By Christine Schulz
The letter, which we sent to PNG two weeks ago:
Dear friends in PNG,
Some time ago our German group had the idea to send you a letter about what is going on in Germany at the moment and what we are doing for our partnership program. Today it´s my turn to send you best greetings and new information from the German group. I hope you all are well and the laplap which is going from parish to parish is still on his way. Many of us are still in contact with some friends from PNG, mostly via internet. That´s great!
I want to inform you a little bit about what we did the last months after our journey to PNG. We thought a lot about how we can inform people about the project and how we can share with them the fruits of our partnership. So we made some evening programs in some parishes. We showed them a lot of pictures and told them about our aims and ideas. Many people said that it is very interesting and that they feel our happiness concerning the PNG-relationship which was a great feedback for us Furthermore we organized some programs for youth groups: Every one of the German members prepared e little program which includes a theme of our project, e.g. about resources. This way we can share our ideas and maybe we can win some new members for our partnership group.
Another big project was the following: In Germany there exist many fruit trees who are not used, so we collected a lot of apples and made juice out of them. This juice we sold in the parishes and the money these people pay is used for our partnership project. Another important thing is that the person who made the juice out of these apples plants some new trees, so it´s good for the climate too, which is a kind of climate compensation for the flights to PNG. Now all the juice is sold and we hope we are able to collect many apples again this autumn.
Now I want to tell you some news about our group members. I think you now that Felix was going to Canada after our meeting in PNG. There he makes a voluntary service. He will come back this summer. In summer Charlotte will travel to some countries in Europe for one year, her first station is Spain. What is more, that Luise is in Bangladesh at the moment. She went in April and will come back in autumn, she makes a voluntary service in a christian community.
Last weekend Daniel was in Leipzig Mission where some members of different partnership programs met. They made a kind of exchange about their experiences. He met a man from PNG too. Hel was from Madang and stays in Germany for three months. He is very engaged against an experiment for the first under water mining in PNG which is very dangerous.
At least I want to tell you that we have a new group member: His name is Falk and works in our church youth like Heike. He supports her because there is a lot of organisation to do for the project. All in all we are hope- and joyful about our partnership and the next exchange in 2014! Many people supported us and we are very thankful that God makes all these great experiences possible! We often miss PNG.
We send you all the best wishes, God bless you all!
Christine and the whole German group.
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