Hey our friend

We hope you had a wonderful week. We got back to San Francisco last week. We had an amazing time in Pennsylvania and felt blessed with meeting many and get the opportunity to share with 3 churches. Last Sunday we shared with a church that supported us for years and after we shared for about 10 mins we had another worship time during which the Pastor asked us if we could have a question answer and also sharing time. We did and people in the church as well as the 2 of us got really encouraged by the way God showed up.

After we got back we both got sick which was a real bummer. Please keep our health in your prayers since it seems to be the area were we get mostly attacked in. Thank you for partnering with us in Prayer and financially in this ministry. You are a true blessing!

Each one is needed!

When we look at the world today we see many people that don’t know Jesus. But we also see many people that became Christians but have no one who disciples them and who they can learn from and then fall away from God. Many times we just put that role onto the Pastor of the church, but the truth is it can’t be the job of only the pastor to disciple people.

Jesus discipled his disciples and then send them to disciple others. And all of them went for it. They did it by preaching the gospel and helping people in whichever way they needed help (Mark 16.20).

It is important for each one of us to live our faith on a daily base and help others to grow in it too. That looks different for each one of us since each of us is gifted in a different way, but it all comes down to that people need to see Jesus in each one of us.

If we want to see this world reached for Jesus and we want to see change we have to all do it. Each of us has to do their part.

We can’t just consume church; we have to be the church.

We were never meant to just go to church Sunday after Sunday and then do our own thing for the rest of the week. Church is the place to be filled, but then that filling has to be given away during the week. I promise you that when you start doing that, you will grow in your faith and your relationship with God, and you will also see others around you grow.

Look at your life this week and think about people that are around you that you can disciple. It might be the alpha graduate that just became a Christian and has many questions or it might be the man who has been a Christian all his life but is stuck. Start making a difference.

Have a blessed week

Markus and Jen

Hey our friend

We hope your first weeks in this new year were wonderful. Join us this year in Prayer for Gods work in this world, like San Francisco or your town. You can bring change through praying!!

What wastes your time?

I heard it many times from different people that they don’t have time for God. But I believe that there is a solution to that. I think all of us experienced at one point or another how we come out of a moment realizing that we just spend hours on something we only wanted to spend minutes on. It is frustrating when that happens, since we add extra stress to all of our other projects which really needed that time. I think in today’s society it is very easy to waste time, like spending a while on the internet, watching TV, Facebook etc. And it is ok to do those things from time to time or for a purpose, but it is not Ok to do them always as time filler. As an example it’s ok to check Facebook email and the news, but you don’t have to do it 10 times a day.

Let’s assume you waste 1 hour per day for the rest of your life and you live to be 80 you wasted 5 years of your life.

Do you see how much time that opens up for you? Now imagine you use those five years to make a difference in this world and go into fulltime ministry. Or you can use half of that time to spend extra time with God and the other half to bring Jesus to the people around you. I promise, you will see a huge difference in your community as well as your own relationship with God.

I want to challenge you with this to think about the things that waste your time. Then come up with an action plan on how to eliminate them. Have someone in your life that asks the right questions, or do it with someone together so both fight their way through. Also set up dedicated times where you will use the certain things. Don’t just use them at random times. But the most important thing your mindset has to change. As an example don’t even think about to go on your choice of time waste by saying I will only go there for 5 minutes, because you know it won’t happen. So instead of going to the time waste, spend time in prayer to pray for neighbors or people around you.

I know this is a challenge, but it is possible and it can change. Just go for the change.

Have a blessed week

Markus and Jen

Hey our friend

We hope you had a wonderful start into the new year. We are still in Pennsylvania sharing with friends, churches, family about what God is doing in San Francisco. Pray for our time that God really encourages and challenges people through our sharing.

We also launched our new website oficially on January 1st., which you are on right now. Many thanks to our friend Shane Fryer for making this possible. You are the best!!

A small act of Kindness can bring hope and joy

A little while ago I was on my way to a meeting. While walking there I saw a older man who was carrying 2 heavy boxes. I asked him if I can help him with carrying one of them. He couldn’t believe that I would help him. He needed to go anyway to a place that was along my way to the meeting and some extra arm exercise doesn’t hurt anyone. The joy on his face was amazing. His face literally changed from looking sad to total joyIt is so interesting how a moment of caring can change the outlook of someones day. The great thing about this is that all of us can do it. We don’t have to start a huge ministry or speak at a church to bring the love of God to people. We can do little things for people when they don’t expect it. Mother Teresa said this:

“Not all of us can do great things. But all of us can do small things with love. “

I would say that little things done with love are by far greater then great things done without love. Lets bless people around us and show them who our King is!!

Have a blessed week

Markus and Jen

Hey our friend

We hope you had a wonderful Christmas week. We had a very international Christmas celebration at our house with people from the neighborhood. We had 2 Greek friends, 1 Iranian friend, one Chinese friend, 1 Italian friend, 1 German and 1 American. It is awesome to see how God brought the nations to us in a small neighborhood of 20.000 people. But by now we are in Pennsylvania spending some time with family and share with different  churches and friends about the work God is doing in San Francisco. Its an exciting season. Please keep us in your prayers that God gives us the right words to share and encourages and challenges people through it.

Thanks to our wonderful North Beach Staff Shane who helps us from Florida with all our webdesign we are officially launching this new and redesigned website. We believe it came out really beautiful. This new site is also mobile friendly so from now on you can read the blog a lot easier on your mobile device.

Also if you are looking for an end of the year tax write off or would like to support what God is doing in San Francisco, think about supporting us in our work here in San Francisco! You can find more info on how under this link. Thank you for all your support and for considering us.

A New Year resolution that will change your life forever

But for me it is good to be near God;… Psalm 73.28

Like every week I prayed what this weeks blog should be about and I felt God put this topic on my heart. I just finished filming this message and just uploaded it, when I realized that it actually goes exactly along with the verse that stands for the year 2014 (I don’t know if it is a common thing here in the US but in Germany they pick a verse for the year which kind of stands over the whole year).

I believe this message is significant for each one of us. Be challenged and encouraged with this Video Blog.

God bless you

Your Missionary friends

Markus and Jen

Hey our friend

We hope you have a wonderful week while getting ready for Christmas. We will have a Christmas celebration at our house on the 25^th with friends from the neighborhood. It will be awesome!! And Thursday we will got to Pennsylvania to spend time with family there and also share with churches and friends about the work here in San Francisco. We want to wish you a blessed Christmas and hope our Christmas message video makes you think and challenges you.

Also if you are looking for an end of the year tax write off or would like to support what God is doing in San Francisco, think about supporting us in our work here in San Francisco! You can find more info on how under this link. Thank you for all your support and for considering us.

What is Christmas really about?

Enjoy the video.

God bless you

your friends

Markus and Jen