OUR NEW LIFE in BLACK FOREST

We have had a very busy, but productive several weeks in Kandern, our new home in the Schwarzwald of southern Germany. We love our small city of Kandern and are making new friends within the German church and international school communities. Our only disappointment is this 2 month process to get DSL (made request 3 weeks before we arrived), setting up phone and internet - a surprise for us in this well-organized, meticulous culture!

FIRST ACTIVITIES!
Attending our local Kandern Free Evangelical German Church and making new contacts there.

Exploring with our neighbors the nearby, smaller town of Sitzenkirch, where Hannah's middle school building is (Sarah will be at the main Kandern high school building). Pictures above are from the walk.

Traveling by train and bus to the large city of Freiburg for our visa process and paperwork filing. And we met a member of another nearby evangelical church on the bus!

Visiting smaller city of Lörrach on Swiss border to inquire about our German driver's license.

We bought season passes for the girls to swim in the Kandern city pool - a chilly 68 degree temperature water - the Germans don't mind it, and neither do our kids!

Rob went to a regional church planters' meeting near Freiburg and also to the city of Müllheim for an interdenominational conference event called ChristusTag, where different churches of the region coming together and challenging the attendees to bring the hope of Jesus into the world. Rob connected with JANZ Team mission leaders and they went out into the city in the afternoon, using a questionnaire to start spiritual discussions with people on the streets. See pictures of the conference here below: