Christpolis

Here I am to worship
Here I am to bow down
Here I am to say that You are my God
You are altogether worthy
altogether lovely
altogether wonderful to me.

Hello Everybody,

Last Thursday the Israel-Convoy reached Istanbul.
Right now we are at the frontier - or better: at the bridge between the western and the arabic world.

the bridge…
this is exactly what we want to be:
a bridge between people, between cultures.
But this is only possible, if people get in touch with the living god, with the god who sacrificed himself for us - he built the bridge already.
So we have to convince people that God is love and forgiveness.
And our testimony is only believeable, if people can see the love of jesus in us.
If we serve them.

o.k., what happenened the last days?

Thursday we arrived in Turkey.
The problems with the engine-starter of the Ford Transit continued… Right on the highway during a traffic jam the motor stopped… so while the Transit was still rolling, I jumped out, pushed the car - and fortunately the engine worked again.
it is a bad feeling to push a car on a highway during a traffic jam, but between cars that don’t stop and continue driving…

One hour later we arrived in Istanbul and the problems got stronger…
During another traffic jam, while driving the Transit I suddenly discovered that the foot-brakes had TOTALLY stopped to work!
So I had only a handbrake that worked not very well… most of the time I had to use the motor as a brake.
There was no chance to stop the Transit and to bring it into a workshop or garage…
And we had to hurry to get to the airport, where another friend hat just arrived in order to join the convoy.
…and it is hard to drive a little van with broken foot-brakes and a broken starter through the traffic jam in Istanbul in the evening…

So we prayed and continued driving to the airport, met our friend and stopped for the night in a quarter near the airport… I was full of sweat after having stopped the engine.

“…just before they call me, I will answer“, says our beautiful God, and exactly that happened…

Just a few minutes after having stopped a man came and told us that he will bring us to a workshop the next day…
In the morning the guy woke us up and brought us to a workshop. Two old and very experienced mechanics started to repair the Transit, and, unbelievable but true, after two hours we had a new car. A brillant working brake, a brillant working starter, a brillant working clutch… And they repaired also the starter from our other van - the VW-Bus.
For only 140 Euro altogether…
Remember:
In Germany we checked the brakes in a high-tech-workshop and they told us that the brakes are alright…
And the mechanics from the Ford-Garages in Luneburg (Germany), Sibiu and Bukarest (both Romania) couldn’t solve the problems, had no new parts to replace the old ones and knew actually nothing…
And in only 2 or 3 minutes two old and experienced mechanics from Istanbul found all problems and needed only 2 hours to get the new parts for the engine and to fix the stuff.

Yesterday we visited the famous huge blue mosque. Emma started to cry in the mosque and some muslim guys from this mosque came and asked for her needs. They were very concerned and really wanted to help her. They thaught she was a muslim woman. Emma said that she is a christian. The muslims stayed friendly !
Let’s pray for these muslims. May God let shine his beauty in their hearts. May they see that christians are not western Imperialists, that christians are here to serve them and to live with them, even to learn from them, not to dominate them. God’s Love is the strongest power against Islamic Jeehad, Antisemitism and western Imperialism and capitalism.

o.k., so far. The next 4-6 days we will cross turkey and arrive at the Syrian border.

Thank God for the amazing miracles:

-Emmas meeting in the blue mosque

-the protection God gave:
imagine what would have happened if the brakes had stopped working in the bulgarian mountains or on the highway- we would have been dead - but they stopped exactly in the 5 % of our way where there was no danger…

-his leading to these amazing mechanics

-the unity amongst us grows - thank You, Lord Jesus!!!

Please pray:

- that God shows us what to do: when to start to Syria and Israel, or, in case he doesn’t want us to leave turkey (because of the war) that he gives us a clear sign to stop us

-for the Jewish people, that they can see Jesus and his love

-for the Muslim world, that they can discover God’s amazing love he revealed in his son

-that god shows us people with open hearts

-that God’s love is shining through us and we can be significant for our environment

- for protection

- continue praying for unity

- for donations

Thank You!
God bless ya!

Jonathan

P.S.:
Thanx for all donations

- we still need them

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