Category Archives: Love your Neighbor

Tall buildings great opporturnity

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This message was inspired from our time in Korea!! Enjoy!!

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We hope you had a wonderful week!! Ours was great. Wehad a lot of things going on. Jen was part of a women encouragement book club with women from the neighborhood and had a wonderful time with it. Its so wonderful being able to encourage each other. Jen did Art again at the boys and girls club and its amazing to see how much joy it brings to the children. Oh and then we also got invited to a yearly fundraiser for the local boys and girls club and had a wonderful time there as well. What a busy but good week! Its so wonderful how God makes you able to shine his love in so many different places and in everyday life! I believe that is a real key for us as Christians to show his love in every part of our life.

Have a wonderful week and remember to love the people right next to you tall or small building!

God bless you

Markus and Jen

Trust is the foundation

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The first blog of 2019 is about a really important topic that can help us to change our relationships and communities. Be blessed.

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First of all if you didn’t read the last Blog we want to wish you a blessed and happy new year! We had a wonderful few days with family in Pennsylvania and got back on New years eve to San Francisco to a lot of firework. When we got back we had a few days with friends. Sadly at the end of the week both of us got sick with a cold. pray with us for quick recovery! But we are excited for this new year and all the awesome things God has planned for it. Our prayer for this year is, that more people in our neighborhood and your neighborhood experience His love through you and us and fall in love with Him. Lets love on our neighbors extra in the year 2019!!

Have a blessed week!!

God bless you

Markus and Jen

Seek peace and pursue it

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… seek peace and pursue it. Psalm 34.14

What a perfect verse was chosen in the German church as the verse for the year 2019. Seeking peace and also pursuing it is so focused on an action of each one of us. A little while ago we heard a speaker share about how he seeks peace between Israeli and Palestinians and how much breakthrough he has seen over the years. But it took an action on his side to bring people together and to keep pursuing peace between them. He didn’t start through politics or a big media engagement, no he just brought youth from both sides together to meet and start understanding each other. Did it bring total peace for everyone yet? No but the people he brought together understand each other now and are connected through a friendship and started to reconcile.

So it always takes an action from us. We can’t wait for politicians or leaders to make the first step. We have to start doing it. We are the ones who can bring reconciliation through the love of Jesus, not just once but on a regular basis. We can change our neighborhoods by seeking peace but then also pursuing it. I think sometimes we approach a situation and want to bring peace between 2 people, but then it doesn’t happen and then we give up. But we need to keep pursuing it. The speaker I mentioned earlier is working on it for many many years sometimes with little results. But he keeps pursuing it.

Lets print out this verse and put it somewhere where we see it first thing in the morning and then at the end of the day so we are reminded about it. And then let us let 2019 be a year were we carry actively and consistent reconciliation and peace into our neighborhoods, homes and work places. Have a blessed new year!!!

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2018 was a year with many ups and downs for us and many others. It was a year, were we saw God move in so many areas in our lives as well as ministry. Thank you God for 2018 and that we could partner with you. Take some time to reflect on your 2018 and ask God to show you how He was with you in all of it. It is such a great way to start a new year. With that we wish you a blessed new year 2019. May you have a wonderful start and may it get even better as it goes forward. Remember that you are amazing and loved!!

Also don’t forget to seek peace and pursue it.

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.

Hey our friend

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