Germanspeaking congregation in Nigeria

 

Where has the calmness gone?

Why so angry, man?

 

The sermon text for next Sunday tells the story of Jonah, who gets quite angry and also approaches God in all his anger and all his disappointment and frustration - and God, - God first asks him: Why so angry, Jonah?

 

Next service we will talk about anger and annoyance, but also about serenity and joy, and what it takes for that.

Welcome:

... @ 4pm @ Goethe-Institute Lagos

A warm invitation to the children's hour on Saturday, June 3 at 2 p.m. at the Goethe-Institut Lagos "Fear not!"
Everyone has fear or worry at times, but how do we deal with it? Although God says to us "Fear not!", sometimes it is not so easy, what helps?
Especially at Pentecost we are reminded that we have God's power with and in us.

Last time there were children from 4 to 11 years old. This is a wide age range, but it worked amazingly well, so we are trying it again this time. Also some spoke fluent German and others isolated words, this also worked well.

A man meets a woman. They talk. This is how often things start ... also in this story which we read and hear at Pentecost. Jesus meets a woman at the well and with that conversation something starts, something changes.

About what, more in the service on the coming Sunday of Pentecost.

A warm invitation to the Pentecost service on Sunday 28th May at 10.30 am @ pastor’s house JBN camp (Utako Road 3b) *** with "something for children" included ***

To give birth to something means to adjust to something new. Taking a risk. 

For example, the risk that one's own life will change fundamentally as a result of motherhood. Precisely because every child that is brought into the world is something unique and something completely new. 

 

Incidentally, much that is new to the world is born rather than produced or invented. Not only children and God are born. Ideas can also be born. Or books. In general, complex things. "It was a difficult birth," is often said, and that is not a metaphor. It is just that, when something surprising, unique, new comes into being: a birth.

A warm invitation to the service on Sunday 14th May at 3 pm @ Ashanti-Gallery

God once describes Herself as:

That is continuous reliability and permanent momentum rolled into one.

In other words, this is coming and going, and harboring at the same time.

 

This Sunday we welcome Judith, David, Joshua and Andrew who have come back after a long time, and we say goodbye to Katja, Annan, Alina and Jaron who are leaving.

 

A warm invitation to the service on Sunday 23 April at 10.30 am @ Ashanti-Gallery

This time the service will take place at the Goethe-Institut Lagos. 
On Sunday, April 2 at 4 pm.
Followed by a church cafe.

... and retelling and acting out the story of Jesus entering Jerusalem, on a donkey, with great rejoicing and fanfare.
On Saturday, April 1 at 2 pm at the Goethe-Institute Lagos.
Welcome.
Please register in advance so that we have enough Easter eggs: kirche.nigeria{}gmail.com

... with pizza break, 

Asante drives a shiny black car. He is the driver of a hearse and takes the dead from the Ghanaian capital Accra to their villages, where the funeral ceremonies take place.

Asante loves his job, but he has a problem: what woman would want to be with a hearse driver?

Esi is a young dancer who wants to bring her dead mother back to her home village. For Asante, it is love at first sight. However, Esi still has a stubborn father who will only tolerate the union over his dead body. 

 

This romantic comedy from Ghana offers both relaxed and subtle insights into the mentality of the country, whose customs and traditions have a vital force, even if director King Ampaw also allows himself to make critical points against superstitious excesses.