News update

Tom and Esther return to school and kindergarten this week. Tom beginning his second school year and Esther continuing at the village kindergarten. After six weeks of speaking essentially English this sudden re-immersion into their respective German-speaking environments can be quite traumatic. We have been praying for them. Tom also begins another session of football training with other youngsters in the village, this term on Thursday evenings. They both have local friends who they often play with outside of school hours and Deb encourages this as much as possible.
Emily who is helping us in the house for four months is a great favourite with the two children at the moment and this should be particularly helpful when Deb re-commences her English-teaching afternoon sessions shortly.
We have been pleased to have a guest from Bendigo in Australia this past weekend and others from the UK are joining her on Tuesday. We have shared our lives with more people than ever before these summer months and although the house has no 'empty' days before the beginning of November these next few weeks look like being a little less hectic as far as guests are concerned.
We pray that the following comment in our guest book may have been true for many of those who have been with us - 'Thank you for encouraging us through your life' - after all we see this as one of the more important reasons for the existence of Haus Barnabas.