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Through mycharitycards.co.uk we are able to supply a range of 22 different Christmas cards with a suitiable Bible verse and our slogan 'Friends of Haus Barnabas'. These are available in packs of 10 cards of the same design, of which the picture alongside is an example, for £3.50. (A charge for packing and postage is added per parcel, so ordering several packs is an economy.) For every pack ordered Haus Barnabas receives £1.20 via Bible in Action Trust.

Click: www.mycharitycards.co.uk/haus-barnabas

It has been good this past week to have had guests from Prague, Munich and Hartlepool, but the next weeks look to be quieter and Len & Phyl are due to be in the UK for the second half of November. We have Reunion and Information meetings in Haxby, York on Sat 20th and Basildon, Essex on Sat 27th November and will be leading a Bible study in Langley Park, Durham on Tuesday 23rd when we will also be giving an update of our work. It would be lovely to see you if you are in these areas.

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This week saw the beginning of winter on the hills around us. A sudden change from the beautiful autumn sunshine of the earlier part of the month. It has been good to have Geoff and Isobel Carr with us this past week. Geoff has been a Counties Evangelist in Essex for most of his working life. He gave us Bible ministry each evening and with fewer guests than we had expected and once the children were safely in bed all four of us benefited from this. Thank you Geoff. The picture was taken by Isobel during a bus ride up the Feldberg.

With winter looming and the prospect of real snow have you considered a winter skiing holiday, or simply coming to us for Christmas or New Year! Also don't forget you can support us through buying our charity Christmas cards.

www.mycharitycards.co.uk/haus-barnabas

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"As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease." Gen 8:22

On Sunday we thanked God afresh for His faithfulness in providing another harvest season and for all the good things has given us throughout the year. A simple colourful table display gave us a visual reminder of some of His provisions. Our sermon developed the theme of God's covenanted faithfulness, thinking particularly of the apostle Paul's firm persuasion that nothing can separate the believer from God's love in Christ Jesus. Rom 8: 38-39

The pumpkin was made into a delicious soup for supper!

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This past week we were introduced to the excitements of 'geocaching' by our grandchildren. The following website will tell you all about it www.geocaching.com but in a nutshell, hidden around the globe including our immediate area of the Black Forest are numerous 'caches', i.e. containers of varying sizes containing a logbook and perhaps other objects. The exact location of each cache is pinpointed using GPS technology through satellites. To play this 'treasure-hunt' game you need a hand-held GPS receiver into which you have down-loaded from the internet the exact location of hidden caches in your area. Your GPS will then lead you to within a few feet of the 'treasure'. Our first find was under rocks in the roots of a tree some yards off a footpath through the forest and took us a least 20 minutes of searching once we had found the location!
The game can provide considerable incentive to youngsters, and perhaps those not so young too, to exercise their legs as well as their minds and experience the joys of finding beauty spots and view points in less accessible places. We hope to to able to provide 'geocaching' as an option for families holidaying with us in the future.

Of course there are spiritual lessons to be learnt from the excercise and Jesus spoke of the Kingdom of heaven being like treasure hidden in a field. Matthew 13.44