Candle Light Dinner

The weekend after Fashching, the BFA community put on Candle Light Dinner. This is an outreach to the Germans. This year the theme was "Sing Freedom!" Both a BFA adult choir and student choir sang Gospel Songs and told the story of Harriet Tubman. It was a wonderful presentation of Christ's love in both German and English.

Here are both the BFA choirs practicing for the big performance. There was a performance on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Needless to say, everyone was very worn out after this!

When the students were not preforming during practice they found many ways to entertain themselves. Dutch Blitz is a favorite game!

Here "B" and "E" pose for the camera. These seniors enjoy their last Candle Light Dinner performance.

This is "R", she is one of the girls at Palmgarten Dorm. She had a solo and did an excellent job using the gifts God has given her for His glory. Many German people commented that this was the best performance they have seen of the Candle Light Dinner.

Romania Team

Here are some of the female students going to Romania to serve the Lord there over spring break.

There are the two token guys on the trip. They have 7 female students and 2 adult female leaders. Way to go GUYS!

This spring break I have the opportunity to co-lead a team of 9 BFA students to Romania. We are going to Fildelphia Christian School. This is a Christian school for Romanian children. They have about 500 students there, so it is much bigger than BFA. They have about 90 boarding students. This is the group of people we are going to focus on. They have much less space than BFA boarding students an do not have the activities that the average BFA student can participate in. As a group we hope to encourage the boarding students with evening activities of games. We will also be helping out in the English classes for all of the students. It will be a huge learning experience for us all.

At one of our meetings I had the team do a team building activity called the "Birthday Rope." They had to stay on the rope at all times and get into the correct order of their birthdays. It was a great time!

Two of my Palmgarten girls get to go on the trip with me: "K" & "N". I am so happy to have them with us. They are both seniors and will add a lot of leadership to the team!

Fasching

Downtown Kandern-Hauptstrasse

On Feb. 21 the town of Kandern celebrated Fasching. This is the holiday before Lent where everyone can do whatever they want to do without having to feel any guilt. As I understand it, sometime people switch partners or participate in whatever activity they would like too over this holiday. There was a large parade here in Kandern where people dressed up in scary costumes and act out various activities. We did not allow the girls in our dorm to attend. Then at Lent everyone gives up something. The also have large bond fires after the Fasching celebration to get rid of the evil spirits. As you can imagine, it was a good time for the BFA community to be in prayer for the Kandern community and for the staff and students of BFA.

As a way of decoration, the people will string up undergarments or flags across the street to celebrate Fasching.