Dear Praying Friends,

Thank you so much for praying for us last week! The team from Crown was great. We saw them off early Friday morning (and by we, I mean our amazing resident Josh), had a great weekend (including a picnic with our church family) - and Monday morning started a busy week of meetings and preparation for new intern arriving today and a team arriving on Friday.

As we have been engaging more with teams, interns, and regular ministry rhythms here in Berlin-Weißensee (where there are 40,000 people and less than 0.3% church attendance) - we are noticing what feels like increased spiritual resistance. What does that look like? People on STT's are reporting more nightmares and difficulty sleeping, on our team we find ourselves wrestling with thoughts and concerns that are abnormal, struggle "settling in" to different normal tasks or spiritual rhythms. There could be other reasons for some of these things - but our sense is that there is likely a spiritual root. Could you please pray for us?

Pray also for:

1. Some ongoing legal questions (seems like we always have some!!) It can be challenging to find the right people to ask with the variety of tasks we have.
2. Our arriving intern (Hudson) had his flight out of the US delayed. He should arrive today still, just later than planned!
3. A short-term team arrives on Friday!
4. Our son Joshua has some major tests this week.
5. Our son Caleb is working at his internship for his Social Work degree - pray as he finishes that up (it runs through August.)
6. Our daughter Johannah is searching for a new job. Pray for her as she looks!

Thanks for your prayers - we appreciate you! Please let us know how we can support you in prayer.

Blessings,

mike