Wedding in Belgium

At the end of October I had the privilege to be invited to the Wedding of my old friend Frank Ernst (called Ernsti). Now I finally had a chance to visit him in Antwerp/ Belgium.

Travel
We went by car, another Jesus Freak girl from Landshut joined us. So we had a nice travel without problems, had nice talks and listened to a challenging sermon of David Pierce. We started about 10 in the morning and arrived at 19.00 o' clock in Hoboken and received a heartly welcome. We were shown the daycare facility for children. It is the first christian one in Belgium and I only knew it from all the struggles, prayers and other thing realizing it. So I was glad to be finally able to see it with my own eyes.

Some of us went away to get Kebap with strange sauce *hehe. I went cooking with the other girl (Bri) and carried it up all the way over the remarkable stairs under the roof where we all stayed. Sibylle arrived in the meantime and was quite lonely. Sometime later the boys came back and we chilled in all the sofas that were there abundantly.

Spontaneous Service
As Bri had a cold I just wanted to pray for her healing. But suddenly we were in a long time of prayer and worship. Really cool! We thanked God for all the things he had done in the life of Ernsti, how this day care center was realized, thanked God for his faithfulness and prayed for Belgium and Antwerp. Matthias got hold of a guitar and started playing worship songs and we worshipped Jesus. Somehow I got the idea to release the friendlyness and glory over Sibylle (in the midst of night Jesus had the idea to give her a loveletter - at 2 o' clock in the morning!). As we all were very tired we soon went in our sleeping bags...

Sightsseing


After a wonderful breakfast we went together with Mäggi and Susi, who arrived in the meanwhile, into town for sightseeing.

Antwerp is a real nice place - small alleyways, small houses with wonderful facades. Somewhere we got a big portion of chips with different sauces and different enthusiasm :)

On the way back we got some Belgian candies. We liked to have some coffee but no one came to serve us so we left without.


The Wedding

It was nice to be at this international wedding. It was held mainly in flemish without translation. Somewhere closer to the front someone was sitting wo was translating - but only the people around him could understand it. But some parts were at least in English or were translated.

The worship was quite nice, they really have some cool musicians. A friend from Ireland was holding a little speech. Something about that we easily can imagine that Jesus loves our neighbor but not me...

After that sparkling wine (not really alcoholic), some dips with vegetables and some sweets were served.

We retreated to write some greeting cards for our presents. As church we were collecting money for the wedding and everybody from us brought their bills. We wrote our greetings in fake Flemish. We had great fun with it.

The Celebration

The evening program took place in a hall nearby, a real nice location. We as jesus freaks were sitting together and had some nice conversations.


We heard some testimonies of conversions and how our Jesus Freaks churches were founded. Later we were asked to serve at the bar. That was really funny and we enjoyed it a lot.
The clean up afterwards was soon over cause many helped.

The next morning we had a nice breakfast with our host. They just moved in, their flat is still to be renovated. But the really served us gernerously and were excited to have us. Realy hospitality.