Like Abel Tesman, Dutch seafarer and explorer, first know European to reach islands of New Zealand, we also have to explore outside of region Zeeland to find right behind a border a very specific community. In Ekeren, International Church of Antwerp has the services at local school. Sometime they use gym, sometime theatre of the school, today coffee room. It is a gathering of people coming from different cultures and different backgrounds. Coming from all continents, coming from all generations.
It is
almost a miracle, that in such variety something common could be created.
Contemporary world struggles to build multinational society and here it looks
so simple. Joined together, surrounded in a open circle around mystery of
cross.
Contrarily,
there is a traditional and rooted community in Goes we have also visited the
very same day. Jan and Tessa - couple living in the house for sale, while they
are looking for bigger one to give their coming child a space -
become a face through which we could enter and experience this community.
Hospitality of these people doesn’t have boundaries. Good food, interesting and
deep stories, a hundred minutes long service were generous enough.
One
has to be just thankful for the world, life in all those colors and people
fighting to life in it.
Maroš, Czech Republic
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