What a busy few days these have been! We had our first official concert for tour on Thursday night in Morges, Switzerland. Our original plan for the day was to go and spend the day in Morges, but we woke up to rain. Instead, we went and toured the Cailler Chocolate Factory with some free samples at the end (I guess that means we can't complain about the weather). Later in the afternoon we drove to Morges and had a delicious meal of fresh Perch fillets from Lake Geneva. We then went to the Temple of Morges for our concert. We were joined at the concert by President Friedrich and the Alumni Tour Group.
Friday, we drove into France to Paris where we arrived at our hotel in Zone 3 at Joinville le Pont. A few of us went into the city that night via the RER railway. After walking around for a few hours (and not checking the official train times), the groups all flocked to the RER station to take the train back to the hotel. A certain group of people who will go unnamed had a full 30 seconds between rushing onto the platform and the last train of the night pulling into the station.
Saturday was our free day in the city. We all took the RER into the city, and were let loose into Paris. I'm sure thousands of photos were taken by all of the choir members, and you can probably check them out on the social medias as they get uploaded over the next month.
Sunday the bus got packed up again and drove to Frankfurt, Germany. Our second concert of tour was held at Trinity Lutheran Church. Here we had a delicious meal of tacos prepared by the many Minnesotans who all seem to have flocked to the Motherland to work in the church. Obviously, the Minnesota Nice attitude of the people of the church helped construct a great atmosphere for the concert. After the concert, we dispersed to our homestays for the night.
Today, out of celebration of Pentecost, we were able to go and proclaim the Gospel at various locations throughout Frankfurt. Out of the spirit of Pentecost, we sang our vast repertoire of multiple languages. It was really neat to be able to experience a festival in a different country that speaks a different language where there were people gathered from many different places. It's astonishing to think of how we can unite under the language of our music to proclaim the Gospel message that is universal to all languages. Regardless of what language we speak, we all gather to hear the Word of God proclaimed. Being able to go about this today at the Pentecost festival makes me more and more excited for the concerts that we will be putting on over the next two weeks.
-Steven Whitney (Graduated Senior, Tenor II)
One of the workers through the LCMS Eurasian Mission Office followed us around today, and put together a video of what the choir has been doing for the past couple of days. The link to the YouTube video is attached.
LCMS Eurasia Mission A Cappella Video Link
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