Sunday, I buried, at one funeral service, ten of the members of our church who died in the fire.  It was a strange worship service, which I conducted with a loudly sobbing congregation alongside a church in ashes, conducted over open graves.  I never experienced such despair in my whole life.  At first, I could not even begin.  I leaned against a lonely standing fence post and wept, perhaps the first time since I was a child.

Pastor Ernest Thieme         

      St. Peter’s Lutheran Church               

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