Outreach at Marienthal, France 26th - 29th October

A group of more than 70 teenagers preparing for confirmation in our region gathered at Kloster Marienthal during their Autumn school holidays for a youth retreat before their confirmation in November.

Derek & I were invited to work together with the team who has been guiding these teenagers for 6 weeks in preparation for their confirmation.

It was a challenge for most of the people in the team since the teenagers were not very interested in what was shared. Slowly, we could see them getting more and more excited about God as some of us shared our experiences and as they themselves experienced the touch of God when we prayed for them.

On the last evening, we prayed for them individually and many shared of a deeper encounter with God and that something changed in them... It was amazing to see their facial expressions and hear them describing their experience.

Much of the grace that we experienced must have come from the prayers of the nuns in the convent. They have 24hour-adoration and were praying for the young people during our time there. We had a chance to celebrate mass with them and also prayed the Liturgy of the hours in the Bassilica with them, all in French! Their angelic voices were in such harmony...

Indeed, we had a great time there, apart from witnessing many conversions, we also made new friends from the area.

On our way home, Werner brought us to the French/German border and we got over to the German border on a ferry. That was his gift to me on my birthday!

Holidays at Zermatt 11th - 18th October

We spent a week at Zermatt, having some relaxing time together. We planned to go for a holiday to mark our 10th wedding anniversary and chose to go to Zermatt in Switzerland, one of the highest points in Europe where the Matterhorn is located.

Our holidays were made possible by our friend, Beatrice, who owns a few holiday flats in Zermatt.

Derek was totally fascinated by the magnificent view and took many photos during our time there. Here are some shots of the Matterhorn which he took every morning/evening!

We did a lot of walking and climbing... always amazed by the view in different angles.

Grateful to God for his providence through our friend, being among millionaires in one of the World's famous Ski Resorts!

Celebrating 10 years of God's Faithfulness!

10 years ago, on 10th October 1998, we had our wedding here in Allerheiligen. On this beautiful autumn day, we are reminded of God's faithfulness in this journey together.

Throughout the many challenges in the past 10 years, we have experienced much of God's grace.


Some of our friends enjoying a cup of Chrysanthemum tea with us...

Thank you for your prayers, greetings and wishes!

School of Missions 2008/9 - Fix your eyes on Jesus

Today, we had the opening mass for the School of Missions with Bishop Klug presiding the mass. We have 11 participants from 6 different countries. A family from Germany - Michael,Theresa and their daughter Clara, is a fruit of the last school outreach. We met them while on outreach in the parish of Kolbermoor, near Munich.

It marks another beautiful event of seeing God's faithfulness as the participants make themselves available during these 4 months to "fix their eyes on Jesus" and be refreshed by Him. Although we are not directly involved in the school this time, we share the excitement with them, anticipating God's work in their lives in the coming days...

May God's anointing be poured out on all of them as they fix their eyes on Him...

Jump Start at Leipzig 22nd-25th September

Login Jugendwochenende (Youth Weekend) 26th - 28th September

Holidays at the Hubers 7th - 20th September

Our friends Anja & Elmar recently moved into their new house near Landsberg, about 30km from Augsburg. We thought of blessing them by helping them out with the move. Derek was painting and rebuilding shelves while I took care of the children when Anja was sorting things out.

Our 2 weeks with them was a blessed filled time, having much fun with their 3 children - Katharina, Raphael and Josua. Josua is my godson and it was great to have spent some time to get to know him...

We celebrated many events together... Katharina's 1st school day, Raphael's 1st day in Kindergarten, Anja's mum's birthday... Wonderful to have seen the joyful atmosphere in the family, celebrating every event in honour of each other.

Outing to Ammersee
a few kilometers from the place where Elmar works.

Anja & Josua - look who's finishing the spaghetti...

On the diving tower, 9 meters high!

With Anja, Katharina & Raphael

Outing to Landsberg



Our last evening together

With Josua, 18th months old - Bea's godson

Enjoying a nice meal prepared by Anja & Derek

Derek's trip to Austria





We ended our trip with an outreach to a youth group in Biburg. About 40 youths attended the weekly prayer meeting. Derek shared about "Choices" before the worship and we also made ourselves available to pray for those who came for prayer with their specific requests. In short, we were very impressed by the group, a family atmosphere with good attitude towards one another and a big heart to know Jesus.