Heading to Germany!

On June 8th, we arrive in Deutschland to serve with Church Resource Ministries there, after 7 years with CRM at the Hungarian-Serbian border. We have an apartment to rent in an old German home in the town of Kandern, SW Germany. We will be just 20 minutes from the Swiss border and large metro area of Basel, Switzerland. Our initial partnership focus is with the German Free Evangelical denomination, as they have invited us to support their pastors and leaders in starting new churches, in addition to supporting the growth of existing fellowships in the German State of Baden-Württemberg. Rob is always open to crossing borders, so there may some opportunity to venture into German-speaking Switzerland. We look forward to seeing how the Lord leads us forward!

Our new home - we will rent the first floor and finished basement of this house. Another family rents the top 2 floors in the long roof.

We will live on the sunny side of the Kandern valley - sun will rise into our front windows and we have our own little piece of yard to use!

We will attend the local Kandern Free Evangelical Church (renting building above), where we will work with Pastor Markus and his leaders.

At the annual Free Evangelical near Stuttgart, Rob connected with many leaders who are helping pursue the start of 100 new churches in 10 years. Rob discovered that there are many southern cities and towns that have very few, if any, living faith communities to bring hope and light.

Rob with nationwide Church Plant Director Dietrich. Great to have his invitation to come partner with leaders and communities in the South.

THE GIRLS' NEW SCHOOL!

This is the entrance to the Black Forest Academy school in Kandern where Sarah will enter 9th grade and Hannah 6th grade in August.

Walking downtown in our new town of Kandern.

Some of the February Black Forest landscape in the area.

The 3 Girls in Freiburg last spring when we visited the Black Forest area. Freiburg is the "capital" of southern Black Forest, and where Rob studied a semester in 1991 - 20 years ago!