 In 1928 he went to Berlin to continue his Theology studies, and there he met and was influenced by Romano Guardini.In 1930 Goes was ordained for the Evangelical Church in Württemberg as a parson in Tuttlingen's main church, and in 1931 became a vicar at the Martinskirche in Stuttgart.In 1933 he began his first rectorate in Unterbalzheim in Illertissen.