Jesus does full restorations

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Jesus doesn’t just want to partially restore us, no he wants to do it in every way. Be encouraged through this weeks video blog!

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We hope you had a wonderful week!! Last week we had our bay area meeting with all the leaders of the different ywam works in this area. It was encouraging and refreshing.  Jen also was a part of 2 book clubs this week of which the members became true friends over the years. Its amazing how many friendships can happen if you connect with the things that are happening in your community. And the great thing is we can all do it!

Remember this week that Jesus doesn’t do halfway things he wants to fully restore!

God bless you

Markus and Jen

Facing hard circumstances

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This week we have another video blog on how to face hard circumstances. I hope it encourages you!

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What’s new in your life? Are you enjoying your summer? Update us!!

Our week was filled with a barbecue for the 4th of July which was amazing!! Many neighbors and people from our community came together in our little apartment and connected. It was a great time for great conversations and eating together. We always look forward to the barbecues. The rest of the week was great too with many wonderful times with neighbor friends.

If you face hard things in your life make sure to walk through it with god and his hand and feet on this earth!

God bless you

Markus and Jen

Loving your Neighbor 2018

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This week we have a video blog from the countryside in PA about our favorite Topic loving your neighbor. Enjoy!!

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We hope you had a wonderful week!! We were in Pennsylvania last week to see family and to attend the wedding of our wonderful cousin Katie and her wondeful husband stephen. We had a great time. Before we left we had a neighborhood event which was encouraging. This week we will have a wonderful 4th of July Barbecue with neighbors. Deepen your friendships this summer with your neighbors by inviting them over for a barbecue. It’s a great way to connect and get to know each other more!

Don’t forget this week to love your neighbor!!

God bless you

Markus and Jen

Mister Rogers Neighborhood

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“Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.” Mr Rogers

Recently we saw a movie called “Won’t you be my neighbor”. It is about the life of Mister Steve Rogers and about his children show that played from 1968 till 2001 called Mister Rogers Neighborhood. It was a simple show that helped children to grow up with the knowledge that they are special and loved and also to encourage them to love others. But not just the children, cast members heard from Mister Rogers, some for the first time in their lives, that they are loved. Mister Rogers studied to become a minister but then felt called to the TV world. He felt that he could use that medium to really speak into the lives of the children that watch it on how unique and special they are made by father God. During his life he helped many through his true love, through hard times and tragedies. He didn’t just talk about easy topics; no he talked about everything kids could experience. But he talked about it in a way that they could go through it hopeful. His show was very simple, but he didn’t need much since he showed people how loved they are. He was a very special and unique person. He used his gifting to live the gospel and make the words love your neighbor real. Many lives are changed because of him following his calling.

Mr Rogers was not in a traditional setting what we think of when we think of ministry, but instead he used the gifting God gave him in a unique and new way and ministered through that to many. The quote at the beginning of the blog shows really well what happens when we love people well. That is true for each one of us. Each one of us can be a light in there environment like Mr Rogers was in his. Each one of us can love the people well that we are connected to. I believe that if we live our lives that way, the words from Jesus to love our neighbor become reality and it starts to change all the places we get in touch with. So lets start today lets tell someone that they are loved.

Make sure to watch the movie while its still in theaters! I promise you will leave inspired!! Here is a link to it and I also attached the trailer.

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We hope that you are doing really well and enjoy the summer. Our DTS Students graduated last week. It’s always sad to see them go, but then, in the same way, it’s exciting to see where God is leading them. Please pray for them in this transition season from DTS to whatever is next. We also had our encouragement group and a few other things going on which was a blessing. We both just love that God created such a wonderful community in our area through loving our neighbors. Its wonderful!

Remember this week through Mister Rogers that God can use your giftings in a new and unconventional way!

God bless you

Markus and Jen

 

 

Always there

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When I was young I stayed a lot at my grandparents’ house. One of the things I noticed that both of them really had a big heart for people and they both were always there for people when they needed help. Many people came to the house but they always had an open door. One thing I also noticed as a young child was that every night before bedtime my grandpa would read a Psalm and then when he would wake up in the morning he would read another one. It changed his focus towards God.

Now 30 years later I am doing the same thing. Our house is always open to whoever and I am also reading the Psalms the same way he did and it brings my focus to God. Why? Because it’s such an encouraging book that gives the right focus in a poetic way. The writers wrote in a real way how they felt. Shortcomings of people, as well as triumphs and everything in between, are part of the Psalms. Nothing is left out and it always points towards god as the ultimate solution! And then people in those days started singing that truth and it started to sink in. Now thousands of years later we read through them and they are as relevant today as they were in that time. I looked at that recently in a blog about the good Shepard. It is still true that God is there and it is still true that we can be there for others.

So you might wonder why I write that. I write that because it changed me. It changed the outlook on my day and ended my day with a different outlook towards God. It changed my outlook on people and the heart I have for them since I get reminded how God is always there for me. It reminds me that no matter what I am going through, there is a God greater then all circumstances. He is as real to me today then he was thousands of years ago to David and all the other writers. Waking up with the knowledge that that loving God is always there and then falling asleep with that same knowledge is just amazing.

Reading the Psalms every day and remembering that God is always with us changed my grandpa and opened his heart towards others and it did the same to me. I want to encourage you to let it to do the same to you. Let the Psalms remind you that God is with you no matter what and then be there for others in your life! Because he truly is there, you and I truly can be there too!

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Remember today that you are amazing and loved because that is the truth!!

Our week was filled with a book club meeting for Jen, me mentoring a young man who became like a son, a small group at our house and then just the normal weekly stuff. So, all in all, it was a week of many people. We love it.

We want to encourage you to be inspired by the psalms and let God speak to you through them.

God bless you

Markus and Jen