Hallo!

Our first days in Dresden have been full of fabulous photo oppotunites. Our first full day here, the Dietz took us to Altstadt (old city) where all the historic buildings are. There is also Neustadt, (new city) which is where the 3 girls I’m serving with and I live. It’s where a lot of cafés and restaurants are located. The 3 other girls have short biographies that you can see if you visit the hope for Saxony link over to the right. Two of them, Sarah Fisk and Jennifer Chapman, have blogs linked over there as well. We have a cute apartment with a great view of an old church right across the street. The supermarket and Laundromat are both within close walking distance. For everything else, we take the tram. We’ve actually gotten pretty good at figuring out which number to take to get us around. It’s pretty exciting… or for me at least. Our ministry is starting off with prayer walking around neighborhoods, and hopefully, the more we go to cafés and local places, we’ll be able to build some relationships with people. Pray that God will put some people in our path. We’re also thinking about trying to get conversation partners to help us with the language. Three of the four of us have taken some German, but none of us are anywhere near a normal level of communicating with other German speakers. We’re doing our best by watching TV, almost all in German, and using the little we know when we talk to each other. I’ll write more soon. For now, here are some pictures!

All the girls in Meißen!

Very Gothic church in Meißen, Germany. The city is known for its beautiful porcelain.

This bridge is called "The Blue Wonder"

My first REAL german meal. Yum yum! I drank it with a Spezi, which is a combination of orange soda and coke.

The Zwinger.. well part of it. I was standing in the courtyard and it was all around me!

Semperoper. The opera building in downtown Dresden (also known as Altstadt). I tried to get a better picture, but a large group with a lot of yellow jackets was hindering me!

The Parade of Princes (or Dukes as I've also seen). Depiction of the rules of Saxony. The tiles survived the bombing and were put back together.

The Frauenkirche, or in English the Church of our lady. Destroyed in 1945 in the allied bombing and finally rebuilt in 2005. The darker stones are made of the original building.

Catholic church built by Augstus. He converted to Catholicism in order to become King of Poland.