News & Views
DNA Germany launches
written by nigel rivers
published on 1st December 2008
It was a cold day (October 13th) in Herrnhut in South-Eastern Germany where a group of young people waited, pens held in expectancy, for the first words of DNA-Deutschland to be spoken. And the words? “Herzlich willkommen an DNA Deutschland!” Both the trainees and the DNA-D team are a mixture of English and Germans, a good picture of the international feel that this branch of DNA has at its roots. All the teaching is delivered in English and German, which is a great opportunity for the linguistically fluent to hear it all twice.
The trainees left the first week to travel to their placements, one in the far southeast of Germany (Zittau) 2 to churches in Berlin and one just north of Berlin in Oranienburg.
Two weeks later Pete and Caz from the DNA UK team came to Berlin to deliver some intense teaching on discipleship. On the second day of the 2-day block the trainees all pleaded for a break form the teaching, so they took an hour out to chat and walk in the late autumn sunshine in the woods just outside the city of Berlin.
