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Les Miserables or second chances

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This blog is about the story of Les Miserables and Second Chances. Be encouraged!

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We hope your week was great! In a few days we are leaving for Germany and we are excited to see family and friends over there!! But we also had a great week here in San Francisco. Jen had her book club and she encourages and feels encouraged by the women there. We also had our North Beach Christians small group, a place to inspire and be inspired by others to love our neighbor and neighborhood more. We meet once a month but each time we are encouraged. Do the same in your neighborhood. Exchange ideas with other Christians and encourage each other in loving your neighbor!

Have a blessed week and don’t forget to give someone a second chance!!

God bless you

Markus and Jen

You don’t need everyone to love you just…

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Find out what this blog is about by watching the video. We hope it inspires you!

https://youtu.be/jr9QtXwC9vc

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We hope your week was great. If I would need to title our last week it would be the week of Goodbyes and on the other hand celebration. We had a memorial service for a friend from the neighborhood who we knew for a long time. IItwas good to remember him with all his friends. And then we also said a Goodbye to Bethany on her way to Italy. Pray for her while she is starting with YWAM there for 1 year. But then we also had happy moments with a birthday party of our neighbor friends and we got to see the San Francisco Symphony. Of course, we also had all the usual things going on which was awesome too!!

With that looking back the last week was a great example for life, happiness and sadness so close together. But both together make out life and everything in between. So if you are in a sad time right now just know it will pass.

God bless you

Markus and Jen

Ready for an Adventure?

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Right in front of me on top of my desk is a wedding invitation for my brother and his future wife with the words “Our Adventure begins”. I love that way of looking at life. When we think of Adventure we think of new experiences, exploring something, but also taking risks. With a great adventure, you never know what comes next. But most of the time we would have some kind of guide who can lead us on this adventure. As an example, if you go White River rafting you probably will go with someone who is experienced and not just by yourself in your own little rubber boat.

Life as a follower of Jesus is an Adventure, but the great thing about that is that we also have a guide with us. God leads us along the way and is always with us. He knows totally what’s best for us along the way of that adventure. I was recently reading through the books of 1. Kings and you can see different outcomes when the kings went on their Adventure with God or without him. When they went with him He was guiding them along the way, gave them the right perspective and also the courage to do the right thing. If they walked by themselves, usually things didn’t work out well for them.

So going on an adventure always requires a good guide and God wants to be that guide for each one of us. Yes, Adventures can be challenging and sometimes scary, but with the right guide at your side things will work out better. Because you know He’s got things! Going down that White River and seeing the waves left and right can really bring fear, but with the guide in the front of the boat giving instructions and leading, it can be a lot of fun.

We want to encourage you to let God guide you in your Adventure. You will have an exciting journey ahead, but also someone who is with you when things don’t look as good.

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Labor Day is here and also the time of our last big barbecue for this year. Its sad that it is the last one for this season, but in the same way we are really excited to spend time with our neighbor friends. Make sure to invite some new people to your barbecue it is always exciting!!

But sadly life can’t be just barbecues; sometimes we also have to do office work. But we got a lot of stuff done this week. And it feels good too when you can see immediate results.

We hope you had a good week too and want to wish you an amazing one for this coming one! Let God guide you into your own Adventure with Him!!

God bless you

Markus and Jen

Neighborhood Foundations

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Recently a friend from Germany came to visit us in San Francisco. While giving him a tour todays blog about neighborhood foundations came into existence. Enjoy!!

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We hope you are doing great!!! Last week 2 of our old friends who used to work at the ywam Base in San Francisco came to visit and we got to have dinner together. It was so wonderful!! There is just something really special when you see old friends again and it feels like time stood still. Outside of that jen had a book club meeting which over the years gave her wonderful friendships to older ladies in the neighborhood. During her book club meeting I was mentoring a young man who became a really good friend or more like a son to me. He has such a heart for God and for his community. We need more people like him in this world!! Jen and I were also able to go on a double date together with jesse and cassia to watch a baseball game which was really fun.

So now have a wonderful week and make sure to find some neighborhood foundations of your area!!

God bless you

Markus and Jen

Ruth or putting your full trust in him

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Recently I was reading the book of Ruth. Ruth is an interesting book that teaches us a lot about family and about trust. Enjoy the video blog about it!

Hey our friend

We had a wonderful week here in San Francisco. We had an old friend from Germany come out for a visit which was awesome. We also had our normal things going on which were really fun. On Saturday our friend could experience one of our neighbor brunches which was awesome. It so easy to do, but so much fun to connect with neighbor friends through it. Jen and I had also some really fun dates in this last month. A friend of ours lend us there car and we were able to visit a water park which was awesome. And with that we were able to experience a real summer. We hope you enjoy yours too!

Now have a wonderful week and don’t forget to address the areas in your life where you still have to put your trust in Him!

God bless you

Markus and Jen