Apartment

We are finally making some headway in the apartment...yeah! This past week we painted the living room and bedroom. We loved the color in the living room but the bedroom turned out a little too neon green for me...so we used the extra paint from the living room to re-paint a few walls of the bedroom. It looks much better now! 

The green room...thats now re-painted...pics to come later

Chris and Nada wallpapered our kitchen for us....which was an unbelievable task! Here in Germany the walls are concrete and the codes are that you have to put this base of wallpaper down before installing anything in the kitchen. Chris and Nada are true friends...they have helped us so much, translating, paperwork, bank stuff and now wall paper! We are so blessed to know them and call them our friends! 

The Kitchen parts

Chris and Nada wallpapering

Last weekend Nada's family helped us move in the big pieces of furniture. They also gave us all kind of cool things...pots, pitchers, bowls, candlestick holders etc. They are such sweet and helpful people (I guess that were Nada learned it from!) Yeah...they have been such a blessing to us and we are so thankful for all their help and kindness. 

All the awesome things Nada's family gave us!

Today Chris and Paul are working building the kitchen...and then I think Chris' brother-in-law Marcus is going to help us cut and install the countertop!

Thats all for now...thanks for all your prayers!

Communion

This week we had a wonderful Bible study and worship service in Chris and Nada's apartment here in Münster.   It's been so exciting for us to see the Lord bringing new faces to this Bible study every week.
We have not taken communion as part of this Bible study in prior weeks, but Chris felt the Lord lead him to provide communion this week.  As we were worshiping together and taking communion for the first time as a church I think we all felt like this was a special moment for us.

The apartment was totally full, even though not everyone came that would have normally.  We are praying and seeking God for an opportunity to rent a building and start having services on Sunday as soon as possible.

Please continue to pray for us as God is truly moving in this city.  This week we meet a Romanian man named John who is a homeless orphan who's about my age.  We've been meeting with him sharing with him through our friend here who speaks Romanian.  He's very thankful for the help we have been giving him and wants to know more about Jesus and the Bible.  We're going to be meeting with him and reaching out to other homeless Romanians here, and we are praying about having a Bible study and worship in Romanian for them.

We're going to be posting an update video with lots more information in the next day or two so you will see more about what God is doing here.

Shalom~
Paul and Becca

A Heartfelt Welcome

We have had a great week here in Münsterland! On Saturday Chris and Nada had a official "welcome to Münster" dinner party for us! It was a sweet time of fellowship. We played some games and ate some amazing food that Nada had prepared. Then Chris and some others laid hands on us and prayed for us and our ministry here. It was such a blessing!

Welcoming gifts people gave us! 

Our contract and keys

An awesome thing that happened this week...the Lord has provided us an apartment! Nada found this ad in the newspaper and we called the number, viewed the apartment and fell in love with it! Its perfect...close to Chris and Nada, to the city and a shopping center. Not to mention that it is in our budget! After a few days of prayer and the Lord giving the landlord peace about renting to us, Friday we signed our contract and Saturday we had our keys! The apartment is completely unfurnished, we already have some furniture but are in need of a kitchen. So please pray that we can find one! The Lord has been so faithful and it just blowing us all away at how He is providing! Here are some pictures of the new apartment...we will start working on it this week so that we can move in soon! We will post some "after" pictures later...

Living Room

Bedroom

Kitchen

View from our balcony

Bathroom

 

Our balcony area

Today we did our first prayer walk through the city. It was a good time to get out explore and hear from the Lord about His heart for this city and these people. We actually made a few connections while we were out, which was really sweet! Here are a few shots I took while we were out:

Map of the city

Art is everywhere in this city

Funny statue

Poetry vending machine!

As always....thank you all for your prayers and support! Its such a blessing to know that people our praying for us and the church plant here in Münster. We will be updating the current prayer requests on the "support info" page above. The Lord delights to hear the prayers of His children and we have the privilege of seeing your prayers answered in a real way! Blessings to you all! 

The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer. -- E. M. Bounds 

For all you Sandy Cove people!

This past weekend....

Time has been flying by here...it feels like we just got here yesterday and it will be two weeks tomorrow! So much has been happening its hard to keep up on everything, we have been meeting and fellowshipping with new people almost every day since we arrived...so I will try to condense the events of this weekend...

Sunday we left for Siegen, which is about 1 1/2 hours away from Münster. We attended the second service at CC Siegen and afterwards got to see some old friends from Bible College, which was really nice! Afterward we went for a walk down memory lane, visited the Villa and ate lunch at the best Döner shop in all of Germany. Döner is kind of hard to explain...but basically its a kebab sandwich from Turkey that is amazing! Afterward we went to Nada's sister's house, which is where we were all going to be staying.

After meeting Nada's family, Marcus (Nada's brother-in-law) took us on a walk through the forest. It was beautiful and the mountain air was so refreshing! He told us about all the different kinds of things that grow in the forest there, one of which is wild mushrooms. And so began our mushroom hunt! We gathered a bunch of mushrooms and when we got home Marcus cooked them and we ate them with dinner! It was a true old country thing...I felt very European in that moment, thinking of all the stories I have heard from my grandparents of such things.

Monday morning Nada and I drove to Herborn to attend the very first CC Pastor's Wife conference held in Germany. It was a sweet day, lots of prayer, worship and fellowship! I was able to meet Pastor Wives from all over Germany, some who have been here for 10+ years and others who have only been here for a few years. It was really cool hearing all their stories and how God called them to Germany and to start a church. The event was so nice and I felt so blessed to be part of it! The theme verse was "With God all things are possible..." Matthew 19:26

Before we left Siegen Nada's family prepared an awesome brunch for us...they were so hospitable! Very sweet people!

Tonight we had Bible study....there were about 15 people this week...the apartment was pleasantly packed! Please pray for the Wednesday night study and also that the Lord would provide a place for us to meet on Sundays.

Thank you all for your prayers...the Lord is answering and providing in so many amazing ways! May the Lord bless you all and keep you and make His face shine upon you!

Shalom