Wittgenstein.
In the church district of Wittgenstein, the young people have now gone from house to house and collected fruit and vegetables. That’s behind it.
Even today, the memories of Thanksgiving have not faded away. Because: Thanksgiving was celebrated everywhere in the Wittgenstein church district on the first weekend in October. Here are a few examples from different places: Young people were already out and about on Saturday mornings in Weidenhausen, but also in Birkelbach and Birkefehl to collect gifts for the usual Thanksgiving still lifes at the communion table in the choir room. Pastor Berit Nolting was pleased that despite the holidays, catechumens and confidants, sometimes even siblings, brought fruit, vegetables and flowers to the Weidenhausen church, which the young people had received as donations. Volunteers arranged the gift tables around the pulpit, as is the tradition here.
In Birkelbach, however, it is a tradition that girls and boys in particular set off with members of the children’s service team and now also with Pastor Jaime Jung. In the neighboring town of Birkefehl, among other things, two young people who had been confirmed a few months ago were out and about. Presbyterian members of the parish were also involved in the overall campaign. All gifts were intended for the Bad Berleburg-Erndtebrücker Tafel, in the end so much came together that Christiane Bernshausen-Dellori and Regine Homrighausen were able to bring more than two trunk loads of food from Birkelbach to Erndtebrück.
Donations for the Bad Berleburg-Erndtebrücker Tafel
Even if at the evening service by Pastor Kerstin Grünert and the team in Erndtebrück under the heading “About life and enjoyment”, thanks were deliberately given not only for the strictly necessities of life, but also expressly for the things that simply make life more beautiful, were also Here the collected donations are intended for the local table.
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Just like in Eslohe at the jubilee service for the 75th anniversary of the Evangelical Petri parish and at the harvest thanksgiving service of the Gleidorf parishes in the Christ Church in Schmallenberg, both parishes belong to the Wittgenstein parish and both collected for the Mescheder Caritas panel. Pastor Ursel Groß quoted a prayer in Schmallenberg that took a closer look at the Lord’s Prayer: “Give us today our daily bread, many people around the world pray that, but for many the table is not set. You can’t say thank you.”
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So the Gleidorf pastor was certain: “Give us today our daily bread, we don’t just pray for ourselves. Help us, God, that we help to distribute your daily bread where it is needed.” Christine Liedtke summed it up in a similar way in prayer. She had first preached on Sundays at the big Berleburg thanksgiving service in the museum on Rothaarsteig, after which there was a service on Tuesday afternoon at the Girkhäuser Frauenhilfe in the Easter meeting.
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There the Berleburg and Girkhausen pastor formulated in the prayer of intercession: “God, we thank you that you have wisely ordered the world. Our little mind can’t really grasp how everything is connected and how it influences each other. Help us not to disturb this order too much. God, we’re thinking of the people who don’t have enough to eat. Let them share in our wealth. Let’s think globally – and understand that we have to share.”
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