Photos from December

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Christmas in the Germany Frankfurt Mission


Christmas book compiled by Carolyn
Letters and photos from family and friends.

Background showing multiple
screen shots from our zone conferences.





Our 89 New Missionaries!

On December 31 we traveled to Spangdahlem Air Force Base
for a baptismal interview.
While there an F-16 pilot and his daughter gave us a tour.


On the way home from Spangdahlem
we stopped at the picturesque village of Bernkastel-Kues.
This building has pictures of all the Disney princesses
painted in the windows.

Worms Cathedral where Martin Luther was excommunicated.

Martin Luther Monument

On Sunday January 3 we visited the Worms Branch for church.  Worms is an historic location.  It was here in 1521 that Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Catholic Church.

Martin Luther
"In 1521, the pope excommunicated him, and he was called to appear before the emperor at the Diet of Worms to defend his beliefs. Refusing to recant or rescind his positions, Luther was declared an outlaw and a heretic. Powerful German princes protected him, however, until his death in 1546."  Under this protection he translated the Bible from Latin into German.

William Tyndale
"Tyndale, born in England about the time Columbus sailed to the new world, was educated at Oxford and Cambridge and then became a member of the Catholic clergy. He was fluent in eight languages, including Greek, Hebrew, and Latin. Tyndale was a devoted student of the Bible, and the pervasive ignorance of the scriptures that he observed in both priests and lay people troubled him deeply. . . He sought the approval of church authorities to prepare a translation of the Bible in English so that all could read and apply the word of God. It was denied . . . Tyndale nevertheless undertook the challenging work of translation. In 1524 he traveled to Cologne, Germany [also in the Germany Frankfurt Mission], under an assumed name, where he lived much of the time in hiding, under constant threat of arrest." Tyndale was banished from Cologne.  "With the help of committed friends, Tyndale was able to publish English translations of the New Testament."  This was published for the first time in the city of Worms.












 

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