Family

Family - News:
On March, 18th in 2009, "Großmutter" unexpecially died in the age of 92 years. Unexpecially because she didn´t suffer because of a desease, she had no pain in anything, didn´t take pills... At noon she walked by feet to her small group with other seniors of our church to meet them, sat down, talked to some friends, and suddenly laid her head back, breathed once a time and then neither more...

Now we are practising to live without her...



Our family is about 8 persons:
Simon (22.10.79), Hanna (30.01.82), Jonas (11.11.83), Christian (05.09.85), Judith (18.05.87), Justin (26.05.90), Ekkehart (03.06.56) und Sabine (02.04.56) .
Since 2000, July Simon and Tanja (21.02.1977) are married. Then in May 2005 Hanna and Jeff (17.08.1975) married. He is an American. The second daughter in law is Romina 02.02.1990). Christian and her married in June, 14th, 2008.

Who else is living in our house? Since September 2004 Martin, our nephew from Flensburg, is living in our house. Since October 2004 he studied in Bochum, which is one of the next towns to Mülheim. Now he is an ingenieur for machines and still living in our house. Also Judith and Justin are still living at home.
Simon and Tanja have their home in Mülheim in Uhlandstr. 23. Jeff and Hanna moved in September of 2006 to USA, Christian and Romina are living with their little son in Oberhausen, the next town to ours. And Jonas moved in December 2008 to an own little hut nearby.

Often there are young people from our youthchurch in our house. It´s their meeting point here. So there is no longer a family but a community with young people. But we enjoy this, also when our refrigerator often shows a leck of food...

The beginning of erverything...
"Everything" gegan in 1978, when Ekkehart and me, Sabine, married in July, 21st in the north of Germany where we are from. In that time Ekkehart was studying theology for to become a pastor. I first was working as a bookseller in a bookstore, but then began to study theology, too. One year later our first son, Simon, was born. That was in october, 1979 in Hamburg. Because we didn´t want to have a single child for a long time, we desided to get the next one, what was Hanna (in January, 30th, 1982) And not much later Jonas was born in November 11th, 1983. Was not so easy to study any longer with two children but when the third came I desided not to finish studying but to stay at home for education of our children. That was the time when Ekkehart had finished his studies and began to work as a pastor in Stade, not far away from Hamburg. In Stade our next children were born: When I was pregnand with Judith, Christian (born in september, 1985) came into our family. We adopted him at the age of 5 some years later. Judith was born in May, 1987, and three years later our last one, Justin, in May 1990.

In 1993 we moved to Mülheim in the "Ruhr Area" because Ekkehart wantet to change his working place. In Mülheim the children grew up, got new friends and relationships, and life became easier for me. I could help in the church, and I liked to get more responsibilities there.
In time I am the church secretary, working half a day in the offive of our chruch. My husband is my boss!



Our grand - babies...
Since 2007 there are two grandchildren: Paul, son of Christian and Romina, and Samira, daughter of Simon and Tanja. They are so cute! In time they learned running so that they experience the world step by step on thier own feet - exhausting for everybody, but - so cute!
There are some pics on this page you can watch. Soon there will be more newer ones.