LEC = Leipzig English Church. On Nathan's birthday 10 years ago, the LEC held its first church service (Gottesdienst). This year, on the weekend of Nathan's birthday, LEC had its anniversary celebration.On Saturday, there was a tour of Leipzig, which we and Nathan's parents joined (more of that in another post). In the evening was a reunion dinner, where many current and old members attended from all over the world. We worked out how many different countries were represented there, and there were too many to remember. Some of the countries: Australia, Hungary, UK, Germany, USA, Canada, 3-4 african countries, China, Korea...
On Sunday there was a special service in the Lutheran church, where Martin (pastor) reflected on the past 10 years. He spoke on 2 Corinthians 4:7 "But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us". He suggested that this verse characterised LEC best. It is a church that is made up of ordinary and unspectacular people, but somehow God has used the people to grow a church from nothing and affect so many people through the treasure of the Gospel.
Here is a picture of us just after the "official" photo was taken. Unfortunately a bit messy, as everyone was anxious to get some snacks made by the church members, and therefore quite varied in style and origin. Jo made a Pav, which although is claimed by both Australia and New Zealand, can be passed off here as Aussie - especially since there are no Kiwis to argue the point.
The Pav went down well. "Sehr lecker" - very delicious!
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