Day Three - Schwerin & Rostock

I had a good nights sleep on the sofabed at Family Silbers in Schwerin. At 10am we had the meeting with the president of the 'FEG North' churches and two of the Pastors from the area regarding the planting of a church in the city of Rostock. The meeting didn't really start until 11am as the roads were quite icy and some people had to travel quite a distance. It was a real privilege to sit there and listen and to be able to gain a better understanding of the situation here.
The meeting went on longer than expected but we left about 2.30pm to make the hour long journey to Rostock. Our first call was with the local CEF worker Helger Breidenmoser. He did the course in Kilchzimmer when I was working there in 1993 and has been doing children's work in Rostock since then. I was very impressed with his attitude and his desire to support a church plant by organising Good News Clubs that would run parallel with a house group While his goal is that children be saved, he also wants them to grow and to be integrated in a local church. So we were able to identify an area were perhaps ECM/FEG and CEF could work together in the future.
We then drove out to our B&B, got some tea and headed back into the city to attend the Bible Study in the main Baptist church in Rostock. What a joy it was to fellowship with about 50 people there, to see their hunger for God's Word and to hear them pray for their city. Pastor Volkmar Gloeckner was outstanding in his biblical exposition! He made time for us afterwards, despite a busy programme and Victor was able to explain to him the plans ECM/FEG have for church planting in the area. The discussion was very helpful and encouraging.
Today was another busy day and it's almost midnight again!
Tomorrow we plan to view a new Baptist church building very near to where we are staying tonight. Then we will go for a walk to view the city and after lunch we will drive to Barth where we will spend some time with the Pastor there, Timo Frommer.
I am enjoying every minute of this trip and I'm really enjoying getting into the language again. It's all coming back to me which I'm really glad about especially as I will preach this Sunday in German.