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
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
... 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
in English original version with German subtitles:
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.
Uncertain times we live in and the german word 'Seelefrieden' (peace of mind, but literally translated ‘peace of soul’) kept coming to my mind.
We speak of the soul as if it were something like our interior decoration.
The band Depeche Mode in their song "little soul" assumes that although with them there is only a little soul, but it still leaves footprints. Because even the little soul can spread light and radiate to others. This light, the words, the voice express the soul.
"Speak but a word, and my soul shall be healed." so says the centurion of Capernaum to Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew.
The biblical concept of the soul is often synonymous with the English Me. The basic meaning of the Hebrew word näphäsch, which is rendered as soul in English, is the throat with the trachea and esophagus, i.e. the organs that are indispensable for human life. It represents the life of man given by God.
A warm invitation to our worship service "Seelenfrieden" on Sunday 12 march at 3pm @ Dantata Sawoe Lifecamp with "something for children" included. Pre-registration is requested by Friday, March 10, and also who wants to be present at the joint lunch at the Clubhouse.
The services are in German, but with English sprinkles, English songs, and the sermon in translation.
