Saturday, June 10, 2023

May Blessings

I had intended to publish a post earlier, but you all know how it goes sometimes!

Just some highlights: At the beginning of May, I spent a long weekend in Eupen. I really like being in this little town, as it is the capital of the German part of Belgium, and of course everybody speaks my mother tongue there. It's also close to Aachen in the very west of Germany, where I was able to spend the Sabbath. The rest of the time I did some hiking, attended a nice concert at the local Lutheran church, and also did some work for our upcoming German camp meeting in August. 

On 20 May, we had the annual Health Emphasis Sabbath from the Inter-European Division. So it was my turn to give a sermon that morning. I spoke about the urgency of "Putting the Right Arm to Work". If you are interested, you can watch the recording on YouTube (starts around 1:03).

Another great blessing has been my new gardening opportunity. Given the fact that I'm allowed to plant only a rather small part of the garden behind the house I live, I'm thankful that I got acquainted to a nice lady in the neighbourhood whom I can help planting a vegetable garden. It's such a blessing to be able to grow your own food!

The last thing I would like to share for today is my experience with the ADRA Food Truck (you can find out more about it here) It's a truck that is stationed in Brussels city once a week, giving out free vegetarian food to homeless people. Together with three others, I had the opportunity to serve these people for one afternoon. We had good fun, as you can see from the pictures below!

All in all, I'm very grateful for all these open doors, and for so many opportunities to share the gospel. I haven't mentioned our new church building project yet, but I will do so soon. Stay tuned!

ADRA Social FoodTruck


After serving over 100 meals


The tomato plants 

Eggplants