Hey our friend

We had a great week here in San Francisco. Our first seminar last Saturday was a success. It was all about how to live the great commission with bringing hope to people around you. Its exciting to see how god brings things from a vision into reality. Its so awesome!! We have been really moving forward in every area of the ministry which is awesome. Our God is an awesome God!!

Please keep the base in your prayers since the first deadline is approaching on July 25^th. http://www.ywamsanfrancisco.org/miracle/ Also keep praying for Jen and me to find the times of rest in business.

Here is a quick thought for the week for you from a message I heard from Paul Manwaring  and here is the link so you can listen to it as well!!

Look at what you have and not at what you don’t have.

What the German Worldcup soccer team can teach us

Schweinsteiger cares about Messi after win

Sorry that I took a week of from our series Heroes of challenge but I felt God gave me a different topic for this week. During the last month the world cup was going on in Brazil and teams from all over the world came together and played each other. One thing that really stuck out to me was the idea of playing as a team. Many teams in the world cup had many Star players, but a star player can’t do everything by himself. What it really takes is a team, a team that works together and fights together.

That is also a great picture for us as a church. We have people that are great speakers, some are great evangelists, some are helping to support the team. But I tell you one thing, each of those is equally important. Just because someone speaks in the front doesn’t make him more important than anyone else. Without a team he would have no stage, microphone or anything he needs to share. So I want to encourage all of us to be a community that lives by those principles. Honor each other. Never look down on people instead help them up. When we always work as a team things are moving forward even if we don’t have the best in each category. Look at the German team. They had great players but none of them was famous like a Messi or Rondaldo. But in the end they won because they played together as a team.

One last thing that is great about a team is that we can celebrate together and encourage each other. If you are alone, all eyes are on you and if you fail, which all of us do sometimes, who is with you? If you have a team they can pull you back up. Plug into your church and be part of the team!!

God bless you
Markus and Jen