At long last we've completed another newsletter. We shall be printing and sending copies by post to many of our friends and past guests but a copy is immediately available as a 4-page pdf document on the internet. To get your copy to read and print for others to read simple click the following:

www.haus-barnabas.com/html/welcome.html

There you will find the opportunity to click on the letter-heading (also given above) and get our Autumn 2010 Haus Barnabas News. We shall be more than happy for you to print copies for others who you think may be interested in the ministry and witness of Haus Barnabas in the Black Forest.

If you are beginning to think about Christmas Cards for 2010 we would invite you to click

www.mycharitycards.co.uk/haus-barnabas

You will find a selection of cards with Bible verses overprinted with our Friends of Haus Barnabas slogan. For every pack of 10 you buy at £3.50 per pack we receive £1.20 for the support of our work.

Thanks for your interest and it's not too late for an autumn holiday with us or how about Christmas or New Year!

News Update

This past Sunday our International service was almost entirely in German. Our two British guests both had a sufficient grasp of the language to follow it well and we had three German visitors. Tanja who often joins us when visiting her mother in Todtnauberg accompanied the singing on her cello together with Phyl on the key-board. The sermon was from Jeremiah 33 1-3, which encourages us to believe that even when things look hopeless we can know that God has everything under control. We are exhorted to call on Him in our bewildering circumstances and He promises to show us great and unimaginable things which we couldn't know through human logical thinking!
Our special rated 'Autumn Uplifts' at £230 per 7 days runs from 19th Sept to 31st October and we still have rooms available! During the week 12th - 18th October Geoff Carr a retired Counties evangelist from Essex will be leading devotions each evening under the theme 'Open my eyes Lord'. Why not come and support us here and find blessing from the Lord for yourself!

News Update

We have just completed a successful 'Reformation Week' in Haus Barnabas. The five participants took part enthusiastically in the evening sessions on our 'local' 16th century reformers, Zwingli, Bullinger, Oecolampadius and Bucer together with Erasmus who through his work on the Greek New Testament text was used by God to give such impetus to the revival of interest and study of the Holy Scriptures. We were privileged to have Canon Peter Cook with us, whose detailed knowledge of John Calvin added greatly to discussions after each evening's presentation. Visits were made to Zwingli's birth place in the Swiss Alps and the cities of Zürich and Basel. The photo above was taken outside the manse of the Swiss Reformed Church in Riehen-Dorf, Basel from where it's minister Pfarrer Daniel Holder gave us helpful information about the reformation in Basel as well as updating us on the situation within the Swiss Reformation Church today.

News Update

Our picture this week shows Steve Morley, evangelist and children's worker in Essex UK, with a group of the children from the village who came to the Bible Week in Haus Barnabas at the end of August. Over 5 mornings he looked at five N.T. characters whose lives were changed by Jesus. The children here are binding themselves up with paper as Lazarus would have been in bound in grave-clothes! We praise the Lord that the week was successful, as far as we can measure success, and that it might be the beginning of a regular children's club.
We, Len & Phyl, have enjoyed a brief holiday break in North Wales and are now back in Utzenfeld and are today expecting the arrival of guests for our Reformation Week here.
If you haven't been to Haus Barnabas this year, or even if you have, why not consider an Autumn Uplift' with us, or even a visit over Christmas or New Year! - for details see www.haus-barnabas.com/html/seasonal_prices.html