Pentecoste Monday in Germany

[Carsten Schermuly]

Today is a holiday by law all over in Germany.
Shops are closed, workplaces are empty - with the well known exceptions in business branches like public transportation, police, Red Cross, etc. Not independent workers do get money from their workplace contracts (around 65 percents of normal wedges), also regulated by law, Pentecoste Monday is a "paid holiday".

Every german country got its own "church holidays" according to the overweight of population "catholic / lutheran", since Pentecoste is a holiday for all christians like Easter or Christmas, there is today no difference between the 16 german countries.

There are also some paid holidays for worldly reasons like October Third, after unity of DDR and Western Germany our new National Day.


What are you doing today, please?
In the US is not known such a second Pentecoste holiday, right? And the social responsibility to pay for "holidays by law" is not as great as in our "Welfare Paradise" on this side of the big puddle - right?

[Anne and Dwayne Hood]

Carsten, we celebrate a Pentecost Sunday.
Today, Dwayne is visiting sick and elderly people. He still has a pastor's
heart.
I am sitting in the living room either reading, or playing with my laptop. We are enjoying DSL and wireless.
We have a US flag on the front porch to commemorate Memorial Day.
Several weeks ago, I crashed our computert, and lost our email addresses.
We would love to hear from you and your family, and others at dwayho@aol.com.

[Carsten Schermuly]

Dear Anne,

we also have to take the unwanted things willingly.
Saturday and Sunday Johannes and Andreas, two of our elder sons came home. Last week Andreas finished a part of his studies by good test notes. We spent a good common time. We got alot of visitors, our children do have many friends and the whole Sunday afternoon was filed by laughters, guitar sound and singing.

Today came the Jesus Film Project Newsletter, - The Risen Christ...and the film "JESUS" - this Newsletter is always a joy.

quotation ---

PROJECT NEWS
......


May 29, 2007 .....
The Risen Christ...and the film "JESUS" Click here to read her story right now...

Hello Carsten,

They have blessed, lifted up, encouraged and even stunned thousands of partners of the "JESUS" film...reports right from the mission field.

Your heart will surely be stirred by one of these reports--the day the risen Christ appeared in a dream to a woman in a closed, restricted country.

You can read her amazing story here...and what happened next...

Then I encourage you to sign up and read many other exciting reports, one each week for the next 31 weeks. It's our way of celebrating what God is doing through "JESUS," and a tremendous milestone...the 1,000th translation of the "JESUS" film, soon to be completed this year.
Jim Green With a heart of thanks for you,

Jim Green
Executive Director

--- end of quotation

The link points to
http://www.jesusfilm.org/progress/special/070529/index.html#drop

Freedom is a gift, not earned - only and only grace.



Hearty greetings to Dwayne!
I love you,

Carsten

[Carsten Schermuly]

Oh - I forgot a big chapter.

you do not like to see that - but there are still no things changed.

I do work in common with my "girl - friend", ha, ha! She is sooo nice! She really is an angel, sent by the Lord. While she has overtaken the phone and letter services, I got more time to dive deeper in internet - knowledge and we had some giant hits via Google AdSense and AdWords.
By her help I get so many more money - you might imagine, how I am blessed and happy by this lutheran Lady - understandig herself as a real sister to me.

The fact, we have found another and do understand us best (never we have seen us from face to face - we only do know us via internet) is a visible sign of the love of the Lord.

http://www.relato.de/walk.gif

[Anne and Dwayne Hood]

Send us (anyone on Naznet) your email addresses. We lost our email list when the computer crashed. Anne

[Carsten Schermuly]

The sure way

Dear Anne - once you like to write to someone on NazNet under a really actual eMailaddress, click the name in the Forum, get the profile and "send eMail" (in neighbourship to "send private message" via forumsoftware). This way you can be sure, not to get a not working eMailaddress.
Good, Bye, Mylady!