Hi praying friends!

Big news this week - our book project, "Tulips and Ashes," just went live on Kickstarter. I cannot really even begin to tell you how excited we are about this project.

One of our top 5 is to work with artists and creatives, and to foster art and creativity at our Envision Berlin site. This project is an amazing collaboration between a friend of ours, Ira Kapitonova, and Envision Berlin. Ira has been writing daily posts since Russia invaded Ukraine, and members of the Envision Berlin team have compiled and organized them in an absolutely beautiful book that will be released in February - 2 years after Russia invaded.

Ira's posts have been nothing short of amazing. Our team has invested hours in taking posts written for Facebook and compiling them in a book format - and I am really proud of the work they have done.

Check it out here! Could you also please consider supporting this project? We are one day in, and already have more than 15% of the pledges needed. Could you, as our prayer supporters, possibly help us reach the goal on day 2? Wouldn't that be amazing??

Here is the link: Tulips and Ashes - Kickstarter

Here are some other prayer requests:

1. We are driving to meet Ira tomorrow in Prague. Pray for safe travel. It is about a 4-hour drive each way.
2. Pray for Joshua - he is finishing up a second week away at school.
3. Pray for Johannah as she settles into her new apartment.
4. We have a short-term team coming from New York at the end of the month - can you pray for them as make their final preparations?
5. The online retreat Elissa and I attended with the Northumbria Community went really well. Please pray for us as we evaluate next steps as far as levels of involvement.

Thank you so much for your prayers!

Blessings,

mike