Hohegrete Winter Conference

After Christmas, we took off for Western Germany to attend a conference with our local area co-workers. It was an amazing time of renewal and refreshment with some pretty awesome guest speakers and break out sessions about topics ranging from language learning, to marriage and family, how to share and long term education after sharing, along with imparting the essentials of what we truly believe.

The team that came out to take care of our kiddos was incredible and so kind...led by our very own Uncle Chris, our kids learned a ton this week as well.

If you ever have need of a conference site in Western Germany, you should take a look!

This was the view out of the front gate into the village of Hohegrete. It has a one track/stop train station without a ticket counter or kiosk, so you've got to be planning to come and go from here, or else you'd be stuck...not necessarily a bad thing...

This is the main building of the conference center.

As we walked into the village, these are the kinds of homes we saw.

And the rolling hills and valleys looked a bit like this.

I really liked the trees and hills in this area, truly lovely and peaceful.

I can just imagine living on a farm like this one day.

Coming out to pick up my apples would be a big positive!

Little tree lined paths like this were all over the place.

And we often came around the corner to find another set of rolling hills and farms.

Indy was amazed at all the deer stands he saw.

One of the houses, all decorated for the season, that we walked past.

Our kids made some amazing friendships with kids from all over the area and I couldn't possibly post all of the pictures of their friends.

So thankful for the youth group and Uncle Chris' direction.

Dragging Sissi across the floor as we get ready for New Year's Eve.

We stayed up until midnight, thanks to a truly funny talent show that was put on by members of the group. Again, lots of pictures of that, but another time.