Our Student Congregation (Studenten Gemeinde) in Hamburg, Germany, had received special gifts from an American congregation. We received a sack of wheat ower and a box of powdered eggs and a bag of powdered milk. It was a few days before Christmas Eve and we had carefully divided those precious goodies among the 60 of us. We could now dream of filling our bellies with pancakes. How wonderful!
But before we went on our ways home we decided to go across the street where some 30 families of refugees had found shelter in an abandoned air-raid shelter. There were no electric lights but our candles shed a warm light on those parents and children huddled on the floor against the cold concrete walls. We sang Christmas carols clutching our paper bags with precious gifts of love from some Christians in the USA.
And then it happened. Almost simultaneously we handed our bags of future pancakes to those families and then we sang again with real joy in our hearts. Suddenly we were not that hungry anymore. Thank you, people from somewhere in the USA. You made 30 hungry refugee families and us very happy.
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