WEEKLY WORDS WILL RESUME SEPTEMBER 12. I WILL BE TRAVELLING IN SOUTH AMERICA UNTIL THEN. ONLY THE SMALL SIGN 'MENNO'S FERMANJE' DISTINGUISHED THE HOUSE FROM OTHERS IN THE STREET. Three simple windows and a door. Modest living quarters in the…
BASEL, SWITZERLAND OCT 31 - NOV 3, 2005 A SPIRITUAL REVOLUTION IS QUIETLY HAPPENING ACROSS EUROPE TODAY. It's not the radical muslim fundamentalist agenda clogging today's headlines and editorials. Quietly, under the radar, it is spreading and growing, shaping the…
THE FAMOUS ANNUAL MONTREAUX JAZZ FESTIVAL WAS IN FULL SWING at the eastern end of Lake Geneva as our 'Share the Heritage' tour bus passed through last month en route to a destination a further twenty minute's drive to the…
FROM THE OLD WOODEN PRAYER TOWER OVERLOOKING THE GRAVEYARD 'GOTTES AKKER', we looked out over the treetops to the brown-tiled roofs of the eighteenth-century town of Herrnhut. Green and golden fields rolled eastwards towards distant steamclouds rising from a Polish…
WE PARKED OUR BUS JUST OUTSIDE THE STAR-SHAPED DEFENCE EMBANKMENTS AND WALKED INTO THE PICTURESQUE TOWN, just twenty minutes' drive outside of Amsterdam. A large bronze statue outside the first church we came to told us we were headed in…
