LIKE CHILDREN
“Truly I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 18:3). This part of the Gospel is read to his congregation by the pastor of the German Lutheran church, priest Friedrich. This church and village were built by German colonists living near Odessa in Ukraine, as well as many settlements around it: Gross Liebenthal, Hiebeldorf, Mannheim... “We could not choose a better country to live in,” says the German Christina, and the Jew Josef agrees with her, but not because there is something wrong with these lands or the labor ...