I want to share with you a very special note from a woman grad student from South America who met the Lord while in Berlin staying at Haus Nazareth:

Dear Friends,
I really want to thank you for all the support and friendship that I received in Haus Nazareth. I am really glad I lived with you these four months.
It seemed to be a coincidence; however, I know God led me there to experience life in a Christian Community. It was really great.
As most of you know, I was facing a hard moment in my life when I arrived in Germany. I am sure it would have been horrible without your help and friendship.
In the end, I was happy to be in Berlin, and definitely I will miss you a lot.
Have a great New Year. I hope God blesses all of you and gives you what your hearts want and need…

Notes like this are a special encouragement… and part of the fruit of your prayers and friendship!

Thank you!

Hope you’ve had a wonderful Christmas-tide and a super start to the new year!
Report on Pre-Christmas: The “Festival of Light” went wonderfully! We had about 50 people in the Garden House (former kindergarten building) as we explained the Jewish festival of Chanukka and its connection to Jesus’ claim to be “the Light of the world”. Some deeply personal conversations with several “not-yet” believers resulted. Please pray that God’s Spirit will use the love and friendship these folk sensed together with the content of the message and questions discussed to move them closer to Jesus!
Three days later, we traveled to the western part of Germany to celebrate Christmas with Daniel’s parents (Erich and Doris) and family and to speak at the home church of his mother in the Westerwald (”Western-forest”).
It was a wonderful time: these are the folk who sent a team of professional tradesmen from the congregation to lay paving stones for the back area patio here in Haus Nazareth. They are warm, transparent people who have a deep desire to do things for God’s Kingdom.
I preached on the three sermons of the Apostle Paul in Acts 13-17… focusing in particular on the reason why Paul gave so much background information to the non-Jewish audiences to whom he spoke.
This is an important topic for people working in a post-Christian environment like Berlin, with only 1.5% church attendance. The simple reason is: the story of Jesus and His life and sacrifice for us is only truly understandable if you have what the film industry calls the “backstory” of the reality of cosmic evil, creation, the fall of the human race into enmity with God and the divine initiative He took to reclaim and redeem His lost creation.

Clark visiting with some of the tradesmen and their wives after the service

More good news: Our boxes from the U.S. arrived today! Since my back is also doing quite a bit better, we were able to get them up the front stairs into the building!