Wow, it is hard to believe that 2 weeks ago is when we arrived to Berlin, Germany, when we worshipped God in the train station and He provided a place to stay. We have developed so many lasting friendships in the last two weeks!
On January 2nd, we stayed with and served with YWAM Berlin until last night. The first day, one of the staff at the base led us on a prayer walk around Berlin. We prayed all over Berlin at many tourstist spots. It was a completely new way to visit a new city and it was awesome to have the chance to pray in the city we have been praying for since we knew we were going to Berlin. We had the opportunity to serve in three specific ministries here: dance workshop, Teen challenge and ministry in a park. Dan and I did not do the dance workshop as there are other people who have a heart for dancing but we did go to Teen Challange and ministry at the park.
Two other staff members, a married couple, named Micheal and Shayln have a heart for a specific park in Berlin. It is a dark part of town and the park is known for drug dealers. We went to the park three times in two weeks to prayer for the park and give out free coffee and tea to the people in the park, delevoping relationships for the YWAM base. Dan with three other team memebes had the opportunity to give coffee and tea to 10 to 15 drug dealers. At the start of the day, many were hiding in the brushes and very suspucious that we were cops. By the end of the day and as our group was leaving the park, they were oout in the open waving bye to us. It was an amazing example of God' favor. As Dan shared about his experience, he said that they were so open and friendly and had good conversations with them about thier beliefs about God. We went back again and invited the people we met to a 'Taste of Costa Rica' party we hosted on Thursday night in Berlin. Two people we met at the park came, one a drug dealer named Lucky and one a person hanging out in the park named Simon. We got to pray for Lucky as he left and a memeber of our team had the opportunity to led Simon to Christ after our party.
This past Tuesday night, Dan and I went to Teen Challenge, which is a ministry that serves food to the homeless everyday in Berlin. As we were preparing the meal, we learned there was a man who was Deaf that worked there named Helmi! I ended up talking with him for the whole night and interpret for the meeting and songs sung by our group. He signed in German Sign Langauge and me in American Sign Language but we were able to communicate through gestures and were able to understand each other no problem. I learned many German signs! It was so fun!He was an amazing encouragement to me as he loved Jesus and knew the Bible soooooo well. For the whole night, he shared about his life, family and passion for Isreal and heart for Jews. We exchanged emails and plan to stay friends. It was a divine appointment from God.
Germany!!
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Well after a 13 hour plane trip we made it safely to Frankfurt, Germany. It is cold here(especiallty after costa rica!!) and they have some snow. We spent new years eve night in a church. We got to see the most spactacular fireworks that i have ever seen!! We left on the 1st for Berlin and made it after a 9 hour train trip on 4 different trains. We arrived in Berlin main train station at 8:30pm with no place to stay that night. Our plans fell through for that night and so our leaders asked God what to do. We ended up just playing worship in the train station in 25F degree weather and trusting God he would provide. (All of the hostles that we checked were full). We made some signs that said FREE HUGs in English and German and continued worshiping and hugging everyone we could. It was an amazing time of trusting on God. We met many people and had many great opportunities to share Gods love that night. After about 1.5 hours we met a women that was passing by and stopped. She said after leaving and coming back that we could stay in the prayer room building of the church that she goes to called Bethel. It was very closeby and we could walk!! So we went and all 19 of us stayed in a house of prayer. Many of our team stayed up most of the night praying and reading the bible with other members of this church!! It was crazy. Just like the apostles in Acts. I had the opportunity to talk to the pastor the next morning and he was very excited about us being here. He shared that he had just preached the day before on there needing to be an overflowing and outpouring within their church and in Berlin. And now here we are overflowing their house of prayer! They were a blessing to us as we were a blessing to them. We are now planning to do ministry with this church in the next week and attending their church service tonight. It is crazy because we did not even know about this church 3 days ago!
Since then we have now been staying the last 3 days with YWAM Berlin. We are doing dance, prostitute, homeless, and drug addict ministries this week. Also we have been doing many prayer walks all over Berlin. As well, today we did questionaires in a popular mall, engaging people with conversations about their culture and God. Some others were playing music in another train station and giving free hugs!
We have been very busy but it has been a great time so far!
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