Hey our friend

We hope you had a wonderful week. Every day God gives us something to be thankful for, and that is where we need to put our focus on. Last week we were able to connect with some new people in the community through a neighborhood meeting. God keeps opening up new ways into the lives of people. Our normal weekly meetings went really well too and we were able to spread more hope in that community. Pray that God shows us more and more ways on how to move forward with the ministry as well as providing more fulltime staff.

Be always ready

Last Saturday Jen and I went on a date to Walnut Creek. We planned to spend some time in that beautiful town. On the way there a lady on the train started talking to us about her life and started sharing about how she got clean and how she slowly started connecting with a church. During the ride we were able to speak hope into her life and at the end of the ride I was able to pray for her. It seemed that during her whole life she had only bad experiences with man and when I prayed for her she was really touched by a man not using her but really caringly praying for her. When I finished praying another couple that sat across said that they totally want to agree with the prayers. We found out later that they just came back from a mission trip in Thailand and seeing us ministering to the lady really helped them to transition back in after being in a mainly Buddhist country. After that conversation we met another guy and offered him to pray for him, which he declined with saying I’m not religious. But we were able to encourage him to learn more about Jesus. That all happened in about 40 min and none of it was planned, all we did was being available to what God wanted to do. If you look at the ministry Jesus did, you will notice that he had many unplanned ministry opportunities like the lady at the well, the blind man etc. All he did was being available to be used by His father to do a miracle.

Now we need to ask ourselves the question. Are we available when God opens up an opportunity? What holds us back not to step into that opportunity? Ponder a bit on those questions and then go for the opportunities God gives you.

Have a blessed week

Markus and Jen