Author Archives: Markus

Fill the table

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This week it’s about a table that needs to be filled. Be challenged! P.S. the Psalm passage I was referring to is Psalm 68.6 or 7 (depending on the translation)

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We hope you had a wonderful week!!

Every week I am part of a prayer meeting where we come together on zoom to pray. We pray for different needs of people like health, things related to church, for our city and the leaders and worldwide things going on. It is so important for believers to come together and pray together for things going on local as well as other places. We want to encourage you to join a local prayer meeting and pray together with fellow believers in your area!

And don’t forget to think and pray this week about who is lonely in your circle and who you can invite for the Christmas season! Make a list and then invite!!

Markus, Jen and Caleb

Gospel Carriers: Johannes Gutenberg

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This weeks Gospel Carrier is a bit different then the ones we talked about before, he was a business man. Be inspired by his life.

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We hope you had a wonderful week!!

Last weekend we did the 2nd part of the love your neighbor workshop with a church in the city. It was so encouraging to hear how God gave them a different perspective as well as a greater impact with the people around them since the first time we met. This is our heart to train and inspire people to love their neighbors in their neighborhood, bring hope and build genuine relationships. It also helps to bring people out of isolation that are trapped in it. If you are interested in joining one of the workshops we do either in person or over zoom, just send us an email and we will let you know when we host the next one!!

We hope you got inspired by the video. Lets ask yourself the question: How does God want to use your talents to build the kingdom?

God bless you

Markus, Jen and Caleb

I trust in You

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This week is about fear and trust. Be encouraged.

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We hope you had a wonderful week!!

One late afternoon I decided to go for a quick walk around the block to just get a few steps in. Just by doing that I ran into multiple neighbor friends and some strangers. I got into good conversations with all of them and I don’t even know how an hour went by and I just walked one lap. Its amazing how easily to get into conversation and connect with people. The blue angles doing their airshow over the city was a great conversation starter. We want to encourage you to also walk around your area and connect with the people there. Start a conversation with a simple topic that is relevant right now (besides politics since that can be very divisive). Watch how your connections and relationships in the neighborhood grow just by doing something simple like this.

And 2 more things at the end about the video: 1. Pray and ask yourself where you have subconsciously allowed fear into your life and made decisions out of fear. 2. Give this fear to God and express your trust in Him in a completely new way no matter what circumstance!

Markus, Jen and Caleb

Gospel Carriers: Wycliffe, Luther and Tyndale

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This week we are looking a 3 Gospel Carriers who had a huge influence on how you read the bible today. Be encouraged!

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How was your week?

This week San Francisco got hit with a heat wave for our San Francisco summer (our summer is September October). According to Alexa we got one day temperatures up to 98 degrees. But that didn’t stop us from having our small group, a dinner with neighbors and to have our neighbor brunch. No matter if its hot or cold we are all in need of community in every season.  We want to encourage you to keep building community in the neighborhood you live in!!

We hope you were inspired by the video! Don’t forget to ask yourself the following questions: Do you have talents in translating languages ​​and does God want to use you to translate the Bible into languages ​​that it doesn’t yet exist in? Who can you encourage who you know and who is good with languages ​​to help translate the Bible? Who can you support who translates the Bible, financially or in other ways? Pray about it!!

God bless you

Markus, Jen and Caleb

 

Righteousness

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This weeks video blog is about righteousness. Be inspired and encouraged!

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We hope you had a wonderful week!!

We love our church in San Francisco and have been part of it for 16 years. Last Sunday our church celebrated the 40th anniversary. Its amazing to see how God used it to empower, encourage and build up people for a long time. Even with many moves, challenging times, pastor changes and other circumstances the church kept going. I want to encourage you with that to be perseverant. Keep going in the things God called you to do and don’t give up in times of challenge.

And 2 more things at the end about the video: 1. Read Romans 4 and 5 and let God encourage you through them. 2. Let us ask God to show us where we still try to prove ourselves instead of leaning into his grace!

God bless you

Markus, Jen and Caleb