Frankfurt Airport

We're at the Frankfurt Airport waiting for our flight to Rome.  It's 2:30 pm German time, but only 5:30 am L.V. Time. Confusing for the body! We stopped to get a cappacino and saw the Landbergs! They are a young couple who moved from Henderson to N.Y. City seven months ago. They lived in Coventry near the Von Eschens. It's crazy to travel half-way around to world and see people you know in a huge airport at the same time you are there!  Today, we'll settle into our hotel and plot our strategy for seeing the sites of Rome. Of course, we'll visit the Pope and encourage him to ordain women and let male priests marry!  Maybe if he saw an Intern as capable as I.P. Kaitlyn, he'd change his mind!

Beginnings

We are grateful to our congregation, New Song, for supporting and encouraging us to take a sabbatical in our 10th year of ministry.  With the support of our bishop we received a significant grant from the Lilly Foundation to make this faith heritage journey possible.  It took several months to plan this trip, working with a local travel agent.  Our journey takes us to Rome for six days, Israel for 10 days, a cruise on the Mediterranean which includes a number of Pauline missionary sites, a 6-day car trip through Greece checking out the ancient sites of Corinth, Phillipi, and Thessoloniki, and three days in Wittenberg, Germany, the site of Luther's work and ministry.      

The adventure begins on Tuesday, July 30th, 2013
Pastors David and Marta Poling-Goldenne