hour anymore, all the children stay in the assembly hall, and I was able to understand very well and to take a lot of notes. When Mama wrote down a good sentence in her booklet, I copied that, and I understood other things much more. I one assembly I wrote down even 18 pages. The message is always totally cool and I asked Dad once, how he conceives that all the time. I also look forward always to the installation and deinstallation. At the installation I was allowed to help Jan-Henoch and Ruth to set up a camera. It was so beautiful. And at the deinstallation I was allowed to put away little parts of the big traverse. Many times I collected adhesive tapes and waste from the floor with many children until everything looked like “licked”. Expression of Revival (by Joschua, age 19) During the past decades many songs were generated. A wellknown wisdom says, that where there is revival, there new songs are born. In the midst of all the tribulation which Dad walked through, from the rehabilitation work until today, he composed almost 100 songs, which testify about confidence, perseverance and much more1. That way, together with many other songs nine song collections came into existence, in addition to all oratorios. Most of the other songs (approximately 700) came into existence through the messages of Dad. Johannes Brändli, a staff member of the OCG for many years, got it in his heart all the time to summarize the central ideas of the message into a song. Till this day the fullness of the word flows by this talent again and again into wonderful songs, which 29
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