Hey friend

Wow we just had an eventful week here in San Francisco. We had some great times of encouragement and prayer with one of the guys we help at the coffee shop. Praise God. Then last Friday we had the YWAM Community night which was an amazing time with over 100 people. The message was how to fight violence in the hood and bring true hope to the Kids there. Watch it on Markus and Jen News TV and be challenged. Last Saturday we got invited to the Fundraiser for the boys and girls club. Jen and I had a wonderful time with great people, food and dancing. It was encouraging to hear how God is changing lives through the work that is done in the Club. Keep us in your prayers while we do work with the kids in the club. On this link you find some pictures from that event. Oh and we also send out our most recent newsletter last week. Make sure to sign up here to always get the newest one!!

This week Bethany is joining us again on Staff in North beach which is exciting and we also have a girl from Germany join us for a 5 month internship which will be partially in North Beach. Yeah. Please pray for both of them to transition in well.

He wants alone time with you

We are only a short time away from Easter. One thing that always makes me think in that time is the fact that in the week before Jesus got crucified all the people celebrated Jesus and a week after the same people screamed out of their lungs crucify him. One thing that really struck me with that is the fact of relationship. Those people obviously didn’t truly know who Jesus is and what he is about, or they would have never turned on him. But how could they? They didn’t have a true relationship with him. They only knew what he was saying but didn’t truly know him.

If you think about a relationship between a husband and a wife you notice something as well: For them to grow closer together and fall more in love with each other they need times alone with each other. If they would always spend all their time with other people and not invest in each other they would eventually notice that there relationship isn’t as strong as it used to be.

Now translate that to your relationship with God. We need the same thing with him. It’s important to have the corporate times with him and others, but he also longs for the one and one times with us. Some things that are really important for those times are that you put your full attention into that time. That means no phone calls, texts, Facebook updates or any other distraction that takes away from that time. You would not like those things either when you are on a date with your husband or wife and they also hinder from truly getting to know someone. Then just spent regularly some quality time in Prayer with Him and also studying His word.  Set a time aside on a daily base that is your Jesus time. You will see that over time you will become closer and closer with Him. You know it might be awkward at the beginning and you might not know how to fill your time, but after a while you will notice that you don’t have enough time. Also In the example of Jesus we can see that we can’t afford not to have a close relationship with Him. What if the whole world turns against you, what do you hold on to? We want to encourage you to spend alone time with Him to really grow closer.

Have a blessed week

Markus and Jen