Monthly Archives: November 2014

Thanks-Giving

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2013-11-28 10.27.42We are getting ready for a wonderful 2013-11-28 15.36.11Thanksgiving meal this week at our house. It will be a wonderful time. We probably have to get an extra table to fit everyone.

Our last week was great as well. We were able to honor our students that helped us this fall in North beach by cooking a lunch for them. It was a wonderful time. Please keep them in your Prayers since they have only 2more weeks left till they leave for Outreach.

We have almost 6 weeks left to reach our goal to be fully funded by January. Please consider partnering with us through becoming a monthly financial supporter. You can do that with $25, $50, $100 or any other amount you would like. Click on this link then choose under monthly giving the amount, under ministry Staff support and write under comments Markus and Jen. Thank you for partnering with us in Engaging a city with a loving God.

 Thanks-Giving

The week of amazing food and fellowship is back, its thanksgiving again. When you look at the word thanksgiving you see actually 2 words. Thanks and Giving.

When we look back at how thanksgiving started we see something interesting it was always about giving. When the first pilgrims came the Native Americans gave them and taught them skills on how to fish and grow corn. Out of that the Pilgrims had a great harvest and were able to survive. Out of thankfulness they invited the Native American tribe to celebrate with them the harvest they had that year. So it created this cycle of thankfulness out of giving.

But it is important to remember that the giving always came out of gratefulness. So now let’s see how that translates into our relationship with God. God has freely given everything for us and hopefully we are thankful for it. So if we give back to him in any measure (work, money etc.) we should always do it out of that thankful heart. We should never do it out of obligation or a rule since that would defeat the purpose of thankfulness. So when you give your 10th it should actually reflect your thankfulness to the father and not out of the fact of performing for his love. My friend Claude said this:

Don’t do things for love, but do them out of love.

And if you think about that is true for giving as well. Don’t give because you have to, but give because you want to and give out of a thankful heart.

Have a blessed Thanksgiving week.

Markus and Jen

Seek his face to grow in faith!

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jen markusWe hope you had a wonderful week. I (Markus) was in Redding last week learning more on how to teach on the father heart of God. This is such an important topic for each one since we live in a world full of orphans. It is not just important to teach but also to live. Let us show God’s father heart to others through the way we love and care for them. While I was in Redding Jen kept up all the local work. We are such a great team and she is just a gem! I just have to say I really love my wife. I could have not married anyone better!

Thank you for praying with us. Please pray for more open doors to share the good news with people.

We have almost 6 weeks left to reach our goal to be fully funded by January. Please consider partnering with us through becoming a monthly financial supporter. You can do that with $25, $50, $100 or any other amount you would like. Click on this link then choose under monthly giving the amount, under ministry Staff support and write under comments Markus and Jen. Thank you for partnering with us in Engaging a city with a loving God

Seek his face to grow in faith!

My heart says of you, “Seek his face!” Your face, Lord , I will seek. PSA 27:8 NIV

Last week we talked about faith and unbelief and what choice we make. This week I want to talk about how to get more faith. Faith actually grows by the way we know God and by deeper relationship with Him. David gives us a great example on how to grow closer to the father, it is by seeking his face. As more we seek God’s presence as more we get transformed. As more hope will come into our life and as more our faith will grow. As more we seek Him as more we know Him. As more we know Him as more we know His character and as more we know that He is good. So if He calls us to do something and step out in faith, we know that He will be right with us. We know that He is greater then anything that can stand against us. But then there is a second step. We actually need to step out in faith. Elija would have not seen fire coming from heaven and burning his sacrifice including all the stones of the altar and all the water he poured over it (1.King 18) if he would have not stepped out in faith. The lame man would still be lame if Peter would have not stepped out in faith and prayed for him (Acts 3). These are just 2 examples out of many, but both of them had 2 things in common they knew God, trusted Him and took action.

So faith needs relationship with the father but it also needs action. Which of those do you have to grow in? Pray and ask God to show you and then start investing in that area!

Have a blessed week

Markus and Jen

Faith or unbelief, what is your choice?

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20141104_131144We hope you had a wonderful week. We had a more office focused week which is sometimes important too, but not necessarily our favorite. During this coming week I (Markus) will be in Redding learning more from my friend, a YWAM Teacher, on how to teach on the father heart of God. Jen came up with me for the weekend and we went to many church services.

20141108_144119_Richtone(HDR)Please keep praying along with us while things are moving forward and we see God move in many areas of the work. Pray especially for our students since they start leading Prayer walks which they created. Pray that God will guide them in there walks.

During the last week God brought in 1 new supporter and a couple who will pray about supporting us. Thank you God! Please pray about if God wants you to be a part of this work through monthly financial support. Our goal is to be fully funded by January first so that we don’t have to focus on fundraising in this new year and can just use all that time for ministry. You can support us with $25, $50, $100 or any other amount you would like. Click on this link then choose under monthly giving the amount, under ministry Staff support and write under comments Markus and Jen. Thank you for partnering with us in bringing hope to North beach San Francisco!

Faith or unbelief, what is your choice?

…everything that does not come from faith is sin.  Romans 14.23

One morning during our quiet time we read in the book of Romans chapter 14. One thing that stuck out to me was the verse above. Paul is saying here that everything we do without faith is sin. Why is that? Let me look at another story with you before answering that question. When David was King over Israel he started to count his troops. In a human logical sense there is no issue with that, but in a Godly sense there is. David assessed what he had so he could figure out how to fight the enemy and especially how big the enemy could be he wanted to fight. When David did that he started to keep God out of the picture. Instead of trusting God fully he started to trust in manpower. When he fought Goliath he attacked him with faith and even said you come with weapons but I come with the living God. The situation looked impossible, but he won, because his faith was in God. When he counted the troops his head faith might still be in God but in reality he had unbelief. And unbelief is not compatible with faith meaning it brings you to a place of worry and self-sufficiency. When we put all our trust and faith in God we are not depending on our strength but His. So however the end result will be the Glory will always go to Him since we did it through Him. If we don’t do that it is really easy to fall into pride which is sin and holds us away from our loving father. Lets asses our lives and see where we made decisions based on faith and where not. After we did that lets change things to move more and more into a lifestyle of faith.

Have a blessed week.

Markus and Jen

Let’s go fly a kite

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german flagWe hope you had a wonderful week. After a super busy week we had a bit of a slower week which felt really good. We had wonderful opportunities to bring hope to leaders in the community. We also hosted our first german night at our house. It’s a way to connect with other german speakers in the city as well as a way for Jen to learn more of the language. It was a great time!! We also had Jen’s Mom here for a visit which was amazing as well.

Please also keep standing with us in Prayer in this season for all parts of the ministry. We want to see more and more breakthroughs in the lives of the different people. Pray for an increase of hope for people and also open hearts for Jesus.

We set a goal to be fully funded by January 1st. This is the reason why we did it: Every year a junk of time has to be used to fundraise to be able to keep doing what we are doing. That time we can’t use to do the ministry here in the city. So our goal is to be fully funded for all of our monthly expenses through monthly support. At this point we are in need of $2802 more on a monthly base. Consider joining our monthly support team. Its really easy to do so. Just click on this link, choose the amount, as a ministry choose staff support and under comments put Markus and Jen. If you would like to support us by check make the checks out to YWAM with a note in Memo MJH. Send them to YWAM San Francisco, 357 Ellis Street, San Francisco CA 94102. If you cant support us personally help us by sharing with others who might be interested in supporting us. Thank you for all your support. You are such a blessing to us.

Lets go fly a kite

This week we will have a video blog which I recorded a few weeks ago. Enjoy!!

Have a blessed week

Markus and Jen