Today offered quite a unique experience. While Wittenburg is a community that speaks little English as a first language (German of course is first, but many around here grew up also learning Russian during the era of "East Germany") there is a ministry that is offered to those who speak English, both the tourist and the residents.
They offer a weekly worship service on Saturday evenings. The pastor who is covering for these two weeks offered to let me read the Old Testament lesson for the worship service at the Town Church. This is the church that Luther preached at most often. It was very humbling to publicly read the Word of God in this historic Church of the Reformation.
One of the groups performing at the Luther 500 was Alathea, a fantastic duo from Tennessee. Check them out at http://www.alathea.com
We then ended the night with Evening Prayer in the Convention Cetnre. Not nearly as aesthetically appealing as the Castle or Town church, but none-the-less, the word of God was proclaimed and heard, and souls were fed.
Tomorrow the festival will officially end, and I will move on to Berlin for a few days. I hope to post from there as well.
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