Hamburg bound!

Well, I wanted to blog about the last week here before we head to another small town tomorrow. We are going to the city of Brandenburg tomorrow for the weekend. It's about an hour or so away from here, and we are going to a prayer house run by our new German friend from Jerusalem church. We will leave for Hamburg on Sunday and stay there for approximately 2 weeks.

I'm excited to see new cities, but sad to leave Berlin. We have a really nice YWAM base here, and we had great ministry as well. Monday we went back to park to give coffee and tea to drug dealers and others we met. A large group also prayer walked around the park again. The park is in between a mosque and a Buddist temple. We prayed for worshippers in these places to come to faith in Christ. We specifically prayed that the veil over their eyes & hearts would be removed. This time I went with one of the groups that handed out coffee & tea. We were able to talk to a handful of people. We met a young guy who was super open to us praying for him after we talked to him for about 15 minutes. He needed some direction in his life, so we prayed for opportunities for him to pursue his dreams in music and the arts. He spoke really good English & Spanish, so we could all communicate with him. I'm still amazed at how many languages the Europeans speak. We all went to lunch, then came back to the park to pray and worship where we put the stake in the ground. It was gone, but we knew what we had done in the spiritual realm. Some guys even came up there and before long they knew they were gone. One of the guys told his friend something like " we can't do this here." We could already tell that the atmosphere of the park was changing! While we were singing, we could faintly here a voice on a loud speaker. I'm not sure where it was coming from, but it sounded like a call to prayer or worship in Arabic. We wanted to keep singing to declare truth even as they were praying to their god. A group also went back to Teen Challenge. I was bummed that Gabby didn't come back. Her friend said she was sleeping. I met many friendly guys though, mostly from Lebanon, Lativia. Most of the people we met seemed to be okay with the fact that we were American. They even said Americans are friendly. A few Swedish folks came to give a mini sermon and the young girl sang a few songs. The staff were really impressed that the people stayed for the preaching and worship. One man even received Christ! What a way to finish the week out here! I'll write a bit more later...