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the parish center of st. mark's lutheran church in berlin state it's district. it's been functioning as an emergency reception center since the beginning of march, when the 1st ukrainian refugees arrived in germany during the nazi era. the building house, the senate of the confessing church, which opposed the war. people made homeless by bombing raids, found refuge here. now the parish is offering emergency accommodation once again, providing food and care for 80 people the longest from his from for if it was 90, he shipper, i'm certain i have a guardian angel taking care of me. and i'm willing to cram off. he brought me to this place if you say, you will see if a buddy of allison pleased him. my family has always been very religious on them. we went to church a lot magellio in soviet times. funny. we suffered greatly from repression pushed us national to reorder position his article. many refugees spend

a large part of the day keeping in touch with relatives back home. the rest of the time they're finding their feet and getting to know berlin. ja cannot troubleshoot the parishioners help every way they can and would, would, would, would people helps you brennan's people garage on among them? nothing's normal any more since the war started. shall i miss my father and my big brother were in a foreign country. brought all the other there for so i no matter what life throws at me, then i'll adat i like people and i like talking to them real quick. i show career miles. i mean you dollars will as of this book? well, i was supposed to go to the hospital in khaki to be treated there. then the missile started flying. the hospital no longer exists. it was a little bit of a good,

really thought, i hope they'll be able to help me here in germany. yellow, available, most of the parish center provides basic services for most of the refugees. groceries abort with donations. pastor carolyn marie, good foot is delighted with the donors generosity and how quickly the project came together. canal socialism put us all st til martin. we always have a lot of fresh produce fruit tomatoes and of course lots of potatoes, lemons, onions. so if you, if those are the things most need it on the whole food to cook, available, or caretaker, remodeled the house, cleared everything out. we arranged for beds through the brandenburg branch of the german red cross. i organized the donations and recruited a lot of volunteers to how comedy and after 6 days we were ready to welcome our guests here. hadn't got everything was well prepared for that at the refugees. so need clothes. they weren't able to pretty much with them. yep.

mm hm. 9 o'clock. i come by yet some that few. we've always had a clothing bank, exact, but now we have a lot more space and have labeled the items and made them more available so that anyone can help themselves at any time if our guests have responded very well. once they choose things, they like things they need after fleeing their country switch. when the whole operation is dependent on volunteers for the inexperienced interacting with refugees is often an emotional rollercoaster. this is the, the avoid with the gun l. i must say the refugee is very comfortable here. nothing after just 3 or 4 days, they're smiling as a vendor that plan hill my d. c. m class, but moderate, so cruel. switched by so awful, so terrible what they've gone through as to what i see on tv or here on the radio or from people to the extent that we can communicate a bit. so i have to admit it brings tears to my eyes. that's good. got it. just

incredible, ah, in i've been switched on. abner, within 12 hours we had everything we needed to feed tween 80 and a 100 people aggregate us for showing christianity in practice here. so to speak, hang on, one of the members of our church and all the volunteers who had never done anything in the parish before or helped out are demonstrating it here. i think every one of these that i put with were you involved with the church previously gone it that they live as it been kathy me now again, mine or no, not at all. it was over. i'm not involved in the parish either, but not for any negative reasons. speak of it. we just never made contact. but i'm

fully integrated here, and it's a lot of fun. it's helping people to help themselves with him. when you see that you're helping people, it makes you feel a bit better on him. and even if it's only cleaning, taking up the rubbish of wiping down the kitchen or whatever. creative vision doesn't blizzard, but faith doesn't come into it. now are there any? it's mitch, does it well not in the sense that i'm now involved in the church, but it's faith in humanity that counts the it of compassion. just helping people where you can hear from uncle. ah, the lutheran church of the holy trinity in berlin's charlatan book district. a benefit concert to raise humanitarian aid for ukraine. music by international artists. some of them from war torn syria

vamp manhattan. it warms my heart to think that we were in a similar situation with our syrian friends when there was war in syria. and there is still war in syria. they click on our m enough to clique in that our syrian friends are now supporting us in this difficult situation. visit us on to the the other side that thank you so very much. it was john as a 15 dice. ah says the start of the russian war of aggression, you train, they have been dozens, even hundreds of concerts like this to send a message of solidarity to ukrainians. ah, what the post to realize is that it's only a truck in the ocean. v

as in here it is m house. michelson. be griffin, i'm on sky height. we're throwing big words around at this house, liberty, justice and peace. what you can only get those things and small coins tighter today i think we've experienced here on a small scale. and what is can be like when people come together in the house under one roof? wanted him saying got under the blessing of god to share joy and music with each other tight, but when they're also united and spirit difficult times. however, i do ask that you also help at the exit with large coins, also preferably with rustling bills, russian and china and haitian. the constant organizers are determined that the donations not disappear into a large part and be spent on general projects in ukraine. on the contrary,

they have very specific aims and their ideas are sometimes controversial, providing equipment for ukrainian fighters, for instance, 1st aid medical packs. so the german lutheran church is collecting funds to supply military goods, albeit in a broad sense of the term. is that appropriate? as chris understood as a churches, we've always supported humanitarian organizations and humanitarian efforts to what we did today was to collect donations for 1st aid and emergency medical equipment for something i can support my artist target unless it's a sad occasion. but of course, we also want to help a little with our donations and express solidarity solidarity. so i was wondering, i think it will, one can do right now, what these people are doing, donating, we all feel better when we do that. i think even if one only makes us our donation,

it's incredibly important. ah, the former so called house the statistics built during the communist era. part of the derelict building has been taken over by salon ukraine. it's a project at the berlin city mission, a church based organization providing social services for people in difficult situations. the cafe is a meeting place for refugees from ukraine, helping them find their feet in a strange country. they have reached germany and are safe. but what now, what comes next often gonna, they want to know how to find a job where they can take language courses, whether children can go to school or kindergarten. and so there are problems here.

they can get information and exchange ideas. how's the cafe is open to people of all ages. it's about helping people help themselves. not distributing handouts them at all, thus isn't coffee, okay? half a ukraine is about meeting as equals. the 2 ukranian women here are highly qualified professionals. one is a business coach, the other is an economist. they know what they compatriots need to mark up. they both have lots of contacts and are continuously inviting people. they know you have skills that are useful to the refugees, or who simply want to get to know the oil casino re a bulk on cooks regularly at cafe ukraine. chatting at the cocktail bow with summer on the way. she's now mixing fruit cocktails for her. delighted customers by the business woman has always been fascinated by what a good bartender can achieve. now said chance to prove she's got what it takes

when you are a girl. ah, most of the time i really loved them. they asked me like, what do you prefer? something sweet, something fi? see something like something to friends come from fresh. what do you once you even cannot name, can say anything. they just can make it perfectly with for you. what they just even talk to him. what's the secret? more than just to drink the bartender office an opportunity to converse, to enjoy life a little. that ease is the pain of being a stranger of leaving home to start a new life somewhere else. for me it's always my home. where is that? where i, what is my family? there is my home there. yeah, i miss a lot of i mean, a lot of just a minute or, but

a guy as is august, the pastoral care has an important role to play in the refugee and will crisis. some people arrive hair and at 1st they come down. then after a few weeks, the trauma becomes apparent. it's not easy to leave your home, your house, your familiar surroundings, and start afresh in a foreign country. you don't know what will happen to the people you've left behind, husbands and fathers, minutes. this is a stressful situation and of course, arriving in a foreign country and not speaking the language is also very difficult. we have a psychologist here who office has services. people can approach her individually and arrange a session to fire learning to cope with anxiety. natalia cova leanne co teaches helpful skills through educational games. many of the women are worried sick about their husbands, sons and brothers caught up in the war with them did the some, i believe in the law brought 1000000 if i blooming young. but the most of this is really the most painful issue. and not only for me who has family in ukraine,

my family is very important to you. i want us to be together. but i don't know if we can go back or away and just me bring you my own up there more than we're getting over. he got it up, rolled his faith play in his brutal question that some 78 percent of ukrainians identify as eastern orthodox christians. how comfortable do they feel among lutherans? i found them did they? me another by shy, but we have different religions, but that doesn't determine whether people help each other or not. if any of that for me it's just the opposite. illinois, it's a great human story by shire, we're all just people now and we help each other regardless of nationality or culture. you have ethan. that's pretty cool. i thought i had the what you thought on mash eyes. tova is working at the sewing machine in a side room of cafe ukraine. she's a fashion designer and had to give up her studio in cave,

sorta. so this is, she fled the war without any prospects. now, after just a few weeks, she's able to stand on her own 2 feet again. so several of our war through losses was, was less, but of those out we have the opportunity to work. and that's very important to us. ah, it's not just about survival and money. it's about keeping your personality as the right. knowing who you really are. both storm wake normally watches this, knowing that you're some one thought that you can do something for what would you something at that was she was on the last a fashion studio under the roof of the berlin city mission. marcia, i said 12 knows her hosts and motivated by spirituality and want to provide pastoral care. this may be important to others, she says, but not for her work linea, near,

near to whereas if the cookie, it doesn't matter to me what religion it is your choice for. if i feel and in a need to go to church and i'm in another country, i go to the local church and the story with a clear conscience, silk, i thought i'm open about it. he up to me, it's like withdrawing money from another banks, atm bunco op. in other words, it's all the same account yet the more than they thought the church of saint simian in berlin's quotes beg district, the cities refugee church, past the con has invited mostly refugees, mostly ukrainians, to a special service. oh, a flag her that's most delicious. who has been to tag is fun. i'm. i'm really excited quite a few have registered if my step damage may i mention al from it india sister horn dear, you're 60 years old. christie the died. i want to introduce people to the story.

for me, the story of jesus christ means god is in people. is those crystals? well you don't necessarily need jesus christ understand that of his kite and not everybody here does. so michael, on, but it's one possibility and i want to reflect and consider this thought that god became human. oh my god is still in humans today on death. i'm firmly convinced that when i meet god, i also meet him and people him off immensely. beginner can now does order to let out movement axle refugees were accommodated in this church temporarily. simply to give them a roof over their heads. 20 caps under financing. now they've moved on and found apartments, but they're happy to return. and to day this is special supper. ah,

the 1st surprise, the music is provided by a couple one russian. the other ukranian. ah, if i am, this is my the freedom m that we celebrate this meal of peace and the name of abraham sarah and hagar. doesn't embed manville woman named on friday to hand when we pray. we do it like this. we take our right hand on the leg then and put the thumb of this right hand in the left hand and hold it close to the heart. and we pray in silence for the people who are there in our hearts em cindy, our friends, our family, i'm happy everybody, we love and stuff. amelia. allah deville even.

doesn't have a very simple recall board ty, celebrating the lord's supper with predominantly orthodox christians, is not a problem for lutherans back of the dean and stayed out in tifton to believe his denomination is irrelevant. old baptize christians may receive holy communion with 2 eyes. so however, passed to con has something else up her slave on flat values of nathaniel on them unhappy, they flatly hit when jesus was with his disciples van and he suddenly knelt down to wash their feet of that will do that afterwards. al from it, i've got a tub here and i've got towels and i've brought the best baby shampoo we had at home and i'd be very happy if as many of you as possible would let me wash your feet today. is fun. mad if is a veteran, laughed and hide it. the thought of the past to washing their feet doesn't sit well with the ukrainian refugees. i am that's precisely the idea. jesus wanted to show his amazed disciples that serving people is the most important thing. even in

performing a menial task, i would call it an it's chris caesar did it to his disciple. he left the teacher and he did it with us. didn't saw it. that same thing. the role for pastor con, meeting refugees who want nothing more than to return home is a new experience. does have a soul of me. i lived the sort of ethic me m lag name. i've never experienced anything like this before to resign like best and say no, we can't go back now. and actually we're looking for a long term solution gift, but i hope the refugees don't remain strangers for long. as i help the issue of

diversity becomes more prominent in the church and that we realize we're a church of immigrants and a society of immigrants and when crops were also a society of migrants economic, maybe we ourselves need to see more clearly what a privileged as not to have to migrate turn privilege as in sam leon nif make the on some lesson. ah, in spite of their initial doubts, the refugees a deeply moved. ah ah, yes, you have seen a good enough but any more? thank you for great support. we didn't expect to receive so much help in our difficult situation. any other than the story douglas harvey and albany or that people here were so warm hearted at those on the national do you them good. mm hm.

thank you so much about with here. so when we arrived in germany and took our 1st step into this church, we felt at her his unusually bug won't get a minute. ready ah ah ah, the kinds of vill hm. memorial church on berlin's christmas and dom boulevard here

every night since the beginning of the russian invasion, there are prayers for peace and a short sermon to day. an appropriate story from the bible. it's about the people of nineveh, who abandoned their old like to save themselves from destruction and to bring the rulers to their senses. and i'd stop for the clinic for the navy. com stunt alfonze. i'm torn click because i'm poor poor up. when jim is warning, reach the king of nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal ropes, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat down in the dust. and this is the proclamation he is to you to maneuver and let them give out that evil ways and their violence. who know like, god may yet relent. multiple people, if never show that to change, you have to leave, you'll come down and,

and then the rulers will also be comfortable about changing it. and this is how a free society, a democracy work kind of, there is no up there. there is only us via and we don't wait for orders from 100. we act 100. confronted with the crises and conflicts of our time. so we all need to change. it's we who must repent on v as into the own can listen. prayer or practical help intercession or shelter food and drink, which is more important. but with school fund it was wonderful. i would reply with the saying by detroit, bonham, for that it's about banks give us about praying and doing what is just my foolish. does that help on have a put it on and on, but it means, of course, that you both are dependent on each other. only praying is just as problematic as only acting undoing. think it is. i'd say that both these aspects are very

important. and of course, the desire for justice has been a very profound a biblical based wish. the thousands of years told. the hebrew prophets speak of it again and again. so prayer and action belong very closely together and it was on mm . ah ah, with

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