Hello, my dears,
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a God-filled New Year 2021.
First of all, I urge you to pray for all people: to ask and supplicate, to intercede and to give thanks, especially for those in power and those in power. We pray for them so that we can live in peace and tranquility a life that honors God in every way and that can also be respected by men. This is good and pleases God our Savior. He wants all people to be saved and to recognize the truth. For there is only one God and only one Mediator between God and man: That is JESUS CHRIST, WHO BECAME MAN and handed himself over as a ransom for all. This was the timely testimony that God wants to save people.
I would like to heed this request of Paul from the Bible, especially in this challenging time in 2020 and early 2021. Don't complain, but pray, stand before God's throne for all people and all those responsible. Ask more, thank more, beg God that people can live in peace, in peace with God, encounter him and the circumstances are such that Christians too can spread joy and confidence around them.
Paul's testimony in this passage of letters is a message of joyful Christmas. God is our Savior and He wants all people to be saved and understand the truth about us, life and God and make their way to heaven.
As a family we are on the move again. On January 13, 2021 we would like to return to Tanzania. This stirs many different feelings in us. We vacillate between the pain of saying goodbye and anticipation, between the Christmas spirit and the whirlwind of moving. We moved again from Gießen to Holzhausen in mid-December because the apartment in Gießen was no longer available. So we will be staying in Holzhausen near Wycliff a few weeks before departure. It already feels like we're losing ground. Children, like us, are more tense and irritable. We still have some way to go to make all final travel arrangements. We ask that you pray for success and for God's power at this stage. Rebekka says "that was my best year" because they've already experienced snow twice so far. She and Elijah were overjoyed.
Evening lecture in the Evangelical Community in Heuchelheim near Giessen on November 4th, 2020