eggs, pussy willows, flowers, bread and wine and a festive Easter Dinner. We’ve seen more signs of life all week long. In addition to all the normal gifts of Spring, we briefly (like 8 seconds) tended sheep in the Hammersdorf church courtyard, witnessed storks coming home to roost, helped plant some apple trees and visited a village “bee farm” and sampled the honey.
We continue to find the land and the people in this area we have come to stimulating and inspiring. It is a land of 800-year-old villages where the fields have been cultivated, vineyards tended and sheep pastured. It is a land of 800-year-old cities with many highly cultured inhabitants and lots of people just barely getting by. They have so much to take pride in and so much that is very challenging.
