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Dr. Jim Dvorak is Vice President Academic and Professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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Father's Day Lunch of Awesomeness!!

So a few years back my wife found a wings recipe that is ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!! For two or three years in a row now, eating these wings has been a Father's Day treat! It's hilarious to watch my kids eat these things. They whine and complain about ho...

Happy Father's Day!

This morning we attended a breakfast for Dads. On each table was a card on which each Dad's children were to fill in the blanks about her or his Dad. My 15-year-old decided to fill one out. Here it is! Enjoy! :-p

Bergen-Belsen POW and Concentration camp

Heads up: this isn't an overly cheery post. This last Friday (May 22), one of our free days, we trained to Celle, caught a couple of busses, and visited the concentration and POW camp at Bergen-Belsen (more info). Some 70,000 people, most of ...

Second LST Party

Last Wednesday evening we had our second social event for our Let's Start Talking project in Hildesheim, Germany. These events are designed to get our readers and the church members together so they can meet each other and, frankly, to have some f...

Time is flying by

It's hard to believe, but today (Wednesday, May 20) marks the halfway point of the Hildesheim LST project for the Dvorak's (Emily an Jonathan will stay longer). We're having a great experience here. Our first week was a good one. We pushed through...

A new week, new readers!

After a wonderful experience at Gemeinde Christi church this morning (Sunday, May 17, 2015), our team got back to work with several readers. One group of five readers were all from a single family. Each member of our team paired up with one person...

Schloss Marienburg (Marienburg Castle)

On Saturday, Susan Bratcher took our group to the Marienburg Castle, which was a birthday present from King George V of Hanover (1819–1878) to his wife Queen Marie (1818–1907) (click here for the story). Compared to other castles around Europe, it...

Tour of Hildesheim

Since we didn't have any readers today, Susan Bratcher (one of the missionaries here in Hildesheim) took us on a walking tour of Hildesheim—which is celebrating its 1200-year anniversary, but the way. Here are some of the highlights of that fantas...

Let the reading commence

Yesterday (Tuesday) was our first day to start reading the LST Gospel of Luke workbooks. We had 6 readers yesterday and 7 readers today (Wednesday). Every member of our team has read with at least one person. Here are a couple "action shots" (I re...

First day in Hildesheim

Even though we had all been awake for more than 24 hours, we had our information meeting last night. We signed up 17 readers so far. More may sign up during the remainder of this week. The readers span a range of ages from teenagers to "older and ...