We’ve had some very good times with the students and with the Campus Crusade folk here. They asked us to share with their university leaders from around northern German our story and the vision for Haus Nazareth. It was a moving time, reconnecting with some and getting to know others.

We also had another amazing re-connection over a three-hour lunch with a former German campus director, Rainer Harnisch. He is now working with business leaders in China (!) and media people as well as students.  It’s almost as if God has been preparing us to work together again.  Please keep praying that we will see God’s will and way clearly and make good decisions about where the work here can best begin.

Thursday to Sunday we met with church leaders in Berlin at a mini conference called “Transforum”, where interested people came together to talk about the needs of Berlin and other large cities.  It was quite a while since we have touched base with many of these people (some of them were students when we knew them), but it was very encouraging. We met one Lutheran pastor in particular who has planted a church among former atheists. Hearing him speak and comparing notes with him showed us that much of what we have learned about sharing with secularized people is transferable!

Please continue to pray that God will lead very clearly in these first steps of putting down our roots again here.