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“I can’t believe this was a real day”

By Marie Schuster BVS volunteer Marie Schuster lives and works at the Brot und Rosen (Bread and Roses) Community in Hamburg, Germany, a house of hospitality for homeless refugees. She describes one of her days: My alarm goes off: once, twice, three times und Aufstehen! Since days at my last BVS project at the L’Arche

Shop till I drop

By Katarina Eller, Brot und Rosen Community, Hamburg, Germany My days mostly consist of cleaning, chopping vegetables, and food shopping. Our day begins with devotions in the chapel, with a simple prayer-song-Bible-reading-silence-song-prayer model…. Like a sandwich, or an Oreo cookie. Almost all of the songs come from the Taize movement. (You know you live at

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