Garage Sale Time!


Audra has been busy lately going through our stuff and having a garage sale. The boys were willing to let these cool RESCUE HEROES be sold from their toy collection. We are taking steps towards our soon return to Germany.

We are over 90% there with our budget! We are thankful to the many who have come alongside to support us.


Next stop: GERMANY!!

Until then...auf Wiedersehen!

Dave

Micah trying to beat the heat

We are having a HEAT WAVE!
Micah is trying to stay cool as we all are during this first wave of heat for the summer of 2006.
We are rising upward towards finishing raising our budget.
We believe that we will reach 100% by the end of June and return to Germany in July!
Stay cool!
Dave

We have 85% of our budget raised!
We only need $1,000 more in monthly pledge commitments before we can return to Germany! We are getting excited as we near the end of our itineration and see the hand of God providing the necessary funds for our mission. We are hoping to be finished in June and be able to return to Germany shortly thereafter.
Thank you to all who have joined our team!

A Thought from John Bueno

"A Finnish proverb says, "Happiness is a place between too little and too much."
One of the big issues of our walk with the Lord seems to be balance. Many positive things can become negative when they get out of balance. The enemy will also attempt to turn our concentration towards things that are not important to our real satisfaction and service to the Master.
We have all observed what happens when people seek to accumulate wealth with the ultimate purpose in mind of finding happiness. They invest all their time and energy, only to discover that their happiness does not come with an overabundance of things, but rather with a balanced life of commitment to Jesus Christ.
It is easy for us to get our priorities skewed in the business of life. We may forget that our commitment to Christ leads us to get by with fewer material things and instead focus on things of eternal value. The principle of balance applies to every area of our lives and is one of the greatest issues of Christian living. Even good things in the work of the Lord can become marred when they get out of balance and will eventually detract us from what the Bible points out as essential to our daily sustenance.
God gives us these gentle reminders in Scripture. Sometimes He even uses a proverb. I don't now if the man who wrote the Finnish proverb knew the Lord, but it is certainly a scriptural principle. Let's find that balance in our lives so we will not be disappointed at the end."
--John Bueno, Executive Director of Assemblies of God World Missions (AGWM)

Would-be German parents wait for right partner, better economy

From the German Information Center

The single greatest factor hindering Germans from having children is having not found the right life partner, according to a survey of 40,000 Germans on parenthood presented this week by the public opinion research institute Forsa.

The results of the survey, published in the magazines "Parents" and "Parents for Family," offer insight into Germany's dwindling birth rate, an issue of growing concern for government and society.
Only half as many children were born in Germany last year as 40 years ago. more

76% and counting!!!

We are on the way up! We had two good months after Christmas and went from 62% to 75% since Christmas! We are excited and thankful for all of the supporters that have joined our team!
We are aiming at June 1, 2006 as our date to return to Germany! We are believing that God will help us with the remaining support we need. The remaining 24% equals $1,700.
We need to return before summertime in order to begin reaching out to children in the warm months of summer. Please pray that we will reach our goal.
Danke!
Dave & Audra

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Off to Kentucky!

Happy New Year! (2 1/2 weeks later)
It has been a long time since I have posted a new article to this blog. I guess with all of the Christmas holiday celebration and a very busy November that pretty much explains it.
I will be spending a week in Kentucky (Jan 22-27) meeting with pastors from all over the Bluegrass State.
We are having some really crazy/warm weather here in southern Michigan! It has been really warm--today it's over 50 degrees! I guess that it's all because of global warming, right?
We are all doing well as a family and our budget is currently at 70% raised. We are hoping to be able to return to Germany by April. I must go...I have to pack and visit Mapquest like 100 times so I can find these churches, ha! Bis dann!