Dear Praying Friends,Thank you so much for praying for our engagement with artists. Last week our pilot Art O'Clock had 5 artists share for 5 minutes (with an additional 5 minutes of questions regarding their work) - and we were able to start tweaki...

Dear Praying Friends,As an Envision Team we read Sho Baraka's book, "He Saw That It Was Good." In it, he referenced some of his own struggles as a musician performing in Christian venues and the challenges that brought to his song-writing. There we...

Hi praying friends!On the 3rd Wednesday of the month people from the various C&MA ministries in Berlin come together for a beautiful prayer time. International Workers working with Germans, Spanish, and Arabic people in Berlin as well as leaders...

Hi praying friends,Some of you have been getting our prayer letter for years, so this theme might be something you have heard before!At the beginning of the summer, we had 41 days with no measurable rain. It raised all sorts of conversations in Berl...

Hi praying friends!One of my favorite guilty music pleasures is a bluegrass cover band called the Cleverly's. They do covers of popular songs, and their newest album dropped this week with covers of Right Place Wrong Time, Let's Get it Started, Cree...

Hi praying friends!I am back in the office this morning, trying to catch up on hundreds of emails before a day full of meetings. I am really, really bad at taking my vacation days. Last year I finished the year with over half of my days remaining -...

Hi praying friends,Today I drove one of our interns to the airport. Maria had served for 6 weeks with us, and was one of our first "artists-in-residence." She is a budding author and spent 20 hours a week honing her writing craft. Yesterday aftern...

Hi Praying Friends!Tomorrow our daughter Johannah boards an airplane to fly to Berlin for 12 days - our family of 5 will be all in one place again! Yay!We will be spending a few days together up on the Baltic Sea, and then enjoying some time togeth...

Hi praying friends,One of the really important aspects of our ministry is working hard to establish a sense of presence in our community/communities. We live in a culture in Berlin where 70% of people have no spiritual belief. For almost 3 out of 4...

Hi Praying Friends,Thank you for praying for rain! It has finally rained in Berlin - after 40 days of no rain, we have gotten rain several times in the last week, including a thunderstorm and a long night of rain last night.Our son Caleb recently had...