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Category Archives: biographies and other stories
At the local hospital
We’ve not been in hospitals too often. At least not lately. Angelika was asked at the “Evangelisches Krankenhaus der Paul Gerhardt Stiftung“ here in the Lutherstadt Wittenberg, when last she was hospitalized. It was with the birth of our last … Continue reading →
Posted in biographies and other stories, Gedankensplitter, Uncategorized
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Tagged Angelika, Ev Krankenhaus, Malaria, Paul Gerhardt, Tick bite fever, Virus
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Rainy Saturday
It’s Saturday. It’s raining softly and I’ve got time to think of this and that. It’s funny, how you pump into so many people, who have so much in common and get to make so many new friends here at … Continue reading →
Posted in biographies and other stories, Family and friends, Gedankensplitter, Uncategorized
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Tagged CTS Ft.Wayne, Deaf, Gunslinger, Joh 5:24, Kramer, navy, Psalm 23, rain, Sacrament, Stephen King, Word
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Weber memories in Murrayfield 2017
Looking back at 2017 recalls old Moses’s reminder: “Our years quickly pass and we fly away.” (Psalm 90:10) We’ll remember my father’s blessed passing just a day after my birthday even as we miss his booming laughter and easy smile … Continue reading →
Posted in Articles from South Africa, biographies and other stories, Family and friends, From Africa, Histories, biographies and other stories, Rundbrief, Uncategorized
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Tagged Addis Abeba, Angelika, Cape of Good Hope, Christmas, Christoph, Detlev, Friederike, Kenya, LTS, Matthias, Murrayfield, Rome, Rubida 196, Rugby, Seminary, Springbok, weber, Wittenberg
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Webers in Murrayfield: Rückblick 2017
Webers Rundbrief aus Murrayfield 2017 Rückblickend ist auch dieses Jahr eilig vorbei gerauscht: „Es ist als flögen wir davon.“ (Ps.90,10) Das selige Sterben meines Vaters einen Tag nach meinem Geburtstag wird uns bei bleiben, mehr noch aber sein herzhaftes Lachen … Continue reading →
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Tagged 2017, Angelika, Christoph, Detlev, DLV, EDUSA, Familie Weber, Friederike, Hochzeit, Honours, Kapstadt, Law School, Lehre, LLB, Magister, Murrayfield, Prag, Rom, Rugby, Rundbrief, UP, Wilhelm, Wittenberg
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Rogue Lawyer (John Grisham)
I’ve confessed before, that I like reading John Grisham. Travelling for a few hours on Kenya Air and without a workable loudspeaker (I wanted to watch the film “Bucketlist” with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman ), I somewhat grudgingly scanned … Continue reading →
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Tagged John Grisham, Review, Rogue Lawyer
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Obituary for missionary E.A.W.Weber DD DD
On Saturday, the 9th September 2017 missionary E.A.W.Weber DD DD was buried in Lüneburg, KZN in the presence of his mourning wife Karin and eight of their nine children and eight of their nine sons-and-daughters-in-law with most of the … Continue reading →
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Tagged Bishop Maragelo, Cemetery, Committal, communicator, CTS Ft.Wayne, Dr. Karl Böhmer, FELSiSA, Funeral, hymns, isiZulu, LCSA, LTS, Ntsimane, Professor Dr. Volker Stolle, Rev. E.A.W.Weber DD, Rev. Kurt Schnackenberg, Rev. P.C.Weber, Rev. Rüdiger Gevers, St. Peter and Paul, Welbedacht
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Pianos, trumpets & marmite sandwiches
That’s definitely one of the privileges of being a pastor’s and missionary’s kid: Sitting at table with pastors, teachers, bishops and other friends of the holy Christian church. One of these friends was Onkel Siegfried Karl Hermann Damaske (*25.5.1932 … Continue reading →
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Tagged Bleckmar, damaske, Posaunengeneral, Tswana
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+ Baptizatus sum +
This day in 1961 I was baptized into the very body of my beloved Lord and only saviour Jesus Christ and into his holy Christian Church for the forgiveness of all my sin, released for good from the power of all evil, death … Continue reading →
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Tagged Baptism, Grace, means of grace, Roodepoort, Sacrament, Salvation
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Godfather on friendship, family and engagement to marry …
Here’s the address given at yesterday’s engagement celebrations of Matthias & Chantalle: 1Pt5,7 Verlobungsansprache & hymn sheet: Niebuhr & Dedekind Verlobung
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Tagged 1Pt5:7, ancient, Anxiety, Care, Casting, Celebration, Custom, Engagement, Family, Friendship, German, Godfather, Italian, Klingenberg, Mafia, Niebuhr, Parents, Personal, Sicilian, Son, Tradition
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Herrenhuter readings for Thursday, the 30th October 2014
For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness. (Psa 107:9 KJV) And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. (Joh 1:16 KJV)
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Tagged fill, fulness, goodness, Grace, hungry, Joh 1:16, longing, Ps 107:9, receive, satisfies, soul
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