Who are you?

Last blog we were living in the bungalow.  This blog finds us moved into the Sending House.  I wrote about the actual house last blog.  It has been a great move for us.  As much as we liked our bungalow we are now right in the middle of everything going on.  You all know how much we love people and to be right in the heart beat of what we want to do here has been amazing.

We have done many different outreaches with the Reach Global team that is living in the house with us for 7 weeks.  Our team from IHOP comes this week.  We are so excited to have OUR first official team come.  Having teams come from the states has been a dream since we started this whole process. We thought it would be at least another year or two before we would be able to see it fulfilled...God loves to surprise us :)  We will also be working closely with another team from the states for a week.  So this summer we have worked with 3 US teams (surprise)!!  

There is never a dull moment.  If we are not going on outreaches then we are spending our time getting to know the German family that lives in the house with us.  We are also very intentional to reach out to all the people we have met in the different house churches.  We have them over for dinner, go to events with them, or just hang out.  We enjoy just being with them, whatever that might look like.  Relationships have a very high value here and are so important to the German people.  We are happy to oblige.

Last Sunday we took the Reach Global team to a brunch filled with churched and non-churched Germans.  The 4 Reach Global teammates were sitting on the couch together.  A German was talking to me and asked where the Americans were he heard had come.  I pointed to the 4 teammates and said 'they are right there.'  He said 'oh ok so those are the Americans?!' Later I was thinking about it and had to laugh because Ummm Hello I am an American too... I love how comfortable I am here.  I really don't view myself as "different" then the Germans around me.  To me, he and I were just chatting and I didn't feel set apart...like 'Oh I am American and you are German'...why...should I? 

We will bring home many cool God stories from the outreaches and everyday life here.  God has walked with us step by step. We see His hand all around us.  He is so clever in all He does.  Oh a quick God story...I wrote about our "land lords" from the bungalow in my last blog...welllll they came to the German vs USA game party we had HERE at the Sending House a few nights ago.  They got to talk to all the church people here!!! They felt very welcomed and kept saying how much they enjoyed it.  We have invited them back over Friday night for a 4th of July cook out!  How cool is that?  We hope by the time we leave they will feel comfortable enough to start coming to church here.  We are in Germany for over a month and have already started bringing guest to church events!  I love it!

Now that "that part" of my blog is done let's get to the real reason your reading this ;)  I am so grateful and humbled to hear from so many of you about how these blogs reach out and minister to you or how God has been showing you the same things.  I love to hear your stories.  It really encourages me to keep writing. 

I have still been reading Acts (refer to last blog...lol I'm going to have you reading all the blogs to see how everything ties together before to long ;) and I stumbled over a very, very cool sentence. YES, of course, we have all read it and all heard messages preached on it but it hit me hard this time.

WHO ARE YOU?

Acts 19:13-16-quick story background-people were starting to really get into this Jesus fellow. Seven sons of a leading priest were trying to cast out evil spirits saying "I command you in the name of Jesus, whom Paul preaches to come out."  But one time when they tried the evil spirit replied "I know Jesus, and I know Paul, but WHO ARE YOU?"  I am fixated by this question.  "I know and fear Jesus, and I know all about Paul-he is quite the guy walking in the full power of the spirit, BUT WHO ARE YOU-in other words who do you even think you are trying to come up against me." *ouch* that had to hurt..oh wait it did they got the snot beat out of them!!!

These guys thought they got it.  They wanted to borrow someone else's 'power'.  They didn't understand who Jesus could be in them.  That the same power that ran through Paul's veins could run through theirs.  They thought 'it works for Paul so we'll just throw his name in there and maybe it will work for us too.'

WHO ARE YOU?

What a loaded question!  I almost can't wrap my brain around that question.  Who am I?  Who was I created to be?  Who do others say I am?  Do the demons know my name?  Do I know who I am in Christ?  Do I understand the power inside of me or do I try to piggyback off the power of others?  Who am I? 

The next day after I read this Job, a German musician, came to lead morning worship.  He sang a song that really made this come alive even more to me.

      I don't want to ride on somebody else's passion.
      I don't want to find I'm just dry bones.
      I want to burn with unquenchable fire, deep down inside see it COMING ALIVE.
   
      Help me find my own flame.
      Help me find my own fire.
      I want the real thing.
      I want Your burning desire!  (Will Reagan)

WHO ARE YOU?

'We were born to rule-rule over creation, over darkness-to plunder hell and establish the rule of Jesus wherever we go by preaching the gospel of the Kingdom' Bill Johnson

Berlin or Bust

I realize it has been a while since I have written a blog…a long while…shame on me!!  We are in Berlin, Tuesday makes a week.  We are very happy to be in Germany.  It has seemed very easy for us to fall back into the rhythm of things here.  The bungalow that we found is so awesome!!  It is double the size and almost half the price of all the ones we looked at on-line.  The week before we were to come to Berlin we took one last look to see if anything had opened up that would be more comfortable for our family.  This one popped up!  We found out later from the land lord that she had a ton of people want to rent it because it was such an amazing deal!! God orchestrated the timing perfectly for us to have it!!  The location is great.  It's a short walk to the tram so we can hop on and get anywhere we need to go.  There is a nice grocery store that we walk to.  Across the street is a very large pond that we enjoy a daily walk or 2 around.  In the mornings Mike and I walk around it to pray for everything and everyone.  Yes, we pray for YOU!!  

We have met up with many of our contacts and are making new ones almost daily.  Tuesday we spent the afternoon and evening at the Sending House working to repair it. The house is a 300 year old Gardener’s home.  In front of it is a large grocery store called Kaufland.  Where Kaufland is now use to be a castle!  The Gardener lived out back of the castle hence the name…  The castle was bombed out in the war and never rebuilt.  The Gardener’s home somehow escaped damage.  It is a large home with many rooms and bathrooms.  Old and in need of some major TLC but oh the possibilities!

Our land lord wants to have a cook out with us next week!  We have been praying for an opportunity to reach out to her and her family.  The boys have played with her little boy and we have talked to her a few times.  Today she asked if we could get together for a cook out…ummmmm no…just kidding :) God rocks!  

Be encouraged that your prayers and support are hard at work!  We could never be here if it were not for you.  We are humbled to have you stand beside us.  Please continue to keep us in your prayers and if you are not yet supporting us please ask God how you can help!

Stephen   

I have been reading the book of Acts.  I wanted to read it because I think that is what the church of today needs to look like once again.  We have strayed from our roots…in some cases far far from our roots!!  I read with excitement and at times my head hung low as I realize how far I have strayed.  I am also reading When Heaven Invades Earth -Bill Johnson.  Talk about a double whammy!! He is so blunt and factual about who we are in Christ and what we should be doing about it!  In a nutshell our daily walk should just be another chapter added to the book of Acts!  If you have never read any of his books I would encourage you to.

Getting back to Acts.  Among many of the cool things I have found one comes to mind as I write this.  Reading the story of Stephen I saw something I’ve not really noticed before.  We all know the story- Acts 6 found the apostles being asked to busy themselves in everyday church affairs.  They knew those things would easily burdened them down and hinder them from preaching the word of God.  They said to chose 7 men well respected and full of the Spirit to do the work.  Stephen was one of those “workers” chosen.  He would do the ‘servant things’ needed to keep order in the church.  Chapter 8 says “ Stephen, a man full of God’s grace and power, PERFORMED AMAZING MIRACLES AND SIGNS among the people.”  

So you say…what does this have to do with me???  So glad you asked!  Stephen was picked to work the feeding program for the church.  He was NOT an apostle nor held the office of one.  BUT he didn’t let that stop him from performing AMAZING miracles and signs.  EVERY PERSON in the church is called to PERFORM amazing miracles and signs.  He understood his reason for existence here on earth.  He knew it was his ultimate calling.  We are NOT off the hook.  We can’t say ‘well since I am not the pastor nor a leader I am off the hook for those kinds of things’.  Sorry it’s right there in black and white and I just pointed it out to you (LOL).  Why have we strayed so far away?  Why do we walk around so powerless?  What have we become?

I talked about waking the slumbering giant -the church- in my last blog.  This blog I am talking about waking US!!  Waking us to the possibilities that are already ours to operate in.  We are given dominion over everything the day we are born.  Jesus came to make that possible.  READ about it BELIEVE it WALK in it!!  No more excuses!!

Battle Cry

We were at a ministers meeting a couple of weeks ago.  A few people wanted to have an impromptu prayer time for us.  There were 3 guys praying for Mike and I.  A wife of one of the guys came over and started to pray too.  She told us that the moment she came over she heard the loudest, fiercest battle cry come from us.  She said it was so loud and powerful that it scared her!

I have been thinking about that since she said it and have been both encouraged and convicted by it.  I am encouraged because Mike and I are both fighters of the faith.  Nothing has been able to stand in our way.  Things rise up but we fight through them.  We have blazed many new trails in our 20 years together.

I am convicted because gone are the days of believing we (all of us) can really make a change in this world.  I have been watching Mysteries at the Museums (a TV show) with the boys and I shake my head in amazement as I see how many times in history ONE person forever changed our course as a nation.  What happen to those days when ONE man believed he could make a difference?  When did we become sniveling, wimpy, whiney believers? Scared of our own shadow...afraid to ripple the water...afraid we will lose friends by standing firm to our beliefs without being a jerk about it.  We have become powerless yet we expect people to flock to our churches.  WHY?  What do we have that they need?  When was the last time we showed them God's power?  Maybe the better question would be when was the last time we ourselves experienced His power?  What has become of us?

I think one answer to that question would be we have lost our Battle Cry.  If you have the nifty app called Holy Bible You Version search battle cry.  There is verse after verse of the people of Judah raising a battle cry and God coming to their defense and crushing their enemies. 2nd Chronicles 13:15- 'and the men of Judah began to shout. At the sound of their Battle Cry, God DEFEATED Heroboam and all Israel'....There are many more verses like that!

Joel 2:1- 'Sound the alarm in Jerusalem. Raise the battle cry on my Holy mountain. Let everyone tremble in fear because the day of the Lord is upon us!'  Come on church!! RAISE THE BATTLE CRY take back what is ours.  Get off your butts, get out of your 4 walls.  Raise the battle cry because the day of our Lord is upon us!!!  When God hears our battle cry it rouses Him to battle.  If you have been covering your eyes for a while stop, LOOK around.  The church is a giant slumbering version of what God wants her to be.  Let's sound the BATTLE CRY let's wake the sleeping giant.  Let God hear our cry and come to our rescue.  God loves to be our champion.  He loves to come in and show Himself strong.

I leave you with something cool I found the other day.  I have been reading about the reign of King Hezekiah...yawn...I know I use to think the same thing but I read this fantastic historical fiction book that got me reading those parts of the Bible with a whole new outlook and understanding of that time in history.  To lay some ground work for the story Judah has just come from the reign of one of it's most evil kings Ahaz.  He placed idols in every corner of Judah and even in the temple of God.  He closed the Holy place and sold Judah to the Assyrian Empire for protection.  After he died his son Hezekiah become king.

Hezekiah wants to restore Judah to its rightful place as a nation that has Yahweh's favor.  He tears down all the idols and repairs the temple.  He wants to free Jerusalem from the Assyrians.  He encourages his people that God will fight for them.  The king of Assyria kept sending letters to Hezekiah and the letter bearers would read the letters to all the people to try to scare them. "What makes you think your God can rescue you from my power".  The Assyrian King takes pleasure in taunting the God of Hezekiah.  But the Bible says 'King Hezekiah and Amoz cried out in prayer to God in Heaven. And the Lord sent AN angel who destroyed the Assyrian army with all its commanders and officers. So the Assyrian King was forced to return home in disgrace.  And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons killed him there with a sword.'' (2 Chronicles 32)

The thing that I love so much from this passage is that the Lord only sent ONE angel to wipe out the most powerful kingdom of that time!!  The prayers of 2 men aroused God's protective side and He only had to send ONE to come to their rescue.  What could we do if we as a church would raise the battle cry to our God who, with one messenger of Heaven, can defeat an entire empire.  What would our world look like today if we understood the power we hold?   What would our government look like if we stopped thinking 'oh whatever...it is just going to happen anyways. There is nothing I can do about it'?  What would our families look like if we raised a Battle Cry over them and told Satan to get his hands off?  What would our workplace look like if we began the day with a Battle cry before stepping foot into the building?

Raise the Battle Cry! Watch your Heavenly Father come running!!

Dreams, Letters and a New Year

It has been a while since my last blog I felt it time to put 'fingers to keypad' and close out the year blog style!

We have been busy with missionary life.  Homeschool weekdays and travel weekends.  We have been everywhere from NYC to NC to VA and all over PA.  Tired...yes!! We have taken December at a little slower pace because January starts the running all over again.  Thanksgiving we were able to spent with Mike's family in NC.  Christmas will be with my family in upstate NY.  We still call Avon, NY "home".  It is nice to have a place to 'lay our heads'.  God has been so good to us.  I stand amazed everyday as He comes through in ways that only He can.

A week ago Mike and I were laying in bed exhausted.  We were chatting about how tired we are becoming.  Raising support has many highs and lows (ummm yeah no surprise there) so we had hit a low that night.  Anyways instead of allowing our thoughts to proceed into the land of negativity, I simply prayed and asked God to fill our dreams with confirmations.  We went to sleep and woke up.  I had nada...Mike had nada.  OK...gee thanks God...way to comfort your kids when they needed just a little something from you!

Mike leaves the room and Joel comes running in.  Eyes bright and shiny.  "Mom, I just had a dream...I dreamed I was in the biggest Norma's in Germany (our favorite grocery store there) looking for peas (yes, he only likes peas in Germany).  As I was waking up 'something' told me I would miss Germany when we didn't live there anymore.  Mom, it made me have a tear in my eye."

Well, son it made me have a tear in my eye too :)

Anyone that knows us knows this story is a 2-fold answer to prayer:

1.  God more then confirmed to us that He has this all under His care.  He didn't choose Mike and I for the "dream".  He chose the one who needed it even more then we did.

2.  Joel has been having the hardest time with the idea of moving to Germany.  He has been pretty vocal about it to.  He is my boy that likes to do things the same every single time (I think he's the milkman's kid ;).  I tell people it is like this *we go to the park, swing in the red swing, slide down the blue slide and then get ice cream.  Next time we go to the park we had better swing in the red swing, slide down the blue slide and get the same flavor of ice cream or to him it is not the same and he feels like he didn't 'go to the park'.*

Ever since the dream and what he heard, he hasn't said anything about not wanting to go to Germany!!!  He seems at peace about it all now.  I love how God works His way!!!

I have been contemplating many things going into the new year, as we all do, getting ready to make some new year resolutions.  I was reading an Our Daily Bread (I 'steal' them whenever a church has some sitting out.  Last months was a large print one, loved it for those early mornings when I can't see. lol).  I read one whose verse has stuck with me.

It was called 'Living Letter'.  The verse used was 2 Corinthians 3:3 "clearly you are a letter from Christ...written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God."  It got me thinking about my life.  I want to be a well written letter.  I want all that "read" me see God shining through each line of my life.

What do people 'read' when they look at your life?  Do you read as a fake, a phony, proclaiming the Christian walk with your mouth but when your life is read it is a tragedy?  Do others read you as negative, lagging in faith?  How about superficial, a politician keeping both 'sides' happy.  Work buddies love ya because to them you read similar to their lives.  Church people love ya because you turn the chapter to "churchees 101" Sunday morning.

Our lives should read Jesus everyday.  There should be a constancy to our lives.  I love to read but nothing drives me more crazy then reading a story that fluctuates and seems to go in all directions.  Almost as if written by a few different people with no consistent smoothness to it.  Will there be times in your life that the reading takes a negative turn? of course.  Will there be doubt, hurt, disbelief? of course. Will there be joy, peace, fun? of course.  Our lives are to be exciting full of adventures.  Full of real life experiences.  It is what we do with the things we are handed that should read Jesus.

My prayer for you going into the New Year is that your life reads like an incredible adventure novel. Full of strength, overcoming things that have held you back for to long.  I pray everyday as you walk through your day people read the things they need most.  That you begin to touch lives and see them transformed by God's grace shining from you.  I pray you become very aware of how YOUR LIFE STORY is being written!!

May you have a Merry Christmas and a very blessed New Year!

Why Germany?

"So why Germany?" gets asked of me from time to time and I love to mess with people and say, "well why not?"  Ok so I get a kinda confused looked from that answer like 'oh I thought you would say God is calling you or some other highly churchy answer.'

Of course first and for most God has called us beyond a shadow of a doubt to Germany!  I feel it so deep in my heart that is consumes my every thought.  We have sold everything but what we put in a 10x20 storage unit.  We left our friends, family, great neighborhood, an awesome school district and all that we know for this calling.  I would never have begun this endeavor if I wondered about the calling of God to Germany.

After my sassy answer I unload the unknown facts about the spiritual state of Germany.  Gut wrenching statics that most of us can't even comprehend.  We think of Europe as a 1st world continent and by all means it is!  They have most everything they need physically.  Jobs, homes, family life etc...But what you find when you look at the spiritual side of Europe is that it is full blown 3rd world!  They are so incredibly deprived of God.  We can't seem to understand that because our Christian roots came out of Europe.  Martin Luther and other leaders rose up from there and had a hand in shaping our spiritual beginnings as a nation.  So we are under the impression that Europe is a 'Godly nation' what do they need missionaries for??

Most people in America have 'heard' of God through one form or another.  A grandmother that prayed for them growing up, a neighbor that took them to the local VBS, or an annoying uncle that would 'preach' to the family every reunion.  Someway, somehow most Americans have been touched by 'religion'.  They are in a sense sitting around the cross.  They know but just need to make the choice to accept Christ as their savior.  For most Germans this is NOT the case.  There are not many Bible believing grandparents to pray for them, no neighbors to take them to VBS because in most cases there is not even a local church! No annoying uncle to point out their faults.  Most Germans have not even met someone that has had a real encounter with Christ.  There are less then 2% of born again Christians in Germany.  That number drops to less then 1% in Berlin.  In fact Berlin has been named the atheist capital of Europe.  Throughout Europe we are looking at 3 generations that have not heard a clear presentation of the gospel nor know anyone who is serving God to look at for an example of how to be saved.

Let's put this into prospective.  A pastor we met while there this summer has a church in a city of about 50,000.  He has been pastoring there for 15 years and has 35 members.  Did I mention he is the ONLY Evangelical church in the entire city of 50,000 and in 15 years has only 35 members and by German standards that is considered good!! "Wake Up strengthen what little remains for even what is left is almost dead" Rev 3:2

So what are we doing there?  First and for most we will be evangelizing the lost of Germany.  2nd we will train new leaders and pastors to do the work they have been called to.  3rd we will be planting churches, we have set with our partners there the goal of 200 churches in the next 8 years.  4th we will be working long side existing churches to strengthen and give them what they need to reach the lost more effectively in their area.  Pastors in Germany have been praying for God to 'remember' them and send missionaries from America to help them.  Mike and I can't wait to get back there and get busy 'doing the work of our Father'.

Now you know 'why Germany': "If we see the need and have the means but do nothing. We do not have the love of God in our hearts" 1John 3:17.  We understand that not everyone can leave a job, up-root their entire family and go to the mission field.  Not everyone is called for that kind of work.  BUT we are ALL called to do our part.  Some go, some give, some pray.  We are asking you to pray about your part in helping us reach Germany with the love of Jesus.  There are many more statics I can give if you need any more convincing.  Just ask!

Missions schools out so now what?

So a few weeks have past since we have been back in the States.  The first question I get asked is 'how does it feel to be back?' and 'did you miss everything here?'  How do I answer these?  Let's see, it feels normal to be back...I guess 3 months away doesn't allow for to many things to change!  Second question...well I missed people but I can't say I really missed life here.  I guess I have come home with a heart divided.  I love my family, friends and the things of familiarity that the States offer.  BUT I almost have to say that Germany now holds my heart.  I dreadfully miss everything about there (ok well not understanding the language sucked but other then that :)

We stepped off the plane and that was the last step we took, the rest of the time we have been running! Our first Sunday back found us sharing our hearts with a church in up-state NY.  Then we stayed in Watertown for a week, much thanks to my sister and bro-in-law for providing a great place to call home whenever we are up in the area!!  We got to go to my dad's awesome Pig Roast for Labor day.  It was nice because I got to see a lot of family and friends all at one time!

The next weekend we went to NYC for 2 services.  Friday night and a Sunday service.  Saturday we took the boys to the MET (Metropolitan Museum of Art). WOW!!! What an amazing place to see.  If ever you find yourself in NYC and want to step into another world head over to the MET.  Sunday service was so much fun.  It was a church packed full of beautiful colorful Island people.  Talk about worship they filled the place with glorious praise!  We loved every minute of it.

Our second week we stayed at my GF Teri's house in Rochester.  She was great to let a family of 4 crash her schedule. (love that girl).  Our 3rd weekend found us in PA.  We really enjoyed ourselves and were spoiled rotten.  We got taken out Saturday night to a steakhouse then Sunday after church to the best Chinese buffet I have ever had...and yes, I am quite a connoisseur of Chinese buffets!!

Returning from PA we moved more permanently with our friend Tim in Avon.  He lives alone and has a huge double wide to share with us.  We pretty much live at one end with 2 bedrooms and a full bathroom and he at the other with a master bed/bath.  In between is a large living room, dining room and kitchen/dinette area.  He is awesome and very easy to live with.  God sure knows how to take care of His own ;)

Sunday number 4 found us at our home church, Henrietta Vineyard.  We enjoyed being with our church family for the day.  They are the best!

During the week we home school the boys (ummmm yeah this topic needs a blog ALL it's own) more on that later.  We are also making TONS of calls to every person we find to call and ask if we can share our hearts with them for Germany.  We have called everyone we know and now we are making a lot of cold calls...ok...ok...I better stop saying WE because when Mike reads this he is going to say "WE" what "WE"???  Mike is making all the calls :)  During the week also finds us at lunch/coffee/dinner dates with these pastors called to try to build a relationship with them.  Please continue to pray for God's favor with all we reach out to.  We need everyone to do their part to help us get back to Germany asap!

We have reconnected with many old friends and enjoy nights out with them.  We both have a calendar going and nightly cross reference them to be sure not to double book things....ummm yeah...learned this the hard way...oops!

Life is crazy busy right now BUT I have to say (as I always feel when smack dab in the middle of God's will) I feel the MOST complete, yeah the battle rages on around us but there is such a peace that only comes by walking hand in hand with Him. (wow talk about a run-on sentence...hey don't be jealous of lucky me re-learning the English language in homeschooling...blah)

So I leave you with this;  Now glory be to God! By His mighty power at work within us, He is able to accomplish infinitely more than we would ever dare to ask or hope. Eph. 3:20 
I love this!!  He wants to accomplish INFINITELY more then we would ever dare to ask or hope and guess what??  It is not with our own power BUT His MIGHTY power at work within us!!!

A summer to remember

We are counting down to our return to the states...less then 2 weeks of school and then a few days in Dresden to unwind then we fly.  It has been an amazing summer but we are also excited to get back and get busy!!  We have to figure out living arrangements, homeschooling and raising the rest of our support...just to name a few :)  We are enjoying every last mintue with the students and just being in Germany.

This past week was the last "normal" week for us here at the school.  We finished up different discusions and had the last of our lectures.  Friday night I helped cordinate a '50/60's rock party for our chef's birthday.  It was great.  Everyone dressed up like rockers and we had a lot of fun songs from that time period to dance to like 'Rock around the clock'.  It was so much fun. (a few pictures on FB from that night)

This new week will find us in Dresden doing outreach.  The beginning of the week will be preparation for a large festival that is held there every year.  The festival runs about 4 days and we plan to be there all of them.  We will have a large tent set up and many things going on to reach out to people.  We also will be walking all around the area striking up conversations with Germans.

I can't believe time is winding down.  It has been a summer I will never forget to be sure! How blessed I feel to have spent a summer overseas with my family.  God is so gracious to us!  The places He will take You if you are just willing to say 'yes Lord, here am I send me'!

I use to dream of hopping on an airplane and going somewhere/anywhere growing up.  I would look at planes flying by and tell myself 'someday I am going to be on those ALL the time'.  Little did I know that those dreams would become a reality as I stepped into ministry work.  The first trip I took was in 8th grade to Mexico.  I would not fly again till after marriage.  Then short-term missions work became the norm for us for about 5 years.  Kids happened and small missions trips state-side would have to do.

Last summer found me taking the longest trip by plane so far.  It was my first time to fly to Europe.   I was so excited I can't begin to explain to you the emotions involved as I climbed the plane stairs knowing that the longing as a little girl was going to be fulfilled!  So you can only imagine the pure joy I experienced when we again boarded the plane this summer.  Not only did I have my family with me but we were spending the entire summer doing what we love most.  I know this is just the beginning of a life time of travel and I can't wait to see where the journey takes us!

So many new doors have opened to us this summer.  We have been reaching out to many different pastors and leaders all around Germany and Europe.  I love how God gets you into the position He needs you to be in so He can bring the connections into your life.  We have seen this happen time and time again in our lives.  We knew that we were to be here in Germany before we came so it has been exciting to see all the different doors opening up to us.

We have such a longing to get back here as soon as we can and begin the work that has been birthed in our hearts.  We ask that you help us anyway possible.  Please know that no gift is to small.  We need everyone doing their part, together we can reach this lost and dying generations with the love of Jesus.