Hey our friend

We hope you had a wonderful Christmas week. We had a very international Christmas celebration at our house with people from the neighborhood. We had 2 Greek friends, 1 Iranian friend, one Chinese friend, 1 Italian friend, 1 German and 1 American. It is awesome to see how God brought the nations to us in a small neighborhood of 20.000 people. But by now we are in Pennsylvania spending some time with family and share with different  churches and friends about the work God is doing in San Francisco. Its an exciting season. Please keep us in your prayers that God gives us the right words to share and encourages and challenges people through it.

Thanks to our wonderful North Beach Staff Shane who helps us from Florida with all our webdesign we are officially launching this new and redesigned website. We believe it came out really beautiful. This new site is also mobile friendly so from now on you can read the blog a lot easier on your mobile device.

Also if you are looking for an end of the year tax write off or would like to support what God is doing in San Francisco, think about supporting us in our work here in San Francisco! You can find more info on how under this link. Thank you for all your support and for considering us.

A New Year resolution that will change your life forever

But for me it is good to be near God;… Psalm 73.28

Like every week I prayed what this weeks blog should be about and I felt God put this topic on my heart. I just finished filming this message and just uploaded it, when I realized that it actually goes exactly along with the verse that stands for the year 2014 (I don’t know if it is a common thing here in the US but in Germany they pick a verse for the year which kind of stands over the whole year).

I believe this message is significant for each one of us. Be challenged and encouraged with this Video Blog.

God bless you

Your Missionary friends

Markus and Jen

Hey our friend

We hope you have a wonderful week while getting ready for Christmas. We will have a Christmas celebration at our house on the 25^th with friends from the neighborhood. It will be awesome!! And Thursday we will got to Pennsylvania to spend time with family there and also share with churches and friends about the work here in San Francisco. We want to wish you a blessed Christmas and hope our Christmas message video makes you think and challenges you.

Also if you are looking for an end of the year tax write off or would like to support what God is doing in San Francisco, think about supporting us in our work here in San Francisco! You can find more info on how under this link. Thank you for all your support and for considering us.

What is Christmas really about?

Enjoy the video.

God bless you

your friends

Markus and Jen

Hey our friend

We hope you are doing well. Last week we celebrated our annual YWAM Christmas party which was amazing. We had lots of fun. It is crazy to think about the fact that Christmas is almost here. Remember to spend some time thinking about the one who is the reason for the season. Also today our DTS is leaving for there Outreach to Thailand. Please keep them in your prayers. This is a picture of our North Beach students.

We also want to ask you to pray about to join our monthly or one time gift support team. Pray about it. You can click on this link for more info on how to support us. Thank you for considering us. It means a lot to us. May God bless you richly.

What are we running after (or the organ part 2)

Last week I wrote about an organ that I saw in a very old church. In that church I noticed something else, a second organ. It actually looked identical to the first one. But when you looked closer you saw that it was just a copy of the other one and that it was not functioning. I think that is another great picture of how important it is to be connected to God. There are many things in this world that promise you a lot. On paper many of them look great, but as more you look into it, as more you see, how they are not that great. Money, power or fame are some of them, but when you talk to people that succeeded in them without Jesus you see that it didn’t fulfill them. You see how it was just a cheap imitation of what God actually intended for them to have. I’m not trying to say that God doesn’t want to give you those things, but what I’m asking is:

What is your heart after? Are we running after Jesus or are we finding satisfaction in things that will never be able to fulfill us?

Jesus said once that He is the way the truth and the life and that no one comes to the father then through Him. So we need to get our focus right and ask ourselves this question. What are we running after and in which areas do we have to change our course? I think this is a question which we have to ask ourselves many times during our lifetime. Ponder on it and think about it.

Have a blessed week

Markus and Jen

Hey our friend

We had a great week in San Francisco. All our events went really well and we really saw daily Gods goodness again. We were invited to many different events and through that were able to make new friends in the neighborhood. God keeps opening doors. Keep praying for his guidance in this Christmas season. Thank you for all your prayers. We really appreciate you.

We also want to ask you to pray about to join our monthly or one time gift support team. Pray about it. You can click on this link for more info on how to support us. Thank you for considering us. It means a lot to us. May God bless you richly.

How can you be the most effective or the Organ part 1

While we were in Germany we visited a very old church. In the front part of the church they had a really big organ with big pipes. It was very impressive looking at the big organ, but then it was even more impressive to see the little keyboard on which you play the organ. It also didn’t look very impressive but the person that pushed the buttons controlled the organ. I think it is a great picture how God can use each one of us and there gifting. Just picture this. You bring Jesus to one person and that person becomes the new Billy Graham. You might not be remembered here on earth, but I promise you God remembers you. And the great thing is since God is the organ player He knows exactly how to use you at the right time. If you play the wrong tone at the wrong time the song sounds wrong, but played at the right time its beautiful. When we listen to Him He can share His heart with us and guide us. I promise you listening to God and his guidance is no wasted life, its actually the most effectively used life possible. We want to challenge you to start spending time listening to His guidance.

Have a blessed week

Markus and Jen

Hey our friend

Thanksgiving week went by so fast. We hope you had a wonderful time. We hosted a Thanksgiving meal at our apartment which was a wonderful time. This week we will have the whole DTS over to share more about the ministry and take them on a prayer walk. We are also going more towards the Christmas season. We want to encourage you to spend time in this season to really think about Jesus the man this season is about.

Also we send out our most recent newsletter this weekend. If you would like to receive it just sign up here.

We also want to ask you to pray about to join our monthly or one time gift support team. We lost a few supporters over the last few months and want to see if you would like to start partnering with God and us in the ministry we are doing here. Pray about it. You can click on this link for more info on how to support us. Thank you for considering us. It means a lot to us. May God bless you richly.

Unique is good

Recently I heard about an interesting phenomenon in the LA area. People pay a company to greet them at the airport as if they were famous. They roll out a red carpet and hire people that will wait for you and cheer at you. Then they drive you off in a limousine. The interesting thing about this is that this concept gains in Popularity. I think it is interesting how Salomon addressed this kind of situation in Proverbs 12.9

Better to be ordinary and work for a living

than act important and starve in the process.

He was talking about that it is better to be ordinary then to pretend to be something that we are not. I believe in todays society many people strive for being someone they are not. Maybe some want to be like a certain Hollywood star, a certain model or a certain successful person. But the thing is that they end up living there lives to become someone they are not and in that missing out on who God truly made them to be. I think many of those problems come from identity issues and not accepting who we are. Another one is from how we grew up and wrong things we believed that people and the enemy told us. I want to remind you today that God made you unique and wonderful. You and the world misses out if you don’t live out that uniqueness. You, the true you, brings a piece of God into this world that only you can bring. And always remember God doesn’t create junk but only unique and amazing things

Have a blessed week

Markus and Jen