On May 7th, 2017, Pastor Wolfgang D. Herz-Lane (1st row, 2nd from left), together with congregation members and other participants of a travel group from the Delaware-Maryland Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, planted a silver linden tree on behalf of Christ the King Lutheran Church in Cary, North Carolina, USA.
On May 21st, 2017, just two weeks after the planting of the tree in the Wittenberg Luthergarten, Pastor Wolfgang D. Herz-Lane planted an apple tree as partner tree for Christ the King Lutheran Church in Cary, North Carolina, USA.