Emphasis Preaching Journal

I wonder how many people have heard the same type of story as this writer has. My grandfather, in broken English, told this story. "Our ancestors responded to Catherine the Great's call for farmers and left Germany to settle along the Black Sea in Bessarabia. (This was in the early 1800s.) They went down, our grandparents, settled there, raised families, and called it home. For many years they lived in Bessarabia, until the winds of change swept through the area; German people lost many of the freedoms they were promised; some lost their land.