Der Garten

One day we went to Der Garten church/cafe/neighborhood hotspot. I loved it. We met the owners, mother and daughter who pretty much run the whole thing they are missionaries from Washington State.. (I think?) They were super awesome. Thursdays and Fridays they invite anyone who wants to come into their cafe for dinner fellowship and worship. Kim is the mother, Thilo is the husband and Bre is the wife. Thilo is really great on the guitar and piano. Something that they do pretty regularly is worship on the subway. So we got on the ringbon which goes all the way around the city of Berlin, and on our first train Heidi and I stopped and talked to this girl name Natalia. but then we stopped in a neighborhood that was more or less a ghetto and we just did worship on the street and evangelism. Dominique and I approached this woman who was very dressed up with bags next to her like she was going on a trip, just waiting for someone. So we asked her if she spoke english and she said yes. So we just started talking to her, she asked us why we where there and a bunch of other things and it was really good because she just asked us so many questions about God and what we believed and she was genuinely interested. It was really great, then we were worshiping, and the presence of God was in the train. We could all feel it, and we were singing How He Loves. It was absolutely incredible. Then a little while later, like 5 minutes we got kicked off the train by 7 security guards. 

We headed back home and on our way we had to take 3 different trains. We change trains so much in Berlin its hard to keep track and remember all of them. Heidi and I wanted to stop for a quick treat at the bakery so we walked ahead of everyone so we could stop quickly. However, it was not quick enough we turned around and saw no one. We thought, what the heck... where did everyone go? Did they board a train already? so we go down into the subway station and we don't see them. We go back outside and we don't see them so we just start walking into the direction we think they went. I was pretty convinced they got on a train because they were gone so fast. SO we ended up walking to the next train station because we don't really know where they were/ how to get there or what train to take so we just walked and just had an instinct it was the right direction. We usually have only our team of 10 but that day we had about a group of about 20 and Heidi and I are the shortest ones so we could easily be looked over. We weren't scared we were actually completely fine. there were 2 search parties going on and finally we found them/they found us. When we got back to Der Garten Dominique Bill and Elisabeth gave us huge hugs and felt so bad for losing us. It was good that we made it because they did board another train and we didn't know which way to even go so thank you God for always watching out for us! Here are some pictures from this place!