I told you my plans...

I told you my plans, and you answered Psalm 119,26

Truly God answered. I told Him my plans, my desires and thoughts and He answered each of them this year... sometimes different than I thought but always better than I did :)

I'm so excited about what God has for me next year... that I can just step in the steps He already went.

God is everything!

May you have a blessed New Year start and may you celebrate everyday with Jesus!

He knows...
He is able...
He takes care...
He answeres...
He does things you never imagine...


HE IS IN LOVE WITH YOU!!!

God bless!

You get almost everything in Cologne ...

Today (well now it's yesterday :) ) Dami, Andi and I went to Cologne for shopping...

And as we went through the shopping street in Cologne we saw this sign and I thought if it just could be so easy :)


(Men-closing out sale)

Enough said :)

Good night!

Merry Christmas!

Hey... to you all who read my block...

I wish you a Merry Christmas... a special one!

May God pour out His spirit upon you all!

Blessings and love!

The things which are impossible with men are possible with God

...Luke 18,27


I'm thankful that God knows everything! He knows our hearts desires and our thoughts that no one else knows and if we give Him them He will take care of it!

I know we kind of know that but its easier to write it down or to tell others but to believe it for yourself... sometimes not so easy!

BUT...

... even when we doupt > He is still God... and Gods word is still Gods word!

And His word says *Delight yourself also in the Lord and He shall give you the desires of your heart* *Commit your ways unto Him and He shall bring them to pass* Psalm 37-45 ... thats His word and His word is true!!!

So I have to remeber myself everyday that God is still God even when I cant see His hand or hear His heartbeat! He is still there!

May you be encouraged and blessed today

God bless

Christmas party...

Tomorrow I'll have my first christmas party out of 6...

We'll have the christmas party for the homeless people on Thursday. We serve dinner (really good dinner) someone gives his testemony and than everyone gets a gift (warm socks, a woollen hat, a street bible, cough drops and sweets). It will be my first one and I'm glad to experience one :)

Friday will be the staff christmas party and on Saturday the childrens ministry party plus I'm helping at the Biblecollege staff party in the evening. Next week we go to Essen to a prison-christmas party from the organisation Engelbaum where we celebrate christmas with the families whoes Dads are in prison and in the evening I'm gone help at the youth party...

So... as you can imagine I'll have a lot of gifts to wrap and a lot to do :)

I'm still really excited to live and to work here! God is so good!!!

Well... I got to go now... it was a long busy day and I'm about to go to bed :)

Yes... even that its 8 p.m.... I'm getting older :)

God bless

Done...

The appartment in Siegen is empty...



and I finished renovating my room with my dad today


I have the best dad ever!...



The suite for Black pepper is also ready and waits for him to arrive



I got a big room, a kitchen I can use, a living room and bathrooms with 4 toilettes and two showers :) (but I just use one each) :)


God just amazes me how He answers prayers beyond what we ask or think!!!!

Well now I'm really tired (worked last night until 1 a.m. and got up at 6 a.m. ...

So... I'll go to bed now

God bless and good night

A new step....

God is just so amazing... I can't stop to thank Him that he really answered my prayers...
The last two years I felt that God was listening but not really answering... BUT the whole time He was preparing me for the job He wants me to do for the next season of my life :) :) :)

Today was my first day at Hands of Hope here in Altenseelbach... its so interesting that 2002 I was at the exact same place here in Altenseelbach to study the Bible at the Bible College (it was the last semester before the College moved to Eiserfeld) and now I'm back :) ... in an amazing ministry... truly "Hands of Hope"... A minsitry for the people here in Siegen no one else really cares about...

Also my dream to stay in the childrens ministry came true... I'll work here at Hands of Hope and also in the childrens ministry... God just didn't give me the best but the very best!!! :)

AND... I'll also move... I'll have a wonderful... awesome... amazing place I'll live...

So let me tell you from my experience... even if it seems God doesn't answer your prayers (even if it takes about 2 years or in other things over 4 years) HE ANSWERS... HE PROMISED...

Delight yourself also in the Lord and He shall give you the desires of your heart!
Commit your ways to the Lord and He shall bring it to pass

Psalm 37:4-5


GOD takes you serious

God bless

Back in Germany...

Wow this trip to Jordan and Israel was such a blessing!!! I learned so much!

Back in Germany a new adventure starts for me!

I resigned from my job at the realaste management and gone start working for Hands of Hope and the childrens ministry here at the church.

I'm so blessed that it was totally God who worked everything out!

Well... I have to work now.. but I'll post more about it later!

Last day in Jordan...

Yesterday we went to the castle and it was beautiful!!!!






I met Ghadeer she is just a wonderful woman and we had a lot of fun as you can see!


Afterwards we went to buy coffee :) and I got a hair cut... I went in... she cut about 5 minutes... and I was done :) they are faster here in Jordan then in Germany!
In the evening we had youth group which was so much fun... Finally I could play basketball again...


Today we will go to Amman to prepare the screening that will be on Tuesday... which I will miss because I fly back home :(

So...Today will be my last day in Jordan :(

Tomorrow I'm heading back to Israel and stay there one day in Jerusalem... Hopefully I'll can go to the Garden Tomb...

So this will be my last blog here...

I praise God for this trip...I learned A LOT and one word SHUKRAN (Danke)

Happy Birthday Jomana

Today we had a big birthday party... about 40 kids came from the neighbourhood :)

First everyone got a crown






Then we played games








Esther told the story about Solomon and the Bible College Studens did the songs... then all the kids had the birthday cake










and afterwards we did games in different room...

One mom about 27 years old saw me smiling at her daughter (4 month old) and she allowed me to carry her around.. and then she said I should take her to Germany and she really meant it!!!! She told me that about 4 times... but... I decided not to :)



Tomorrow we will go to Kerak to see a castle and then we will go to the youth group!

God bless

Jordan...

Yesterday we went to Shevet Achim in Jerusalem... and as you can see...








We also met ESTHER :)



Now...I'm in Jordan... we passed the dead sea...










I am really tired and probably going to bed very very soon :) :) :)

There are so many impressions and I dont know where to start!

Tomorrow the "busy" week starts... we are already scheduled for helping at a big birthday party what means that we will cook, clean and prepare everything for Friday... I'm excited about that because I will get to know a whole new culture!
Tomorrow 5 Bible school students from Jerusalem will come to do a youth thing here at the church where we will help also... we met them yesterday already at the Bible College that we stayed in...

Until now God did already great things but more later...

God bless

I love Israel

Marianne and I are in Israel right now and planning on going to the boarder in a couple of hours... so my next blog will be in Jordan...

Jordan here we come...

Only 1 evening left :) and Marianne and I are on our trip to JORDAN...


We are going to visit a Missionary familie and my dear friend Esther... our duties will probably be... cooking, cleaning, playing with the kids, helping at a birthday party (about 60 kids will come :) ), and getting deeper into the work of Shevet Achim...


I'm excited :)


I also want to ask you for prayer... for the border crossing, for love and a servant heart... also my headaches got worse again... THANKS!!!!


I try to update my blog as soon as possible...

So... hopefully my next blog will be from Jordan :) :)

God bless

Come to me you who are weary and burdened...

Come to me you who are weary
and burdened and I will give you rest. Matt. 11:28


...That is totally what God taught me the last couple of weeks... with everything I can come to Him and He really takes care of it :) God is sooooo good!




....He also taught me again that I need to cast all anxiety on Him for He cares for me...

So often I'm overwhelmed with situations in my life but God remembers me that He is still in control!


May God also encourage you this week in the way you need it!


BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD!


ONLY 7 DAYS LEFT till Marianne and I are on our Trip to JORDAN! :) :) :)

Shevet Achim Deutschland e.V.

Yesterday we finally registered Shevet Achim Deutschland e.v.

Information to Shevet Achim....

Shevet Achim (Jerusalem) was founded in 1994 with the purpose of helping non-Israeli children receive lifesaving medical care in Israel. Their name is taken from the Hebrew of Psalm 133, which promises that unity between brothers leads to life; they believe this to be true of the troubled relationship between Isaac and Ishmael (Jews and Muslims) in the Middle East. To live this out Shevet Achim seeks to "go and do likewise" as the Good Samaritan, who crossed lines of division to show that an enemy is in fact a neighbor also loved by God.

Shevet Achim works work from the historic building in Jerusalem which housed the first children's hospital in the Middle East, and is registered in both Israel and the US as a non-profit organization, overseen by a board which includes Chuck Kopp, pastor of the Narkis Street International Congregation in Jerusalem; Jonathan Miles, international coordinator of Shevet Achim; David Pileggi, rector of Christ Church in Jerusalem; and Jim Schutz, local congregations liaison with the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem.


The duties of the german association of Shevet Achim are to advertice what Shevet Achim is doing and to inform people who have questions about it. If somebody donates something to Shevet Achim Deutschland we will make sure that the money goes where it's suppose to go...

I'm so excited about the things God will do...

When you go to the wepage of Shevet Achim (www.shevet.org) you see the kids that need donations in order to get an operation... when you see the before and after pictures its just amazing to see how fast they recover after their surgery...

Please pray for Shevet Achim!! May God use it to shine His light in the Middle East!

Don't be afraid...

Psa 118:5-6 I called on the Lord in distress; The Lord answered me and set me in a broad place. The Lord is on my side; I will not fear.

Psa 56:3-4 Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in You. In God (I will praise His word), In God I have put my trust; I will not fear.

Jhn 14:27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

God give me wisdom... lead me...

God promised us to give us wisdom when we ask and so here I am asking for wisdom!!

There are some things going on right now in my life that I need a lot of wisdom for... I don't know what to do... what to say... where to go...

Lord please help!...
.... help me to remeber that nothing can happen today and the days to come that YOU and I can't handle together....

Back in Germany...

Jippieh :) Noah and Kate are FINALLY married :)

May God bless them!

The wedding was so beautiful!

It was such a joyful one!

Oh what else can I say... other than.... I'm soooooooooooo blessed!

This was the best trip ever! (I even got a dress :) )

The way back we drove through the alps of France, through Monaco (one of the loveliest countries I have seen :) ), through the alps in Italy, Switzerland and then after almost 17 hours in the car we came home...
I really can say that God was with us and that we had a lot of angels around the car because Christoph was the only one allowed to drive (German law...)! He did such a good job driving such a long time... Thank God!

It was also such a blessing seeing the handiwork of Gods creation and getting some time away from everything that is going on right now in my life...

Blessed be the name of the Lord because He has good thoughts towards us!
In Him!

France... I'm coming!

God is so good to me!

I'm so excited that God worked it out for me to go to Kates and Noahs wedding to FRANCE...

I still can't believe it...

I feel kind of exhausted and desired to get away for sometime and now I can :)
After a long time of waiting if I get a day off or not I finally know that I will be in Fance in about 2 days...

I'm so thankful for that...its just a blessing to see Noah and Kate getting married and to celebrate that with my other friends... I still remeber them at the Bible college... God is so amazing! :)

So... the only problem I have now is to find a dress :) :) :)

May God bless your week and may He also provide some rest for you!

Isaiah 41,10

Don't be afraid,
**** for I am with you.
Do not be dismayed,
**** for I am your God.
I will strengthen you.
I will help you.
I will uphold you with my victorious right hand



Thank you God that you encourage us everytime we need it!

You alone God...

I cry out to the Lord;
I plead for the Lord's mercy.
I pour out my complaints before him
and tell him all my troubles.
For I am overwhelmed,
and you alone know the way I should turn.
Wherever I go,
my enemies have set traps for me.
I look for someone to come and help me,
but no one gives me a passing thought!
No one will help me;
no one cares a bit what happens to me.
Then I pray to you, O Lord.
I say, "You are my place of refuge.
You are all I really want in life.
Hear my cry,
for I am very low.
Rescue me from my persecutors,
for they are too strong for me.
Bring me out of prison
so I can thank you.
The godly will crowd around me,
for you treat me kindly.

Psalm 142

Trust...

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Matthew 6:33



Now there is no way to go back :)
Yesterday Marianne and I booked our flight to Jordan :)
We definitely need Gods provision and wisdom in the things to come... but as He promised when we seek Him first and His righteousness all these other things will be added unto us...

Its definitely exciting how God will lead us!

God bless you!

He gives and takes away

As God gives us friends He sometimes "takes" them and sends them to another place...
Well for me the sometimes became very often... it started with my best friend Sarah and it went on and on...
Next Sunday a dear friend of mine will also be going to the mission field to Agentina... When I thought about it, this song came into my mind that *He gives and takes away*. I was really sad on Sunday when my friend Meike was send out from my church and I thought that I dont want to invest in a friendship anymore when God "takes" her away after a while but then I talked to another friend of mine and she said that we just need to learn to enjoy the friendship as long as we can and then we need to except it when God has other plans...
We took this pic for Meike from her closes friends and I just thought I put it here to see "Who is next" to go :)
I love how God sends people in our lives just at the right time!

May God give us the friends we need at the right time and may we be thankful!
Blessings

Silence...

Today I'm a little bit earlier at the church to organize some stuff and I cant wait until all the kids arrive... without them its so silent here... not life at all....
We have the theme patience today... well I don't think I'm the right person to talk about patience because I'm not patient at all!
May God use me and even teach me things while I'm speaking :)

For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy;

giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.

He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love...

Col. 1:9-13

You are special

Just think,

you are not here by chance,
but by God's choosing,
His hand formed you and made you the person you are,
He compares you to no one else-
you are one of a kind,
You lack nothing that His grace can't give you
He has allowed you to be here at this time of history
to fulfill His special purpose for this generation.

Roy Lessing

Praise God that He compares us to no one else - like the world always does - and that we lack nothing that His grace can't give us.

Let's be the vessel that God can use for His purposes!

I need to learn how to listen...

...that is what God teaches me right now... "Just listen to me"

...What are His plans and His disire for my life? Is the work I do right now all that I'm suppose to do? Is it maybe a training time for something else He has in store...

I'm still working at the church and I really learn a lot. In the afternoon I work at a company so that I can pay my bills - but that is deffinetly not what I want to do all my life... I'm praying if God wants me to go to the Missionfield again... but all I still here ist "be still and know that I'm God" and be faithful in the small things"...

I'm planing on going to Jordan for a week with my dear friend Marianne around September and I'm excited that I can finally go on a "Mission trip" again... I truly miss that!!!!
My heart still beats for missions... right now I'm just able to pray for the Missionaries but maybe someday I will be on the field again... I really don't want to go alone again. I mean Paul went together with others and Jesus sent his desciples to go by two or more but never to go by themselves... I really hope He puts His desire on someone else to go with me... I will see...

God spoke to me on Sunday night - through an amazing studie that I need to just delight in Him and He will take care about everything else... God is so good! I really want to learn to delight myselfe fully in Him...
God bless

God is working

Well.. since my last blog there were no great changes in my life BUT God is @ work.
He just challenged me to trust in Him alone in every circumstance... sometimes its hard for me to trust Him in certain areas... and when I trust Him I have no patience.
I gave Him the pen to write my life, even my love life! He is the best author of writing an adventures and wonderful book of my and your personal life...
Allow Him to write it!
So... I'm still working at the church part time and part time for an real estate agent...
I just love my kids at the childrens ministry... Right now we talk about Eliah and instead of me teaching the kids God uses the lessons to teach me...
It's ok to have times before the Lord when we just rest like Eliah! I mean isn't it amazing that when He was weak God provided breakfast for Him so that He could stay in bed :) 1. Kings 19

Amazing **** God uses weak people to glorify Himself through them ***
REST IN HIM! WHY STRESS OUT GOD WORKS IT OUT!

You are never less alone than alone with God!!!

My first entry

Well... what can I say...

I just want to use this page to share a little bit about what is going on in my life right now...

This past year was over so quickly and I just realized that I work now 1 year at my job and at the church.
I really thought that I would be here only for a short time (a really short time :) - I'm not a patient person; I would like to know right now what the future holds...) but Gods ways are different and better.
God just continued to show me His faithfulness and that He will take care of me.
I don't know how long I will be were I am right now I just can trust that He will direct my path (Psalm 37:5)

This is my rabbit Black Pepper... I got him one year ago :) Someone from Belize gave him his name when she saw a picture of him and believe me this name fits... I love this guy... Its cool to have someone that waits for you when you come home... and he just listens when I talk :)

Well that will be it for right now...