Christpolis

Hi Everybody!

Yesterday we have reached Goereme near Nevsehir…

Sure You don’t know where this region is situated.
You will find it on a map in the south of turkey, half-way between Ankara and Adana, 250 km away from the syrian border.

Goereme is a cave -town.

A lot of caves and tunnles are here, situated in amazing Grand-Canyon-like mountains.
It is incredible beautiful here, the area looks like landscapes from the movie “Lord of the Rings”.

The first christians also came to this region in times of heavy persecution and were protected there.
They just lived in the same caves where we are right now.
They were protected in God’s amazing creation, in his beautiful mountains, in his strong arms. That’s just the same feeling I have right now.
The last time was pretty hard, and when we came to this place, I knew God prepared it for us. Now we stay in a very nice cave-”castle” in a very beautiful nature with a lot of fruits, protected by our heavenly father.
Time to recover…

O.k., now a short summary about what happened so far:

In Istanbul Tom, Karen and Emma left the Convoy.
Tom had to go back to the U.K. Emma and Karen went by train to Israel, because Karen has to be back in the U.K. at the 18. of August. If she had continued to go with the Convoy she would have been able to stay in Israel only for one day…
These three were a great blessing for all of us.
We will see Emma again in one or two weeks in Israel, I hope.

Abdessamad, a very nice guy from morocco we know since two years, since one year Ivonnas husband, started to join the Convoy in Istanbul.

We left Istanbul last Sunday.

On the road again, the cooling system of the engine of the Ford Transit stopped working because of a broken rubber part and we fixed it on our own. But that didn’t work properly, so we needed to find a workshop. Our God never is too late, and another turkish “angel” brought us to a workshop south of Ankara where the system was repaired FOR FREE! Thank You, God!!!

But then our other car had problems with the cooling system, so it had to be repaired too, but this also was very cheap.

So, after a lot of cooling problems for our engines we arrived in Goereme yesterday.

Now we have to decide which way to take and how to get to Israel.
Got a lot of reliable infomation today. Syria seems to be safe, a lot of people told us, even the german office for foreign affairs.
So I guess we will recover another day in Goereme and might reach the Syrian border in 3 or 4 days.

Please pray for God’s protection and guidance, for our ability to listen to his voice, but most of all for possibilities to talk with people about Jesus.
We prayed for all the regions we already passed and had some contact with people, but still had only few possibilities to tell about Jesus.

But because of all the attacks the Convoy already went through on the one hand and the miracles we experienced on the other hand I believe that the Convoy is significant for the spiritual world.

Thank You!!!
God bless You!!!!!

Jonathan

P.S.:
Our bank account for donations
(Sorry, but we neither have the IBAN for the account nor the swift-code for the bank but only the german numbers for both)

Account-owner / Kontoinhaber: Clemens Rabe
Account-No. / Konto-Nr.: 145 099 901
Institute-Code / BLZ: 240 900 41
Institute: Volksbank Lüneburg

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