Members of the choir of St. John's Lutheran Church in Orange, CA (Bill Heidi, director) went on a concert tour in Germany. We sang in the small, old church in Leipzig, but it had become the new SELK church. It had no real altar and a rustic cross leaned against the wall. About 50 people attended. But for me, the real moment in history was after the concert---I shook hands with 6 Iranian members of the church. We were told most of them had walked from Iran. We didn't have a common language, but I nodded and with my eyes I told them God would take care of them.

Ruth Moore, Anaheim, CA